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ENGINEERING PAGE
1
Mobile One Man's Genius Creates
Well Known Industries
Dock Generator
The provision of an adequate olectricity supply when in port asualis necessitates the run- ming of a ship's auxiliary en- gines.
to
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au.
Truly ant to provide un equale puwer supply on boar.l 'n duck, the Southern Re- shup gine" or "Betim Hallways" placed an order with the General Elec- tric Co. of England for mobile motor generalor Jets for service at Southampton,
Dover and Folkestone,
1010
One of the many Swedish undertakings which, from
small beginnings, has, expanded into world- wide industries that have made the name of Sweden respected and famous is undoubtedly the firm now known under the name of“"'AGA. The creator of this industry,, the late. Dr. Gustaf Delen, was an outstanding genius, omong the mony extremely able scientists, engineers, technicians and workers. Swaden has always had the inestimabla privilege of possessing.... all of whom have contributed to the coun- try's progress,
lighting would for various eene mic reasons be out of the question
d
1m
FIROLA RESISTS
FLAMES
Firola (Fire-Resisting) shut- tera hayo been, designed to, mest effiotant firo- the demand for an resisting tool curtain, complying: with the requirements and exact ing regulations of the London London. Mr. County Cosmoil, Brigade,. District Surveyora,, Rire. Offices Committee and Insurance Companies.
In 1904. the Svenska A/B Gas accumulator had taken over the A typical wit ar operation at
patent rights for the exploitation By these inventions. Dr. Dalen An inestimable service to Southampton is illustrated,
fa French. invention that had Ench set consists of n: 50 kw. cnued a considerable sensation in international shipping, and
Firola shutters operate singly mounted in a generator
technical circles throughout the 1912 he was awarded the Nobel
in: nim they are -called
Ib Lite name on in paira; dissolved Prize for Physics. klesk on a pneu-world, viz. weatherpron!
and wrights watle tyred traller,
acetylene disselved in year he was the victim of used in stores, largo-shopa, hotelt; gas", Le.
which bereft etc., where the party walls are approximately live tons. When nertona. However, this dissolved serious accident,
pierced ly, large openings which In use the trailer is supported on
n had the disadvantage that it him of his sight:
have to be covered: rapidly
the: from laries, and the kiosk in fifte
was explosive, and it had cnused
However, even this misfortune event of fire. Singly, these shut- With threes
Which soweral accidents brond. wide doors
failed curls his creative power.ters are used: for Ilt and chute DECONS 10 all parts of the equipment. Interior animation
provided
:wo 240-volt Lampis mounted in bulkhead 1- fings, indes the roof,
The mats are arranged to Lalte
DC i ar nevtrung
apply at the available mains vollage (Soutic
480 volts;
400
por
Daver
One of the sets in use at the Southampton Docks of British Railways, Southern Region. The equipment is seon from the switchboard side, on which are mount- ed the output volinge re- Kulator and meters.
volt DC output.
and
-HDITOW!
It was then that Dr. Gustaf In spite of his bindness he con- shafts, staircase openings: exter- Daten appeared on the scene--Chotirund as indefatigably: an before all door and window.openings, man whone genlus was destined his inventive work and bla.active abutting well holes. to develop ACA into a big indus- contribution to the development of streets enl-de-sacs, drying diny ACA right on to the time of his core overs, firm-realsting ledger denth in 1927.
recesses, shfes and the like.
try.
cornerstone
is
minimum,
to a
After mich experimenting he
The ACA system of, non-exple- Fireia shutters coil entirely produced what is known as the
porou substance jsive steel tales, a newylone; gas out of sight, allowing full use of |AGA mass, a
permeated with acetone, in which containers has found. widespread the opening and its surrounds for
dissolved, EX the acetylene ga is
inany and various fields architectural wall treatment und!!. in am of activity over since the bogisttings. This in an important Thanks in this moes, highly com-
tramping of the century, Gas station advantage over frained and plåte. pressed ucetylene can be
.ail. over the doors. ported in tabes without the rink have been established. of explosion. The mass became world, the must. Northerly
Mechanical parts are few and of AGA Hurstad in Norway and the most simple, the risk of a breakdown the list
Southerly In: Wellington, New
reduced consequently system,
Zealand, but also in India and the DiRKolved acetylene was first For. East, in Iceland and in South
Firola shutters of special design utilises as a source of lumina-America.
are made to meet the demand'ofi tion in the lighthouse service.
the latest requirements of the The light-power was excellent.
London County Council and Lon.. but its oporation was uneconomi-
don Fire Brigade, whereby the The sound experiences
| shuttera must be released auto- from the use of the AGA appera.... tas as beacons and other BOUIT.matically in the event of Ore. This of light, their
type is fitted with specially con reliability and structed patent, fusible link re- ability to withstand strain, and stresses and exposure wive Junction with the normal operat lease apparatus,, working in con. satisfactory that it was a relative ly long, tim
time before. AGA
tion of the shutter.. started
cal ns the fame had to burn day und night.
Then. Dalem invented the "Bash apparatue" which sa
zo ingeniously extinguishes and kindles the fame and produces alternating poricals of light and darkness, thereby causing a saving of 20 per cent of the gas consumption. The fine apparatus became corner. stone number two.
"Sun Valvo"
Number three was the sur valve"; Dalen's apparatun for automatically kindling the sourco of light on the approach of dark ne** and extinguishing it at dawn. cornerstone number
Sound Experiences
spined
The shutters are, rojeasod; auto-- to manufacture electric beacons matically, on the maliing of the There
are still
many places on earth that are not electrified, or link which fuses at 155 Fahren.. where the costs involved in laying Heit. The shutters desconde slowly cables would be too heavy, so that to class the opening completely AGA. gas will no doubt remain in and, can be operated thereafter use for a long time yet.
normally. This
convenience permits the Moreover, in regard to the roaming, of hoses and fireman, mote controlled electric AGA through the openingr. The action resetting the fusible link ap. beacons at inaccessible places, the of ro electric plant is supplemented. by paratus, is a very simples unes p axas plant, which automatically This type of automatic release
of need. starts to function in case.
single, The AGA system
well
volts; and Folkestone 420 volts), Five are designed for a 110-volt DC output, and two for a 220- Finally,
Dalen's The motor Kenerators are Bitteras with air device for mixing, the quired. A father Tapidly e-double push-up and mochan anima with compound
interpolne Bible the use of an incandescent banys and sound buoys of various operated. shutters. The apparatin inter vel gas mantle for illumination pur-For the former purposes Dalon within the normal, apads occupied
kinds, as
as. for lightships and the parts comprising it are no arall. that, they can be haused windings, and have a
In conjunction with this favented the so-called. fog-valve, in the casing by the characteristic at all conditions of poses
device Dalen also invented an in- loading.
ordinary which functions in the same types of. Fitola. Shutters, mantle genious automatic
us sun-valve. In fog and darkness the buoy's sound-signalling do vice starts functioning Thanks to these inventions the witched off in daylight and clear and is
A four-panel switchboarn changer. mounted inside the kiosk is fit
with a 500 amp. circuit-
breaker of the line contact type, beacons need no attention of men weather For ligatahipa Dalen When 'Bepo' Is in
for
the
motor.
con-
of
A
Full Operation
Even before the. First World War Dalen began experimenting
16-million. alectronvolt with the use of radio as an aid to double-field Letatron, designed by svigators, and since then AGA the research bark of the has delivered a large number of Britial Thomson-Houston Co. Lt radio beacons. Whem therefore, Rugib, England, constructed broadcasting
the, sama AGA should take up been
at the Gl the production of transmitters Laboratory Oxford. and rediving sots, In Just tHe
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