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A new economical
dictation
Earth's heat used
for warmth
New York (U.P.)--A new syя [tern of heating homes has been ntroduced in the country which utilises the naturai heat of the earth, according to the 1949 edi
machine
Webster-Chicago Corporation, makers of Webster- Chicago wire recorders which have already achieved such popularity in Hong Kong and the world ovar, have pulled something out of the bag again. This time it is one of the most economical and compact Dictation-Recorders, employing the same technical principles as their magnetic wire recording machines.
tion of "The Story of Our Time." This Dictation-Recorder which is being offered to
to published Gruller Soviety.
ara
zero
the shortly by 11 เช the heat
by a Ground heal is trapped kup of one-inch pipe which ear- ves about 200 feet below Use mut- face and back, A Bquid refri- grant carries the heat from the earth to the house, even weather.
The book likens the process to that of a refrigerator. The heal Jaump takes heat from the gemital just as a refeigerator removes heat 2. Frosh warm food placed inside a As the liquid poses trough the pipe, a becomes increasingly bot ler, packing up more and more of
warth
the
earth's
business circles in Hong Kong under the nome of Webster-Chicago Dictation-Recorder model 18, is priced below HK$1,000. At this ex- tremely reasonable price, it will mark a mile- stone in the field of dictation machines which are generally quoted at never anything below HK$3,000 to HK$4,000.
Antarctic power plant
For the British-Norwegian- Swedish expedition to the Anlarc- The which is now being planned special power planta pre being provided by the A. C. Morrison
of Lid.. | (Engineers)
Lough- borough with the Petter oil en-
as prime mover.
Basically these plants are the sinudiard Morrison Automatic Power Plants which are going to every country in the world,
Petters wer the largest manu- facturers in the world of the mo
diesel small cold-starting dern
and engine,
Morrisons are largest producers of small buto- platits in the
the
of using
When this the diesel power
plants in the Antanelle was first discussed some eight months
was realisest That.
the standard pre- Although pudurt was perfectly suitable and deal lo every way, the lives of
More important than its econ- [compounded by painstaking re-
search for the sole omacal consideration, are its many
und Jageniour features taking the drudgery out of hand unique
ling correspondence, and to make dictation
JIM talking to M
A special beauty of this procesa When it is that it purops coldness from
the house Ary live Ereaches the heat pump unit in the the earth to house, the quid in taut unter Mutter Gioie
revolutionary type
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any
hich were dependent The continued and efficient
The
pressure and that forces the tem. one's intimate friends,
The machine which operates functioning of these machines, it perature even higher.
with us much ease and shuplicity was wise to take even more than
Webster-Chienguļ normal care in production. as the ordinary wire recurder is equipped with s
+trif text engines. foot-control which will stop the ponents, were assembled by hand recorder an HOTA
in and not on the assembly line af Priters, as also were the genera- retensed from the foot-pad.
When a sentence is thought outters ant switchger at Morrisons and composed az the die Labor's To attain starline from remote mhd, he will press the foot-con-control push-butions of tempera- trol to start the recorder goigures uf 121121442 40 Centigrade and talk through a munall handy electric resistance beaters were microphone. When the sentence
Bled in the air trunks,
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"Terrapin" Mobile with ал Immediate
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the of house, Dwelling, designed to provide industry means of housing workers comfortably and economically whore traditional housing in not avaliable, was shown in London re-
Manufactured cently,
Dwellings. Ltd. of Can. by Terrapin
bullding
he England, the London,
erected non Street,
alumi- от It is made within Bix hours by two or three men.
be transported a whole on alloy and wood ntum
and wood and can
and opened out single lorry to site.
There the sides are roofs, floors and outer walls unfolded from their stowed posl. tion In the main structure. The main body is 22 feet long by 71 ft. 6 In. wide.
This opens up as described into two addi
13 ft.
The whole 2 in. by tional wing rooma osch building
wired for electricity and fitted with a full sized bath, plumbing and connections for drainage and water sup ply, and equipped with two tanks for hot and cold water. electric cooker can be supplied.
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ANNOUNCING
for the first time
really LOW-COST DICTATION
Saves Time. Saves Money... Saves Your Dispositoni
• Madel 18 takes up no more desk room than a file
baskat, It's a little giant!
⚫. Foot controlled'.
quickly and surely.
stops and starts the Model 18
Light weight.
... woighs loss then 20 pounds.
...
Model 18 picks up voices at a considerable distance from the microphone. Ideal for recording miset", ings, Interviews, conferences. Handy for taking inventory.
Come in and hear this new marvel of low-cost dictation today.
WEBSTER-CHICAGO
Model 18 Wire Recorder
Here it is at last :;; a dictation instrument that docen't cost you your shirt to buy or maintain! You can own ■ dictating instrument that records and plays back all on one machine. Can be replayed us often as you like or crased simply by recording over the same wire.
Webster-Chicago Model 18 Wire Recorder is ready to go-simply plug into any AC outlet and talk. Plays back through its own self-contained speaker with Natural Vales quality. (Headphones may be used.)!
Model 18 is amazingly simple to use-only one master wire control plus FOOT CONTROL, for hand-free stop and start. You will be astounded ar the clarity and tone of your voice as it plays back. Your stenographer will be able to transcribe jost as easily as you dictate. She will love it! Use at the office, at home, anywhere.
Model 18 H only 11′′ x 115′′ a 5%" und weighs less than 20 poundel
„Batter still Il posts only
An
fraction of an ordinary. DICTATION MACHINK
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Only A Fraction of the Cost of an Ordinary Dictation Machine
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Is Anished he will simply relouse the foot-control to stop the re- cording to allow himself for to think of the next senlener
No break
me
In replay for typing there whit be no break in the conlimaation of the dictation. The typist (there will be no need for transcribing by an experienced stergrapher) will likewine control the play back by foot control to adjust the Row of the sentences to her own
typing speed, a thing which would
Special lubricants
Although specially developed Jubileunts are to be user to with- ) stand these extreme cold tem-1 peratures automatic switches have been fitted in the oil pump cir- runts, which switches can either ull sourul a warning that the
switch supply is failing, or the plants to avoid wrecking the engines.
The machines re radiator- cooled, and are using 'anti-freeze' do away with her own nervous solution for cooling; but in ex- ness If no foot-control were postreme temperatures rible.
Furthermore, for
CBT.
Two frequencies
which may be met with It may be possible the comfort for even this to fall, and elec- and appearance of the typist, he trie thermal switches are fitted dictation can either he played in the water outlets which switch back through the speaker of the off the plant in ense
of failure muching or through the latest
of the cooling system, Telex earphone which is made of
The
for rubbers used
the plastic and is no bigger than a
various 10-cent pleco lted anugly into the couplings, sleevings and
parta. throughout the electrical Gone are the unsightly our- phones which make a typlat look, equipment, are specially selected like a
synthetic types which will not telegraph operator.
these extreme tem- Another feature which will de- harden at light usern is the elimination of peratures. the necessity of having "to shove" cylindors for re-use an in obliga- Lory in other types of dictating machines. The Webster-Chiengo model 18 in absolutely self-suffi- cient, compact and portable. Like its sister wire recorder, a spool of recording wire in capable of being used and re-used thousands the engine which gives two of times thereby culting down
governor positions, rotor of the alternator
having oporationul overbead to almost e
three slip rings, so that when the
to 40 speed is dropped 40 cycica the current is taken from one pair of slip rings at 230 volts, and when the engine is speeded up to 50 cycles the switch takes the cur- rent from another pair of slip: rings, still retaining 230 volts.
The alternators are self-rc-
zero.
Ideal for home
The machines are built to operate on either of two fre- quencies-40 cycles or 50 cycles, This is effected by a speed lever
and by the
As if that is not enough, you may bring your model 18, which is not bigger then a portable type- writer, back to your flat to Bnish some backing correspondence.
Another outstanding contribu-gulating.
to business le
The tion of model telephone attachment to record ranged
machines, in pairs, oro ar- to supply the load
two the other
circuits
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Important long-distance cails or through three separate circuits, DAVID HOUSE other equally important messages each circuit controlled by that might come over the wire, overload circuit breaker, so that This is simply accomplished by the overloading of one circuit thing telephone-pad attachment leaves (about HK$85) and by placing in operation. your telephone on top, no wiro connection whatsoever in needed, The miracle is performed by in- duction.
However, after all that is, said about this amazing littlo dictating 'machine, its most winning feature from the businessman's stand- point is still its astonishingly low price, a factor which will enable any small business firm to avail j itsoif of its benefits, and give bigger concerns the convenienco of having several machines to serve their various departments at the cost of a single conventional dictating machine.
Bosphorus tunnel project revived
In the 18708; J. L. Haddan, director of public works at Alép- po, a city in North Syria, recom mended, a revolutionary and dar ing plan to the Turkish Govern ment for the construction of a tunnel under the waters of the Bosphorus at Constantinople.
working
mandel of the Syrian's scheme was
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the plan was not.
Today, drie of the United most widely known bridge and in proposing a funnel, the dimensions of which would dwart the
tube. Haddan wafited to run across the Bosphorus
floating Lunhal proposed, by Charles Andrew 1 of Incoma Washington, is th fact two tunnels or ty in tubes, each with a dia- mater of 80 feet, The tubes An drew coulentiplates would be. 15- 000 feet lona" and woulda cross through water 300 feet deep
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