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WITH the object of bringing young people from secondary schools into contact with some aspects of progressive science and its applications, the British Science Guild arranged last year for two lectures by Mr. C. C. Paterson, director of the research laboratories of the General Electric Company, to pupils from secondary schools for girls in the London area. The lectures were delivered at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the subject was “The Electron Liberated; its Industrial Consequences”. Sir Albert Howard, the honorary secretary of the Guild, has provided for the continuance of this successful enterprise under the title of the Gabrielle Howard Memorial Lecture; and on Tuesday and Wednesday last, May 26 and 27, Prof. W. L. Bragg delivered this lecture upon the subject of “Telegraphs and Telephones”. The lecture on the first day was to boys from London Secondary Schools, and on the second to girls from London Secondary Schools. On both occasions, the lecture was given at the Royal Institution, by kind permission of the Managers. Through the courtesy of Messrs. G. Bell and Sons, the young people who attended the lectures were able to take away with them a pamphlet containing a reprint of the chapter on telegraphs and telephones from Prof. Bragg's book on “Electricity” just published by Messrs. Bell.
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Lectures to Secondary School Pupils. Nature 137, 897 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137897c0
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