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THE Physical Society's twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus was held in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, on January 7-9. Eighty firms exhibited their products in the Trade Section, in which many new instruments were shown for the first time. There were to be seen examples of recent applications of physics to a wide range of industrial problems, in addition to improved forms of the more usual physical instruments and apparatus. Four firms exhibited scientific and technical books. The Research and Experimental Section was again divided into two groups: Group A, illustrating recent research, contained exhibits contributed by research associations, Government laboratories and industrial and private laboratories, while Group B consisted of lecture and instructional experiments in physics. The annual competition in craftsmanship and draughtsmanship, held in conjunction with the Society's annual exhibition, attracted some eighty entries from apprentices and learners employed by exhibiting firms, or firms which have exhibited at previous exhibitions. The entries for this competition were on view and attracted a great deal of attention. Discourses were given on two of the evenings; on January 7, Mr. R. A. Bull lectured on “Some Instruments used in Recording Sound on Films”, and on January 8, Mr. R. W. Paul lectured on “Electrical Measurements before 1886”. We understand that these lectures are being published in the special Exhibition Number (February) of the Journal of Scientific Instruments.
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The Physical Society's Exhibition. Nature 137, 59–60 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137059c0
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