Abstract :
With “production for peace” as its keynote, the 68th annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was held in Atlantic City, N. J., December 1–5, 1947. The onward march of industry toward new and better products, more efficient methods, and greater economy of production, and the engineers´ part in that progress, was the subject of many of the 80 technical sessions which featured some 240 authors and speakers. This 68th meeting of the ASME presented a marked contrast to the group of a few hundred engineers who constituted the membership nearly seven decades ago, when the society was formed. ASME membership now stands at more than 23,000.
