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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947.
ENGINEERING PAGE Continued from Page Eight ROCKETS. REVIVE INTEREST
Synthetic Fats And
IN THE PLANETS
By Paul F. Ellis
He believea It. hardly possi
The possibility that rocket ble because of the many condi- ships in the future may be tions peculiar to tha carth zooming through Врасе for which have determined the type away from the earth's gravity of organiams existing here. 17 pull has again revived Interest in Mara, Ventre and Mercury.
Oxygen Rare The astronomers are showing
Astronomers have long be now interest, particularly leved that oxygen on Mars la Mars, and the old question of extremely rart, if it exists at whether life can, or docs, exist there is boing pondered again.
all.
"Next War"
The possibilities of establish- ing a synthetic fats industry that could be quickly expanded In time of need is being investigat ed by management officials and research heads in the chemical
industry,
in
Mars will make a close ap- Dr. Franck believes, however, proach to Earth next February that the problem of life on 17. Then it will be only 63,000,- other planets revolves around 000 miles away, "Astronomically the question of whether such speaking, this is almost hand-life exists on Mars, shaking distance.
The
As U.S. was the case with the lack of natural rubber in World War 11, fats and oils might prove to be a aerloug boltleneck of both food and industrial production in future war. Synthetics produc- tion would solve the problem, an it did in the case of natural rubber,
Observatory of shortages of natural University of Chicago, several of the nation's top astronomers disclosed they were planning other serious "look-see" at
an does
other planeta, he Ex-
on a
"FIDO" For Los Angeles
Airport
Lat Angeles municipal airport plan Installation of the spectacular "fulo" Isnding ald by the end of this
Dear,
trew-
Yerkes
At a recent symposium at plains, show conditions now "Fido" is an abbreviation for an living beings. The absence of force engineers during the battle of the suitable for the maintenance of joriginal name coined by Royal Air
oxygen in proves that vegetation
Venun definitely Britain in 1940. It stands for "c
inflammable dispersion operation." large scnie does not exist there:
The RAF built a long, wide run- Mars next February.
the enormous abunway in Suffolk County, England-one the surfaces of
New techniques of exploring dance of carbon dioxide and the of the clasest paints in the German-
the earth's absence of water.
tominated continent. They built it on neighbours have been develop Some astronomers have said the theory that many planes return- A sizeable output of synthetic, and Prof. G. P. Kulper, that Venus, however, may have ins from raids could be saved 1 fats would also help in relieving he of America's top astronom had life many millions of years emergency landings at a point near longterm world shortages
ers, told the symposium that ago, and that it was snuffed the English Chaunet, of fats and olla.
next February it may be pos- out when the oxygen disappear- sible to determine the composi-ed. Some of the less conserva than 1,000 RAP and 8th Air Force Their theory proved correct, More The synthesia of fata was tion of the polar cap on Mars tive any that such a fate might planes and their valuable developed in Germany before the whether it is water droplets even happen to Earth in the were saved by the huge landing war. It is obtained by the com: land snow, my solid ice. bination of fally neide derived
millions of years to come.
· trip during the war. from paraffin wax and glycerin,sible to identify the aubatance, telescope
He and it may even be" pon-i The huge, 200-Inch mirrori
Bur at Palomar, Calif., Glycerin can itself be
another problem beset the made of the green arena on Mars, may be in operation by next fogs which all in off the North Sea RAF-the ground-hugging English synthetically from petroleum.sometimes held to be vegeta-February 17. If
frat synthetic glycerin tlon. Some
the hartly before scientists say astronomers surely won't miss
dawn. plant will be put into operation where there is vegetation, or taking a new exploration
The nights over England usually are cryulai- in Texas next year by the Shell plant life, it is reasonable to Mara.
uclear in the winter-time, but the ap Chemical Co. The $70,000 plant assume there is animal life.
proach of morning warmth raises the will produce 35,000,000 lb. of
this new instrument, moisture off the sea and wafts it Another astronomer, Prof. many other mysteries high purity glycerin annually. James Franck of the Univer-universe may be settled. One,
of the fover the west coast of the island like
a great white blanket. The German process for mak-sity of Chicago, commented on for instance, is whether space ing synthetle fats is known; and the significance of settling the goes on indefinitely, or whether could be easily adapted with im-question as to whether or not it has an ending. The theory provements, Dr. Gustay Egloff. the green areas on Mars resem- that space bends also may beltinental raids an hour or two before
blo terrestrial vegetation,
The
of Universal Of Products says.
Under the present building conditions the U.S., it would re- quire two years to construct a synthetle fats plant, Dr. Egloff estimates.
Large quantities
of natural
fats and oils are now being used to make soap and glycerin, Pro- for
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Hearing Aid Better Than Real Thing
Dread Fog.
Bambers which got back from con-
dawn had little tenuble landing. But the last raiders and usually they were the ones with battered crewn and shot-up engines-met the dread
fox,
So the RAF lined a runway with petrol laid in disches-applied
arch-and burned the fog right off the ground. The effect of thousands
A new hearing aid-one that; Schuchtel Bald that about of allons of burning petrol ralied an amplify sound 20,000 times 40,000 persons in this country the mist an much as 100 feet at times and still be curried in a woven-cannot be helped by hearing enough for weary pilets to keep in ounce packet hidden in the aids There are the totally under the overcast. It cost $80,000 an pur-clothing-has been developed, deaf, he said.
but it was worth it in zaved This new device, announced For those who can be help
fiver by the Sonotone Corporationed, he said, it is time to remove technique changed the open ditches to Later improvements in the fido is so delicato that it can pick up the "unnecessary and unfair jet-sprays of petral from a pipe wys- sounds that even the natural stigma attached to the wearing tem along the runway. Then oil was car can not hear. Further of hearing aids that has come substituted for the preciour petrol. more, the car plece is now be down through ing made in transparent plas- United Press.
So now Los Angeles airport is ask- [ing bids es construction of just such tie--so thin and so transparent Modern science and technique Authority is interested in the results Pa system." The Civil Aeronautics that it is virtually invialbic. have been constantly Improving mich so that it is providing The new aid, according to hearing aids for the deaf during $341,000 of the estimated $610,000 Irving I. Schachtel, president the last few years. The tendency total cost. of the company, should do much toward "breaking down effective and yet at the same
is to make the apparatus more!
reluctance of he public toward time wearing hearing aide."
the ages."--
to reduce its dimensions, The London arm F.C. Rein
Instalments-
The airlines which use the airport
then
He said there ANO today Sous seems to have found a eventually will pay back the rest of 5,000,000 Americans who need very good answer to tha pro-the money to the city, Los Angeles bearing aids but that only 600,- blem.
will pay for the installation, 000 are wearing them,
"This is due to reluctance to known as the "Commodore", no
It has produced a hearing aid take payments from the Bries an a
five-year instalment plan. udmit impaired hearing, al- larger than a flat cigarette Case. Los Angeles will be a far cry from The fide system to be installed at though faulty vision is quickly The receiver, as tiny as it could the first ende admitted and
mudge-pot operations corrected by conceivably be fits snugly into in glasses," he said.
war-timer England. One of the the user's, cat. The microphone, radio tubes) A particular feature which de-in the first fido landinge was the biggest problems faced by the RAF and batteries of the new de- serves mention is that this little heavy black smoke coming up from vice are contained in a single apparates can easily be regulat the burning petrol. Natural gas packet, about the size of a large ed by the user. It can be set to burnera probably will be med in Lon cigaret case. Heretofore, the any of five distinct performance Angeles, eliminating most of the usual hearing aid equipment curves, according to the needs of
smoke problem. required two packeta-one for the
user, by a simple
the batteries and one for the touch regulator, microphone and tubes, The
present tubes are about the length of a paper clip, and al- most as light. The batteries are not as big as the little finger.
Men may wear them in their. veal pocket. Women can, con- ceal them in their clothing.
Schachtel said that "proper fitting and mechanical adjust iment of a hearing aid is no longer hit or miss affair.” Instruments now have been do- visod, he said, to determine just what is wrong with a per- son's hearing. The aide can § thon be adjusted properly.
Lancashire Cotton
cotton
Whenever really good. fabrics are mentioned, the products of the great Lancashire mills "¡ come; first to mind. These products, are of | such standard that one of the largest milfs, / Fothergill & Harvey, Sladen Wood Mill, near Littleborough, have now taken step quite unprecedented in the whole textile industry of Its
The firm giving buyers fabrics a guarantee of their constant standard. All the fabrics, before, bas In released for sale, will be tested ing In the firm's research department: and the results of the tests deterinined as reghida: the weight of the material, is elasticity, the sedmile strength of the thread, the fabric'è dye-fastness. and "crvase
The Skrastes will it foto
only, to curtain (of the mlija, products, but during the coursevol next year.
it will cover thé, mila, endre oulpi
hoove
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