39. Scientific Giant

To Helmholtz, medicine, music, physics and chemistry were all part of the day's work. From this we can learn that in working on any problem we should be able to call upon all of the different fields of development for assistance just as a carpenter reaches for his hammer, his saw or his plane.

If such remarkable contributions to man's progress can be made by using information from different branches of science, and since we do not always have such brilliant men as Helmholtz, it is important that we have workers in all the different fields when we undertake a new problem. The correlation of such information to a single purpose is what makes modern industrial research so valuable to every phase of human activity. ●



Short Stories of Science and Invention A Collection of Radio Talks by Charles F. Kettering INDEX		*39.* *Scientific Giant* To Helmholtz, medicine, music, physics and chemistry were all part of the day's work. From this we can learn that in working on any problem we should be able to call upon all of the different fields of development for assistance just as a carpenter reaches for his hammer, his saw or his plane. If such remarkable contributions to man's progress can be made by using information from different branches of science, and since we do not always have such brilliant men as Helmholtz, it is important that we have workers in all the different fields when we undertake a new problem. The correlation of such information to a single purpose is what makes modern industrial research so valuable to every phase of human activity. ●