Textile research institute

• Book ID: 104133694
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 63 KB
• Volume: 237
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(44)90207-3

✦ Synopsis

The efforts to establish a central organization for textile research in the United States, which have gradually gathered support over a period of years, and in which the Bureau has played an important part, were crystallized at the annual meeting of the Textile Research Institute in New York on November I8. The plan of the Institute outlined at that meeting provides for: (I) Coverage of all branches of the textile industry, and all fibers; (2) location of the Institutes' laboratories near New York; (3) development of a program covering fundamental research, applied research, a graduate school, and information service, etc. ; (4) raising of a research fund of $3oo,ooo a year for five years, or $I,5oo,ooo plus a capital fund of $5oo,ooo.

Dr. Milton Harris, director of research for the Textile Foundation at the Bureau, is to serve also as director of research for the Institute. William D. Appel, chief of the Bureau's textile section, is chairman of the Applied Research Committee of the Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors.