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Industrial research foundations

APR 01, 1950
Scientific investigation is now so costly, the little fellow with a big problem often cannot solve it by himself. But he can get packaged research from the increasingly active industrial research foundations whose mobile structure is geared to handle all kinds of applied research.
Haldon A. Leedy
Francis W. Godwin

The development of industrial research foundations as an important force in the advance of applied science is unquestionably one of the major contributions of this century in the field of technological progress. Their appearance on the scene—in the United States at least—ended an era of hit‐or miss invention and unorganized technical development characterized by the free lance investigator in his attic or backyard workshop.

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Haldon A. Leedy, Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Francis W. Godwin, International Division for Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Volume 3, Number 4

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