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A SCHEME is on foot in Paris to establish an Institute of Applied Optics, with the object of securing closer co-operation between theory and practice in the optical trade. It has been suggested, according to an article in La Nature, that the scope of the institute should fall into three sections, viz. (i) a college of optics, providing a thorough theoretical and practical training for opticians, and promoting among its students a taste for optical research; (ii) a central optical laboratory, where tests of glasses and optical instruments would be made for men of science, public bodies, and manufacturers, and research work of general interest carried out; and (iii) a special trade school in which the students could obtain a thorough training in the practical branches of the trade.
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HODGSON, E. An Institute of Applied Optics for France . Nature 99, 236 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099236a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099236a0