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THE British Science Guild has recently organised a series of lectures on science which are intended to bring before the pupils of secondary schools some of the remarkable advances in scientific knowledge and in its applications to everyday life which are being made at the present time. The first two lectures were delivered in March to girls from London secondary schools by Mr. C. C. Paterson, director of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Co., Ltd., Wembley, and have now been issued by the Guild as a pamphlet (Pp. 20. Is.) entitled “The Electron Liberated; its Industrial Consequences”. They deal with the emission of electrons from hot and illuminated surfaces and the uses made of them in modern electrical engineering, in particular in the production of light. The mysterious dual character of the electron as a missile and a group of waves is not forgotten, and the necessity for more and better knowledge of its properties is insisted on. The Guild is to be congratulated on the inaugural lecturer, to whom thousands of electrical engineers listened with such pleasure on the subject last year. The sooner other schools can have the benefit of lectures of this type, the better it will be for our future citizens.
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Science in Everyday Life and the Schools. Nature 135, 647–648 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135647d0
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