Communication-Past and Present

Pointing out that when the A.I.E.E. was founded in 1884 telegraphy was 40 years old and telephony 8 years old, the author traces briefly the significant developments and tremendous growth of electrical communication and the significance and importance of the parallel growth of the Institute. ``Both grew out of the extension of our knowledge of certain laws of nature, and both were encouraged in their growth by the social and economic results that were possible from the application of electricity.´´ The record of 50 years of communication development is traced through a half century of Institute publications.