MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933.
Engineering & Building.
DECORATIVE IDEA EXPLAINED
Contrast Of Various Colours Suggested.
The modern decorator has decided that, although a complete contrast of colour in walls and woodwork le no longer to be commended. the room that in treated entirely in ons shade leaves something to be sired in the way of variety.
THE
CHINA MALLA
WORLD'S GREATEST 600,000 LB. OF
ENGINEER
Centenary Of Richard Trevithick Shortly
FLUCTUATIONS
OF FORTUNE
ICE TO COOL
More Inventions
*.
BIG BUILDING New Railway Switch.
Empire Building Has Unique System.
30-DAY TEST MADE
New York.
J
A 30-day fest has revealed that
a daily refrigerating capelty equal
Month by month, new and won derful devices are brought into use: to save time and work on the Bri- tish railways.
To-day the boilers of engines cican themselves out automatically and trains on the railway lines to the freezing of 10 ice-staking themselves control colour light-sig- rinks the size of Madison Square (nals. The story of the life of Trevi-, Bramah's hydraulic press, the paper-Garden's famous hockey arena will He thinks the perfect compro thick, the centenary of whose death making machine of Louis Robert, be used to air-condition
de.
the new
mise is to "find" the lines of the is about to be commemorated, re- and the ateam-driven printing British Empire Building in Rocke-which fasten ught the bolts
on
There an portable machines
mouldings in a different colour. He calls a very important chapter in the machine of Koenig, all belong to the feller Centre.
sloepera, and electric welding ap- may admit that he prefers wood-history of engineering. When he same era.
The British building is said to paratus which will build up new work altogether free from mould-was born, the tide of the mechani- But in spite of this increase in be the first structure in the world steel on rails worn at the points ings, but where there exist he becal revolution was barely discerni-inventions in connection with indus-to be air-conditioned compeltely by where they cross, without it being liever same notice should be taken ble; when he died, it was in full tries, the outstanding achievement steam refrigeration. Its six storing
of them.
In An Artist's House
part the mantelshelf, and the sert cal of the shelf itself were painted
to match.
A niche in the wall, sheltering a
tive contrast was secured.
"Find the Mouldings
development.
time.
was
.many
their
One of the latest "gadgets" to be
By
fined. His age saw the rise of of Trevithick's time was the exten-land basement have 54,000. gross necessary to move them. modern civil engineering, the birth sion of the use of steam power in feat of floor space and 1,170,000 One man in a signal-hox working It was in the house of an artist of mechanical engineering, and the mines, mills, factories, and work-feet of cubic content and will house on the new electric system, can do, that this business of "finding" the application of mechanical Invention shops, and for the purpose of trans an estimated daily population. fix with ease, work which needed one- mouldings carried out with remark-on an extended scale to practically port on land and sea, and it is main-led an transient, of 1,400 persona. able success was seen.
thing like ten men under the old One room every important industry.
ly for his work in connection with High-pressure steam will cool the was painted the soft blue-green of
It was an age of pioneers, of the utilisation of steam
power air for the Britishers In summer,
system. a-duck's egg, and the mouldings of which he was one of the foremost. Trevithick himself is remembered heat it in winter and likewise wash
There is a machine in use which oors and wainment were emphasized His life, too, coincided with a period
Away in the Van
and properly humidify it. A feature whirls great engine driving wheels by lines of emerald green.
[af vast social, economic and political In a pioneering age, Trevithick of the system is that it adds elec-round at a speed equivalent to 70 The vertical edges of the book- shelves, the little ledges that up years after Watt secured his first ways he was admirably fitted
born two was always in the van, and in many trie iron to the air, giving it the miles an hour, and so tests
to zentful properties of the seashore balance before they are fitted into great steam engine patent, and he play his part. died three years after the opening famed for its inventors, bred amidst city after an electrical storm ac
Born in a county breezes, or the atmosphore of the the engines.
There are appliances which, when] of the Liverpool and Manchester surroundings calculated no ordinary cording to Clyde R. Place, consult trucks are being made, can make tall Chinese vase, was also touched connecting link between that ofteristics of a hero.
Railway. His work, indeed, is mould. he had many of the charac-ing engineer for the Rochefeller 48 holes, and screw home 48 bolts project, who designed the system. in a few seconds. A fireman in the with emerald. while finger-pintes Watt and Stephenson. Yet they
locomotive sheds, has only to press Endowed with a physique rivall- The 30-day test has demonstrat- and door-knolis took up the theme. were but three of scores of invening that of Stephenson, he possessed ed, Mr. Place said, that the pres made of concrete mix, weigh up and a button-and huge coat bunkers Thus, in place of a drad level of tors and engineers who contributed an imagination as vivid as that of sure steam system will supply the supply tons of coal to the angipen. uniformity, a charmingly provocato the extraordinary progress of the Davy, a self-confidence as strong building daily with approximately
Es that of an Ericsson, inventive 60,000,000 cubic feet of conditioned tried out on the railways is a device In his lifetime. Trevithick saw an 'powers not less than those of air. This will require the refri: to be fitted to express trains. If you decide to "find the mould-
bed-immense improvement in our roads. Watt, and the audacity of a Brunel.gerating equivalent of 600,000 means of the photo-electric cell, ings" of the woodwork in a
notable From a child up he was impulsive, pounds of ice a day quantity this device will switch all the clec- of erection room, there are various
in the ways
courageous, generous, sufficient to form a skatting rink tric lights in the train on when a which you may develop the treat-bridges, and the construction of im-impetuous,
He and unfortunately, improvident, 200 feet wide and 750 feet long, tunnel is entered, and will switch ment of skirting board and door. Portant docks and harbours.
Half a century age, a writer des-Madison Square Garden's rink methem off again when the train re- You can give the bedstead itself the likewise saw the application first of
by cast fron, and then of wrought iron, jcribed him as "one of the greatest jasures 85x188 feet. It was estim- air of having its own recess
emerges into day light. painting the wall at the back in the to structures and machines; the in-jengineers and most fertile inventors ated that the 600,000 pounds of ice
trodaction of the puddling furnace, the world has ever seen. A genius would cool 7,200,000 highballs same tint as the mouldings.
Say you have decided the and the rolling mill of Cort, and the with all the weakness, as well as the day.
80 Degrees In Summer. Tashionable apricat for the room in production in large quantities of strength of character usually com- in men of extraordinary general, and on lavender-purple for wrought-iron bars. rails and plates. bined
Summertime weather inside the the mouldings. The bed-recess, and
British Empire Building will be He suffered many fluctuations of the beside lockers will be painted lavender, and coveriet, and pillows;
grees of temperature and 67 de makers had taxed to the uftermost less, but, whatever his circum- will repeat the tint.
green of humidity, according to Mr. mill-stances, he knew full well that his Place. In winter the respective the the skill of the smithe Behind the glass doors of
witnessed efforts were not wasted, and towards drets cupboard, if there is one, will wrights, but Trevithick
readings will be about 70-56. the the close of his life he spoke of "the be a stretched curtain of soft laven-the birth of the boring mill.
Steam is taken at a pressure of der silk, and the full "petticunt" of self-acting lathe, and the planing great secret pleasure and laudable
application pride that I feel In my own breast 126 pounds a square inch, and for- the machine: and also the the dressing-table, will be of
jof the methods of the clock and in- from having been the instrument of ced at a very high velocity through same material.
new principles electora or jets to creat a vacuum. This game of "Ending the mould-strument maker to all types of bringing forward
machinery.
and new arrangements of boundless which cools water acording to woll ings" ir bert played when it is ex-
known principles of vacuum refri- pended to other decorative details. Inventions inultiplied space, and value to my country."
in his lifetime the number of To-day, like Savery, Newcomen geration water than cooled is then patents secured annually increased and Symington, he lies in an un-employed to cool. cleanse and de- | seven-fold. Huddart's rope-making | known grave, but never were
his humidify the air which circulates Meikle's threshing ma- merits more fully recognised.--En- through the conditioning system. chine. Bell's reaping machine,gineering.
Devonshire Village
Designed By American
Architects.
400 MODEL DWELLINGS TO BE CONSTRUCTED
It is announced from New York
that the architectural firm of Howe
Inventions Grow
ability"
The demands of the early engine-fortune, and in the end died penni- kept in the neighbourhood of 80 de-
machines,
and
WOMEN ENGINEERS
Manufacture Their Own Inventions.
MAKE DELICATE PARTS
SHANGHAI'S NEW BANK
The only engineering works in the Impressive Building Has
and Lescaze, of that city has com pleted the plans for an entire village world run entirely by women is at
Mosler Vaults.
MAIN DOOR WEIGHS 40,000 LB.
of medium-priced, modern dwellings Kensington, London. Every em- to be built on a 200-acre tract of ployee, from proprietor to
office water front land near Dartington, Devonshire, England, on land be girl, is a woman and much of the Of the many achitectural monu- longing to Lord Christon. The work is manufacturing the engineer.ments that has been erected to
Flowing through ducts concealed in the outer walls of the building, into 216 outlets which, like the heat radiators, are concealed beneath windows, the daily supply of 50,- 900,000 cubic feet or treated air is admitted to offices at a speed of 1,500 feet a minute and to street- level stores at 2,00 feet a minute. All air ducts and outlets have been Insulated so that they will function noiselessly,
CONSTRUCTION IN NEW YORK CITY.”
house great financial Institutions in New
pian arranges for the constructioning inventions of women. of 400 to 500 houses, ranging in
Shanghaf during the past decade, Girls clamber along high shafting few, if any, will surpass in dignity price from £1000 to £1,500 each.
12
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Buildings Ahead Of 1932 Figures.
JULY SHOWS - BIG GAIN.
Mr. Lescaze described the plans there, armed with gresse guns, and massive construction the new for the town in detail.
Near the while others pry deep into the delf:me of The Land Bank of China. waterfront, which curves in a wide) horse-shoe, will be affioen-acre cate works of big machines. park, with tennis courts, lawns and The business was started by a large pavilion. There will be a woman and at no time in its history recreational building with facilities has any man had a hand in it... for all kinda of games. On the water side will be email dressing Its founder, manager, organizer, vaults, The Land Bank of China Commissioner of Buildings, called cubicles giving onto the beach. On and inventor of some of its producte was influenced by the fine record for the erection of 11 new build- the landward side of the park will is Miss A. Ashberry, Miss Ash-that the company enjoys for its ings at a cost of $39,900, compared superior quality of design and with the same month last year of atures, the bank and whatever other berry now employs 20 girls as en-workmanship, and the fact that the 11 new buildings costing $88,720, - buildings the community will re- gineers but at first she had so many Mosler Comopany has supplied dur-
Alterations for the month of July! quire. In one of the most favour rebuffs from men that the entering the past 25 years over 15 per called for 249 plans to 259 build- able spots on the development, Mr. price was almost killed.
cent of the modern vault "equip- Deacaze said, there will be a fine.
Some of the girls in her plantment in use by the Chinese Banks 48 coating 3840,815, as compared with the same.month last year of modern hotel, for visitors and
throughout China. guests of the residents..."
left offices and shops to learn en-
152 plans to 167. buildings costing .:$502,769. The houses will be of several gineering, Une was a speedway types, due to the He of the land and rider and another a road scout.
A central feature of this fino Plans and specifications for new banking building is the massive buildings and alterations, filed with safe, depost system situated on the the Manhattan Department of mezzanine floor of the banking Buildings for the month of July, room. In selecting The Mosler11989, according to a report made safe Company to build its bank public recently by Samuel Fassler,
be a main rond, lined with the few
· Entire Vault Protected.
The body of the vault is con- Now plans were for one munici- structed of heavy concrete walls pal building, $15,000; three, gare of its orientation, with different
Not long ago, Miss Ashberry was doubly re-inforced with steel and ages, $5,700; one manufacturing posàlbilities of view. Mr. Lescara stressed this point as highly impor- approached by the British Brand- inside of these walls is a steel lin and work shop, $5,000; one wars tant in modern architecture. His casting Company to make a special ng composed of the highest grade house, $2,000 and four miscellan
She was steel so carefully fitted together cous, $7,000,000 plan is to let nach become a part of gramophone pick-up. the scene, fitting naturally into the given the work because the B.B.C.that it becomes an airtight cham-
Alberations were to 112 clasa A landscape, and keeping the plan so thought woman would be the best her when the entrance and emer- tenements, for which 104 plans flexible that every bit of sunlight, to handle it, as the details were agency doors are in closed position led costing $324,180; 17 one- natural beauty, air and comfort will conndential secret.
Surroundng the four walls and family dwellings, costing $63,500;
be included in the finished product. The factory makes delicate aero- ceiling there in an air cushion, fo- 17 office buildings, to cost 896,400;;
The general plans, call, for a plane parts for ships, wireless sofa, suring that a dry condition is main 29 stores and showroomin, Coning hen, zained inside the vault and servés | 388,350; {11) warehouses, for which" garage, living and dining rooma, a zárőr Blad
së iadditional protection against the 10 planarmware-feled, "post)
grept of a000, and to 23 class B
kitchen and a lavatory on the Arst bosiery machine broop floor of the house, In the urchines, and, a patent by- sounding property will be a käes,..
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