Basic Research for Motion Pictures

Clyde R. Keith

It has been pointed out many times that engineering progress depends directly on basic research. Engineering is largely the application of scientific principles to the solution of practical problems. When new basic principles are discovered, engineering skill rapidly transforms these new ideas into things of value to both industry and consumer in the form of better or cheaper products. But when the available fund of basic information has been worked over for twenty years or more, the engineering “advances” are very apt to be reduced to gadgets, fancy knobs, and other trimmings which are of little real value even from a sales standpoint.

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Published
1950-02
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J11352