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AMFR. W. J. U. WOOLCOCK, general manager of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, delivered a striking address to the annual conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions which was held at Plymouth on June 4–7. Dealing with technical education and industry, he illustrated his theme by reference to chemistry, pure and applied. With this in mind, he traced the growth of the British chemical industry, which is now, he said, among the six greatest industries of the country; £200,000,000 capital is invested in it; it employs a quarter of a million workers and is exceedingly well organised. Not very long ago its range was small and, in Great Britain, relatively unimportant: to-day it provides the largest field for the scientific chemist. It has made greater strides in its post-War development than any other British industry, and is of such a wide character that it is difficult to set limits to its boundaries.
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Chemical Industry and Technical Institutions. Nature 119, 942 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119942a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119942a0