Work of the committee on industrial preparedness

The following letter recently written by Thomas A. Edison, Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, gives a comprehensive statement of the work accomplished by the Industrial Preparedness Committee which, as announced in the March 1916 Proceedings, was appointed at the invitation of the President of the United States to assist the Naval Consulting Board in collecting data for use in organizing the manufacturing resources of the country for the public service in case of emergency. The names of A. I. E. E. representatives on this committee were published in the May, 1916 Proceedings.