Abstract
WE are accustomed to hear little but praise of the German University system of education. There is, however, a reverse to the shield. While admitting the value of the training received by the University student in pure chemistry, the author of this work points out that only in a few of the higher technical schools is any systematic instruction given concerning the employment of machinery in manufacturing chemistry. The consequence is that many young chemists find, at the commencement of their practical career, that they have either to laboriously collect, from many scattered ani not easily accessible sources, the information they require, or perforce remain mere copyists of the methods of others, for lack of the knowledge which might enable them to intelligently use the mechanical appliances best suited to attain their ends.
Die Maschinellen Hilfsmittel der Chemischen Technik.
Von A. Parnicke, Civil-ingenieur, vorm. Ober-ingenieur der Chemischen Fabrik Griesheim. (Frankfurt: H. Bechhold, 1894.)
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T., W. Die Maschinellen Hilfsmittel der Chemischen Technik. Nature 51, 412 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051412b0
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