Responsibilities of electrical engineers in making appraisals

In approaching this highly involved subject, I desire to call your attention to the wonderful achievements of our profession. Broadly, our profession is little more than thirty years old. It is true that telegraphy in its various applications and other similar branches had reached a great development at the date I consider as having been that of the birth of the electrical engineering profession in its modern sense. It is also true that the telephone at that time had come into existence as an achieved invention, but it was then purely an invention and lacking in the vast refinements and additions which have made it the huge engine of commerce and intimate feature of our modern life today. In the brief period of from thirty to thirty-four years, the profession of electrical engineering as applied to the generation, the transportation and the utilization of large quantities of electricity has come into existence.