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DINING BY CONVEYOR BELT
A ennveyor-belt cafeteria (which moves dinners from sp do sweet or twenty minutes has been, designed and patented by British engineer and a grupp of multiple stores are planning tor Install them,
Diners sitting at a plastie gopnler 1 wide air cushioned scals are moved at five feet per rutiute. After tive Anutes when up or hors doenvre is finished the seat is moved to the point where the main engse served and mes. minutes later to the sweet and coffee section, Twenty minutes hus been fixed
as the average time to ent n three
meal with 111
ailowance for prople Lu Fat Mlowly.
Underneath euchi sent
belt is a compartment for hats, conts and parcels.
WAN
w conveyor-belt cafeteri
designed to elimonate queueing delays and to save Ume and space. It Can serve as many people in an hour as the ordinary enfeteria and in team than half the space.
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RECORDING
WITH WIRE By Arnold Hall
The idea of
Automatic washing machines. tend tereste Conveyor which by magnetismi on steel wire in brings the food from the kit-rud of the e-nventional way of chens are included.
recording Sound Magnetic recording does not con.
the to
use of wire fine itself
Another type is the one alone. dise-esitting. although recently which employs a conted plastic became a practical reality, is not tape wound on 8 mm reels of 7 Orlers bave her received
EXCHAN The principle was advane. (in. diameter, giving a recording from 61her countries.
for t
ed by a Danish scientist half a cen- [time of 30 minutes with a slight veyor belt cafeterins but the
tury ago. Recently thanks to the fly higher frequency response of manufacturers nope The will Allied Art Forces which sought 5,000 cycles, be used in Britain first. The la
recording menas during the The application of the Magne- Board of Trade has granted war, capable of recording with tie Wire-Recorder for different Beences for production,
out interruption for ng periods purposes other than the field of and y{
compact music, (voice training simple and
and In- During the first six months of enough to
into strument practicing, which offers be incorporated 1917, Vauxhall Motors Já. pro-a prtabl Carrying Cist tu the musiclan for the first time duced 30,554 vehicles-15,724 withstand the rigors of held ser- the rare opportunity of listening cays and 16,280 trucks-compur-vices, gave necessary impetus for and criticising his own works) is ed with the 21.249 vehicles pro- developing the
the scope of business dininis- of uced during the first half of magnetic recording into a pre-tration. The Wire-Recorder can
tical medium of sound recording. be used as a dictaphone and
The Wire Recorder which is preferred, used in conjunction being practiced commercially to-with a pair of earphones for con day is so simple and compact fidential matters. During direc that it only slightly bigger than tors meetings or
1946.
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HAS COUNTLESS USES IN HOME AND INDUSTRY The Webster-Chicago Wire Recorder is extremely easy to operate requires no technical knowledge. If you can play your radio- can operate this wire recorder.
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OPERATES AS EASILY AS YOUR RADIO Portable, easy to carry, the Webster-Chicago Wire Recorder can be used to record conferences, take inventories, field reports a host of other uses. Come in today for a demonstration.;
and
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RADIO PROGRAMS Make continuous hour-lang recordings - xave then for enjoyment later.
PARTIES Making recordings at por Mes is always fun - möken Qatherings Ülvellar.
DICTATION Long-memoranda, İnlee, views, conferences, lavoni horisa, alci, men sasily, com
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This great flying-boat may in a few years' time be ferrying 35 Passengers non-stop betreten Lan- dop and New York in 13% hours. It is the 140-ton double-decker
Saunders-Ror S.RAS, there rohich are bring built at Cower, Tite af Wight, at a cost of some
£5,000,00
of
Ou short "haps" this pressurie ed flying-hat-biggħut aircraft rer halt in. Britain-will have for 140 panengers, but on Thum longer distuners freer will be carried because of the enormon) furt tund which has to be taken, On the London-New York service this will total,
15,000 pak, werighing 19. thai,
First 5.8.45 is expected to fly
at the end of 1948 ar early next year. Date of its maiden flight is largely dependent on progres
of work, on the Bristal Prstens Project engines. 14 is expected shat the R45 will be capable of operating a round-the-world service in 90 hours carrying 85 Pasinger, 1 of them in bunks.
Record Year On Clyde
The Ferr
1947 closed with other import Britain's shipintilders having
a portable typewriter and yet itant gatherings, the Recorder will on their books the greater mechanism for displace the work of an efficient volume of orders ever recorded. both recording and playback. On stenotypist in minute-taking. In The value of the tonnage for tup of this superiority, the same the field of advertising, it offers
plece of wire is capable of being an excellent medium for training which they held contracts ex- used over and over again, as old solearmanship.
in the were can be recurdings wiped off by re-running the wire through the machine ats simply eleaning a slate,
In
¿TI
the profes.
reeder £300,000,000 «f which excellent one-third in for export. In one sionul feld, it is medium for a lawyer to nuke sense, 1947 has been an aus- exact recording of Interviews, terity year, since the emphasis and testimonials. It will like has been on repairs and recon- wise serve ductor well tor version, so that the output of keeping record of case histories Hew ships was not a record. and a psychiatrist for recording Even so, over one million tons Viademar Poulsen, a Danish the rombling but revealing chat-gross have been launched, and scientist was first credited withter of a patient
treat at the moment Britain's ship
First Discovery
sound in theory was nevertheless porr In sound reproduction und even compared unfavourable to the then -far- Crom perfect neoustic phonograph,
With the Introduction of vacutan tube and electronic am-
under
this
the discovery of the principle of ment. For the journalist, it is builders are receiving hundreds magnetic wire-recording in 1808. the culmination of a few genera- of inquiries for oil-tankers,
The shipbuilding position on His first recording machine was tons of the journalist dream for exhibited at the Paris Exposition an economical machine with the Clyde is of particular inter- in 1000, which created consider. Practically no operation overhead est, since the yards on able interest among scientists and to duplicate the tedious works of great river are responsible for
interviews one-third of the national output | aymen.His Telegraphone though taking notes during
or evering important functions. of ships. The part of Glasgow Even for the professional
wri- han schemes on hand for new ter, the machine fa Infinitely docks and for improvements superior to the typewriter or the costing £8.000.000, which will employment of a secretary, since make it capable of docking or the machine is there where they repairing any vensel afloat. the want it and when they want it. During 1947, the 22 construct- Home Enterainment ing shipyards on the Clyde plification in the early twenties, Finally, the Wire-Recorder launched 09 vessels aggregat- interest in the possibility of high offers the greatest entertainment Ing 374.743 tons and valued at magnetic recoding was again re-value for home at a cest slightly £31,000,000. vived. At first research
was higher than a good radio recei- All total tonnage produced confined to Germany. A
ver. Radio programmes of fine by the Scottish shipyards is scientist named Pileumer de-
music, can be recorded for el estimated at 450,000 tons. In veloped in 1928, a method where- surely replays later, climinating shipbuilding, engineering, ship by paper or plastic tape could the cost of purchasing expen reconversion, and repair work be given a metallic coating sen- sive records. Family parties and the Clyde yards in 1947 exceed sitive enough for recording pur-home gatherings are capable of ed all previous peace-time re- poses. Thus for the
first time, being made much more enter- sound recording other than the taining and fun by the use of the work an hand
cords. Clyde shipiirilders have use of disc was finally proven to Recorder.
to the value be practical,
of £70,000,000, and in tankor All in all there is
great The principle of the magnetic future for the Magnetle Wire Re-
tonnage alone they have con- wire-recorder ድና actually quite corder, a future which will
tracts valued at £21,000,000. simple. The Microphone picks doubledly develop into a battle up sound and transforms into royal between the major disc- an electric current of varying record and gramaphone companies intensity. This current when of the world and the new indus. passes through a Magnetle Head tries of magnetle recordings. sets up a magnetic field. The magnetism is thus transferred lo a wire which runs through the field at a constant rate velocity. Upan playback, the magnetized wire in turn sets up varying electrle earrent which
on the market, available for all robot display at Olymoin this It will show the ил amplifier and loudspeaker purposes--Food Scales, Babyaummer: transform into sound: The qua- Scales, Balances, Market Scales, public and overseas buyers the lity of the reproduction of sound Bakern & Drug Scales, Com- giant machines which are help: depends mainly on the speeds mercial & Industrial Scales.ing to win the battle for pro- at which the wire rune through These models may be, had either duction.
For two weeks there will be the Magnelle Head. The faster in the American pound unit the speed, the higher the fidelity weight, or, the metric system. pn show a "mechanical arm" and the finer tho sound repro- They have the highest reputa- and other gadgets, which save duction.
tion for accuracy.
munlients and speed op pro- ruction.
A
of
un-
Olympia Robot
DETECTO SCALES Display
For the first time since the
War. Detecto Scales are back London la to have a
great
A spcol of wire of tho Magnetic Wire-Recorder, runs Night accidents were rezon- The exhibition is to be free! through the machine very much faible for nearly two-thirds o, and more than a hundred firms in the same way as a spool of urban traffle deaths. In 1940. are showing their goods. ribbon runs through a type according to "Accident Facts" On display will be aerial writer and is, in fact, construct the National Safety Council's ropaways and elevators, coal ed "álong-a-similar:lion - A spool, | statistical yearbook. In rural and ash handling plant, cranes holding 7,200 feet of wire gives arons, traffic deaths at -night und: holate,,, trucks, Waggontip-
a playing and recording time of "and in daylight; are almost pers, and pneumatic handling. (an hour.';
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