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IN many of the addresses and discussions at the recent meeting of the British Association at Aberdeen, attention was given to the social and economic problems which have arisen out of the greater command of Nature placed in the hands of man by the creative ingenuity of the engineer. The advent of power production has resulted in a profound change in the character of industry, and for this reason alone scientific workers, using the term in the broadest sense, should be rightly concerned with the social con sequences of scientific discovery and invention. This approach from the engineering or mechanical side, and particularly the endeavour to assess the contribution of what has been termed the engineering mind to questions of distribution and con sumption as it has been applied in the field of production, tends to obscure the fact that the attention of science has been focused on social questions with almost equal power from a very different point of view.
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Industrial and Social Interactions. Nature 134, 549–550 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134549a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134549a0