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N But despite the obscurity of their source, ideas must concern us
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all, for technical people are paid at least in part for having them. Two essential ingredients seem almost always to precede the birth of an idea. One is a rather extensive storehouse of facts-scientific, technological, economic, mathematical, for example. The other is the willingness to cast and recast these facts into different frames of reference, much as one by turning a kaleidoscope creates an infinite variety of designs from a few pieces of glass. We comment on this because we have in this issue several examples of the various frames of reference in which facts can be cast. Alan Michaels’ introduction to the Nucleation Symposium and Sydney Ross’s summary of the Interface Symposium deal with the phenomenological approach to physical behavior which these two symposia represent. The Essenhigh-Froberg-Howard study of “Combustion Behavior of Small Particles” is a re-examination of proved data in the light of the latest theoretical and mathematical insights. The KlineKollonitsch survey brings together facts which have the industrial use of catalytic tungsten in common. For any or all of these, applicability to new problems must stem from the mind of the reader-he must turn his own technical kaleidoscope. One obvious conclusion that can be drawn from these considerations is that an industrially employed technical man must ruthlessly drive himself to keep up with advancing technology or be left behind. He must constantly add to his store of facts and seek new fruitful ways to correlate the facts. This is hard work, a reality frequently reflected in plaintive cries of “too many journals” and “not enough time to read.” Some of these cries are merely excuses for not exerting the required effort. But the majority are a measure of the magnitude of the task, as the volume of facts, techniques, and experience that relates to industrial technical problems mounts. But nothing of value comes without effort, and those who have expended the effort and reaped the rewards testify that there is no better feeling than seeing your brainchild become a thing of beauty--or of profit.
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SEPTEMBER 1965
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