Tools of destiny

Scientists, inventors and engineers are working in an age when practical development follows rapidly the discovery of a new truth in science. In the eyes of electrical explorers, the electron is the energy mite which enfolds an ever-enlarging vista, and radio and television are merely indicative of what will soon come. In a recent address, Dr. E. F. Alexanderson expressed his conviction that the power industry cannot long remain untouched by the new discoveries in electricity. It is waiting until the new knowledge has been widened and matured so that it can be put to use on a larger scale, and this is the real significance of the excursion of so many electrical men into radio and television. Electric power as it is known so far is only an introduction, and the finished chapters are still to be written as the evolution in the art progresses.