Abstract :
FOR the ninth annual meeting of the National Research Council´s committee on electrical insulation, some 110 or more chemists, physicists, electrical engineers, and others interested in the ramified subject of dielectric research gathered in Cambridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 5–7, 1936. Bound together by a common interest in the improvement of electrical insulating materials and methods, this loosely organized group has grown by wholly natural processes from the meager beginning initiated 8 years or so ago by a small group of farsighted leaders who saw the subject as one of fundamental importance to the electrical industry. These annual meetings, in addition to serving as a medium for the exchange of new information and for the frank discussion of new problems and new phases of old problems, also have served effectively as something of a proving ground for almost everything within the scope of the subject from new theories to new synthetic products.
