Excerpt from Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting, Vol. 18: Held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 25-28, 1918 Another great leader, Judge Gary, took an important step when he started his steel - makers' dinners, and brought those who had been intent chiefly on cutting each others throats into aiding each other. And now we propose another step, that wherever feasible, the industries shall not only permit such disclosure and discus sion of their discoveries as occur at the meetings of technical societies, but shall cooperate in making their discoveries. The advantages of this plan are naturally inversely as the Size of the individual corporation. Cooperation in research between small companies lessens the disadvantage of their smallness. To corporations so large that they feel but lightly the cost of their researches, the advantages of cooperation will weigh correspondingly lightly against its apparent disadvantage of transferring capital in the form of knowledge to others who may not repay in full. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.