American engineering standards committee

The 1923 Year Book of the A. E. S. C., which has just come off the press, shows that great progress has been made during the last year in standardization projects affecting electrical industries. Of the thirty-five standards thus far approved by the A. E. S. C., the following eleven are of special interest to the electrical industries: National Electrical Code; Electrical Safety Code; Code for Electricity Meters; Automobile Headlighting Specifications; Code of Lighting Factories, Mills and other Work Places; Safety Code for the Protection of the Heads and Eyes of Industrial Workers; Illuminating Engineering Nomenclature and Photometric Standards; Methods for Battery Assay of Copper; Specifications for Electrolytic Copper Wire Bars, Cakes, Slabs, Billets, Ingots and Ingot Bars; Specifications for Lake Copper Wire Bars, Cakes Slabs, Billets, Ingot and Ingot Bars; and Specifications for Soft or Annealed Copper Wire.