INTRODUCING NEW INVENTIONS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21456, 24 April 1935, Page 12

INTRODUCING NEW INVENTIONS

AMERICAN PROPOSALS SCIENTISTS CO-OPERATE I WASHINGTON, March 26. The establishment of a non-profit organisation to conduct scientific and social research and eliminate, as far as possible, the time-lag between the perfection of scientific ideas and their introduction to the general life of the country was announced to-day by a group of Washington scientists and laymen. The name of the organisation is Research Associates, Inc., chartered under the laws of Delaware. It plans to patent, sell, manufacture, and operate its discoveries, whether obtained by purchase, invention, or „ , A maximum of 15 members oi the corporation and a minimum of seven is established in the charter.

"The corporation springs from the rapidly growing recognition by scientists and social-minded laymen that there is too great a lag between the perfecting of ideas by scientists and t'neir introduction into the common life of the country where their benefits may be enjoyed by the many," said the announcement.

"We believe that the present period of extreme flux in American social patterns caused by the depression offers an especially hopeful opportunity to attempt the application of processes whereby the levels of community living may be materially improved. "We believe: inventions, scientific discoveries, and all creative achievements of individual members of society should not be restricted in their use for the common good by practices and which may in the past have seemed necessary in the evolving of American life. We hold that these achievements should be brought as freely and directly as possible into the main currents of human experience. "We call particular attention to the paragraph in our charter which authorises us to co-operate not only with any individual or any private agency, but with any public or governmental agency in the enhancement of social values through technical, scientific, and social-economic research.

"Wo have already conferred with various governmental agencies and can foresee the possibility of an immediate and increasing field of usefulness in that direction."