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THERE are few documents which present a more comprehensive picture of the manifold ways in which scientific research is applied, not only to industrial problems but also to the service of our daily needs, than the annual reports of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. All the major needs of the population are touched by the activities of the Department—food and clothing, air and water supply, heating and lighting, communications and transport, housing and building—in each of these spheres science is making important contributions, and promoting not material developments alone but also the solution of many problems which menace the national development and health. There is no department of State in which the beneficial influence of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is not felt, and it is probable that no proportion of the national income is more profitably spent than the comparatively small sum of £711,200 (gross) or £536,746 (net) which represents the expenditure of this Department for the year ending Mar. 31, 1930.
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Research in the Modern State*. Nature 127, 559–561 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127559a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127559a0