Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society

The status of electrochemistry is evident in the first volumes of the Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society, Philadelphia, 1902 et seq. See also Frederick Becket s 1937 article and pp. 287-293 of Martha Trescott s book [11]. 

Trans. Amer. Electrochem. Soc. Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society, New York. 

The journal Electrochemical Industry, published in Philadelphia, proposed to fill the need for an authoritative exponent of electrochemical science and its various applications (III, [Roeber], 1902). Later that year, J. W. Richards opened the Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society with the following declaration Differentiation and specialization are the watchword, now, of all progress, - industrial, scientific, philosophical. The day is past, we all acknowledge, when one man. .. can know all that is to be known the day is also past when one scientific society can cover satisfactorily the whole field of scientific research----[T]he analogue of the specialist in... 

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