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A CONFERENCE on lighting, space heating and hot water supply in low-cost housing, arranged by the Housing Centre, 13 Suffolk Street, S.W.I, was held on May 25 and 26. In the opening address, Lord Elton referred to cheapness, efficiency and health requirements as the main directives in modern low-cost house building and contrasted them with the durability, dignity and individuality of the Tudor period. In the discussion that followed, Prof. Patrick Abercrombie, who was in the chair, pointed out that standardisation can be applied to desirable as well as undesirable features, and other contributors suggested that perhaps dignity and individuality can now be transferred from the individual house to a planned estate as a whole. Sir Richard Paget, in his address as chairman of the business part of the Conference, gave a broad view of some of the avenues opened by scientific research in the utilisation of our national fuel assets, and pointed out several cases of present wastage. He directed attention to Sir Richard Gregory's remarks at the Royal Institution on the mission of science in the changing world of to-day. He also stressed the urgent need of an impartial investigation of the monetary system, and ended by pointing out the value of technical conferences in bringing together experts and enabling them to synthesise their ideas into one connected whole.
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Lighting and Heating Research. Nature 137, 899 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137899a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137899a0