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"Are we to go down in history as the generation termined during the next ten years. We men of science,
which twice had offered to it the greatest opportunity accustomed to planning on a basis of facts and control
in the history of mankind, and twice refused it in of Nature's laws, have an opportunity to assist others
selfish stupidity, or are we to be recorded as the genera- toward a realization that there is a scientific way to
tion which fought and won the world's last and great- design all affairs of men, not merely their buildings,
est war, and established the world's first enduring bridges and radios. The scientific way is constructive,
peace ?" not destructive, and leads to more joy and even more
The answers to those questions will be largely de- profit. Let us show the way.

CORRECTION
"Theory of Antennas of Arbitrary Size and Shape"
S. A. SCHELKUNOFF

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Correction z

S. A. Schelkunoff, whose paper, "Theory of An-

tennas of Arbitrary Size and Shape," which appeared 0
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on pages 493 to 521 in the September, 1941, issue of

the PROCEEDINGS, has brought to the attention of the j(w
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so-
editors an error in Fig. 9 of his paper. This is an iso-
lated error and does not affect either the reactance CL~~~~~~P
0~~~~~ ASELE GH L RAl

formula or other formulas and curves depending on it. N RA IN

The corrected figure is shown to the right. I~HAS
LE G H L

FIG. 9-The real and the imaginary parts of the "transformed"

output impedance K2/Zg= G(L) +iF(L), where L =27,1/A\.

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