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February 1960, Volume 52, NO.2 APPLIED JOURNALS, ACS 1 155 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington 6, D. C. Director o f Publications, C. B. Larrabee Editorial Director, Richard L. Kenyon Executive Editor, James M. Crowe Assistant to the Director of Publications, Joseph H. Kuney Assistant fo the Editorial Director, Robert F. Gould INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERINGCHEMISTRY Editor, Will H. Shearon, Jr. EDITORIAL HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON 6, D. C. I155 Sixteenth St., N.W. Phone REpublic 7-3337 Teletype WA 23 Associate Editors: G. Gladys Gordon, Stella Anderson, Katherine 1. Biggs, Robert J. Riley, Ruth M. Howorth, Eugenia Keller, Sue M. Solliday, William H. Gay, Ruth Reynard Assistant Editors: Robert J. Kelley, Molvina B. Preiss, Joe H. Olin Editorial Assisfants: Katherine H. Ginnone, Virginia E. Stewart, S. S. Rogers, Lorraine M. Bertuzzi Layout and Producfion: Melvin D. Buckner (Art); Betty V. Kieffer, Leroy Corcoran, John V. Sinnett BRANCH EDITORIAL OFFICES CHICAGO 1, ILL. Room 926,36 South Wabash Ave. Teletype CG:725 Phone Slate 2-5148 Associate Editors: Howard J. Sanders, Chester Plocek, James H. Krieger HOUSTON 2, TEX., 71 8 Melrose Bldg. Phone FAirfox 3-7107 Teletype HO 72 Associate Editors: Bruce F. Greek, Earl V. Anderson NEW YORK 16 N. Y., 2 Park Ave. Phone ORegon 9-1646 Teletype NY 1-4726 Associote Edifors: William Q. Hull, Harry Stenerson, David M. Kiefer, D. Gray Weaver, Walter S. Fedor, Laurence J. White, Louis A. Agnello SAN FRANCISCO 4, CALIF. 703 Mechanics’ Institute Bldg., 57 Post St. Phone EXbrook 2-2895 Teletype SF 549 Associate Editor: Richard H. Newhall Assistant Editor: Joseph Sturchio EASTON, PA. 20th and Northampton Sts. Phone Blackburn 8-911 1 Teletype ESTN Pa 7048 Associate Editor: Charlotte C. Sayre Assistant Editor: Joyce A. Richards Editorial Assistants: Elizabeth R. Rufe, Barbara A. Conover EUROPEAN OFFICE Bush House, Aldwych, London Phone Temple Bar 3605 Cable JIECHEM Associate Editor: Albert S. nester Assistant Editor: Brandon F. Somerville Contributing Editors: H. Carl Bauman, Robert F. Wall, James B. Weaver, W. S. Connor Advisory Board: R. 1. Bateman, A. S. Brunies, David M. Clark, James M. Church, Louchlin M. Currie, Joseph C. Elgin, Sam S. Emison, E. J. Fox, George Harrington, Gustave Heinemann, Rafael Katzen, Joseph H. Koffolt, F. Drew Mayfield, George Thodos, Richard C. Waugh
I/EC’s Annual Reviews
- A Turning Point
THISISSUE is different in a significant way from those of the past fourteen years. You will find in it four of the familiar Annual Reviews of chemical engineering developments : Crystallization, Size Reduction, Materials Handling, and Process Control and Automation. Each month there will be a number of these reviews. After a bit of inconsistency due to rescheduling, each review will cover a period of approximately a year previous, as has been our practice in the past. Lt’hy this change? As with all our editorial changes-to better serve today’s reader. Fourteen years ago I/EC’s editors said, “With this, the first 1946 issue, we are beginning a new service for the chemical engineers-an interpretation of progress in unit operations. We hope to continue this feature as a special lead section every January. T h e articles cover all important theoretical and practical advances scored during a previous period and represent a specialist’s opinion of the significant happenings in a field of chemical engineering.” T h e next year we added Materials of Construction, and in 1948 Unit Processes. Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering made a foursome in 1953. By this time we had quite a package, spread in four issues. Believing that readers would welcome this material bound separately, so that it could be easily kept at hand for reference, we combined these into two supplements, in March and September in 1955. For five years this pattern has been well received. During all those years the literature was literally exploding, and reader habits and interests have continued to change. Tl’hen these reviews were first started the editors’ introductory notes were sprinkled with such phrases as “concise review of developments,” “pith) , terse, resumes.” TVe wandered somewhat from this concept as the literature increased, but returned with a very positive approach to screening, interpretation, and evaluation, in 1955. And each year we have tightened still more. Reader research by I / E C and by other groups in industry, academic life, and government, indicate a definitely increased interest in m z e w s as such; the sheer weight of reading material today almost dictates feeding in doses, if reviews are to be most useful. Hence our decision to abandon the supplements, and to make each issue of I / E C one in which specialists in certain areas will have detailed interest, and readers who wish a bird’s eye view of several fields will find it. There is another distinct advantage. Some fields have developed more slowly than others. We have in the past scheduled them as biennial and triennial reviews. SVith this new program we will publish each yearly, even as short a review as a single page, so that the reader may be abreast now. I n coming months we will also continue the service begun last year with certain I/EC articles, and extended to the Annual Reviews with the Friedel-Crafts Acylations review in September 1959. Selected reviews, notably shortened, will accurately highlight a n area, and will contain a small number of selected references. All references examined by the author will be available for sale, from I/EC, at $1 .OO per review. This is indeed an unusual service, and one which has never been provided before by anyone.
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