Abstract :
Some 200 industrialists, heads of research departments, patent lawyers, and engineers engaged in a spirited discussion of “Invention and the Engineers´ Relation to It” at the second forum of American Engineering Council, held in Detroit, Mich., November 11, 1938. The forum, in subject and in time, was scheduled so that the viewpoint of the engineering and allied professions might be expressed with regard to invention as a contribution to the hearings held in Washington during December, under the direction of the so-called Temporary National Economic Committee, sometimes called in brief the “Monopoly Committee.” It may be recalled that Senator O´Mahoney the chairman of this committee, made a vigorous plea for the Federal incorporation of business enterprise, at the annual meeting of AEC in Washington in January 1938.
