Abstract :
THE eighth annual meeting and conference of the committee on electrical insulation, National Research Council held October 17 and 18, 1935, at Pittsfield, Mass., as guests of the General Electric Company, was unusually successful and interesting. It embraced 3 technical sessions in which 24 papers and progress reports of research were discussed, an evening lecture by Dr. Irving Langmuir, and high voltage demonstrations and inspections in the research laboratories and plants of the General Electric Company. Seventy-six members were registered and a number of local visitors participated. The following news report was prepared by A.I.E.E. Past-President J. B. Whitehead, long-time chairman of the N.R.C. insulation committee.
