Om Materialprøvningens Udvikling i Norden
Og om Statsprøveanstaltens Virksomhed

A. The Development of Methods of Testing Materials in the North. At the International congress for testing materials which the French government held in Paris during the universal exhibition in 1900 there was presented a rather great and richly illustrated work of Mr. Fremont, the high esteemed civil engineer, about the development of testing materials1). With Mr. Frémont’s permis- sion an abstract of this was rendered in the periodical of the Da- nish Society of civil Engineers »Ingeniøren«2) in an essay by Pro- fessor Hannover, the undersigned director of the States Testing Laboratory in Copenhagen, who at the same time carried on the history of the testing of materials up to the present. In this essay there was of course not much space left for men- tioning the development in the North which taken together with the general development has been of only little importance. But on this opportunity where technical men from all coun- tries are gathered in Denmark there might however be some rea- son to show what share the North especially Denmark has in the development of testing materials. I. Poul Würtz. In the above-mentioned splendid work of Fremont it is stated, quoting P. S. Girard: Traité analytique de la résistance des solides, i) Évolution des méthodes et des appareils employes pour l’essai des matéri- aux de construction. 2) »Ingeniøren« 1908, S. 167. 8