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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.
ENGINEERING, AND
A ROBOT RAILWAY
FOR TRANSPORTING
LONDON'S MAILS
The scheme launched recently for
NEW FLEXIBLE JOINTS
FOR CIRCULATING-WATER MAINS
In
power station practice the
BUILDING
DAY OF THE SMALL ̈ HOUSE
GROWING INTEREST IN
DESIGN...
London,
Oct. 20.-The
sun}|
REFRIGERATION PROCESS FOR CONCRETE
FOR THE HOOVER DAM
Boulder City, Nev.-Electric re-| frigeration has been assigned the important task of controlling the
BRITAIN TO BECOME ALL-ELECTRIC-
BRIGHTLY LIT ARTERIAL „ROADS. FORESEEN BY
PROFESSOR.
setting temperature in 3,500,000 cu- CARS WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS bic yards of concrete ta be poured ; into the Hoover Dam on the Colo- rado River near nere...
The prospect of arterial trafis
It is a plan for cooling that is roules so well lighted that cars .....
would not need headlights was dis-
a series of underground "goods- ways" for London may have been
chant, president of the Institution Office tube railway, which carries for cooling water mains is now be prominenos by reduce incomes and in dam construction. Much heat is! 150,000 tons of mails annually being generally realised, particular- lack of domestic help, was the sub, generated by the chemical processes
augural address in London. He tween main. railway termini andly in the way of replacing the ex-jeet of a lecture in London by Mr. that take place during the setting of Electrical Engineers, in his in- A W. Kenyon, F.R.I.B.A., prehi- of conorete. This resulta first in an also discussed the use of electricity important mai depots.
tremely expensive copper expan- | Unsus-
expansion of the mass and later is in agriculture and in fighting dis pected by most Londoners, minia- sion joint. Notable, for example tect to the Welwyn Garden City,
Mr. Kenyon spoke of the pleasant contraction as it cools. When very
Lense, and foretold' an “all-eleotric" ture cicotrie trains run for 19 is a recent installation in England hours a day on a c-mile couras of "Victaulic" foxible jointa on kitchens of the present day and farge blocks of concrete are poured Britain. beneath the streets from Padding. range of cast iron pipes 20" their e as breakfast rooms: of the at one time, fractures often result ton to the East District Office in bore, which is laid on piles along drawing-room, no longer a room in weaken the structure. Ording the proposal to light, the arte
inspired by the success of the Past value of the modern Rexible joint house, which has been brought into declared by engineers to be unique used by Professor E W. Mar-
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inevitable contraction is thus mini- mized to a degree and the spaces left between the blocks are laces alled with grout.
Professor Marchant said-"Even
assing the beginning of a form of electric lighting to the possibilities of which our present knowledge of physics hardly sets a limit."
Of recent experimente in food- lighting, he asked-" Why should not this practice be regarded as a national service, so that every.
Whitechapel Road, and, though at- a jetty at the Kingston Power Sta- kept for state occasions, but a simarily the danger of such defects is
that car headlights can be dis taining specxls up to 40 miles antion in the Isle of Wight, installed pls apartment with just the neces-obviated by placing the concrete in rial traffic routes in such a way hour and running at two-minute by Edmundsons Electricity Corsary comforts in it; and of the staggered columns, permitting one! intervals in the rush hours, they poration Ltd., the pipes having dining-room, which has ceased to be section to cool before another is pensed with is not realised in the have neither drivers nor guards. been supplied by the Staveley Coal a sitting-room and is kept for placed adjacent to or above it. The near future, we are undoubtedly
meals only. Once a train has been started by an and Iron Co. Ltd., Chesterfold. operator in a station control cabin, Also flexible joints of this cha- All that is really required in a it gathers speed and runs without racter for connections to condensers bedroom, lie said, is a bed, which further attention; on reaching a have been fitted in a considerable riced not have an iron or brass rail-
But the Hoover Dam is estimated "dead" section of the "live" rail number of power stations, such as ing top and bottom, a built-in the brakes are applied automatical- for example
drea to be the largest mass of conerate Calcutta, Durban wardrobe cupboard, and a ly by powerful springs, and the (South Africa), and Hame Hall, sing table, with drawers. Although, ever built, and the staggering pro- train draws up gently at the sta- (Birmingham Corporation), and therefore, the room is small, there cess is slow. If it were to be em one can learn to appreciate good tion platform. The shunting in are giving every satisfaction. Fur-can still be the necessary amount of played for Hoover Dam, engineers architecture! What and out of aidinga is also automather, of considerable interest is a dressing space. left. Emphasising estimate that 200 years would be re-beautiful buildings if we cannot see 16" steel main for cooling water at, the necessity of a lavatory-basin inquired to complete the structure.
them at night!" the Pooley Hall Colliery Co. Ltd. every bedroom, he remarked that Therefore, artifical cooling will be
this loaves the bathroom free for usod. Polesworth, Nuneaton.
toilet. The bathroom can then be bathing and not for making one's
small, too.
tio.
From time to time a similar ten dency to do away with the human element has shown itself on the It is well known that the basic Underground. Train doors con principle of this joint, a produc trolled by the driver, lifte control-tion of the Victaulic Co. Ltd. of | led from the landings, and signals London associated with Stewarts &
rails.
Some Items of Gosta,
through the great mass in a net: Cooled water will be circulated
work of 2-inch piping 150 miles long in order to remove the EXCESS heat. The pipe system has 16,000 couplings. By means of it, sn- gineers hope to keep the concrete
set six days.
controlled by the trains have long Lloyds, Ltd.,, is a heavy ring of Coming to the question of costs, been the general rule, and an auto-high-grade resistant composition he mentioned £7 for a lavatory matie lift recently made its ap-moulded in the form of a flat in basin in a bedroom; 108 to 23 for pearance at Earl's Court. As yet verted "U" contained in an outer a serving hatch; 10s, each for at a constant temperature of 72 de I have not heard any suggestion alloy housing, the pipes, of steel, clothes airers; and £5 for hot towel grees Fabrenheit after it has been that the trains should be worked wrought iron, cast iron, or other automatically, but the increasing material-being made with a small number of safety devices, such as shoulder or rim.. those that cut off the current if a driver falls ill or a train runa past the signals, point to future deve- lopments in this direction..
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SKYSCRAPERS NOT TO LONDON'S TASTE
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waste of
The Professor declared that there
stage in the development of the use as a great future for electricity in agriculture. If the "trading”.
of electricity progress with the
tain would soon become completely same speed as the grid, Great Bri-
electrified.
With regard to tropical diseases, he said that lighting, ventilation,. and refrigeration by electricity would do much in the fight against gickness,' and 'added÷" There seems very little doubt that the incidence of disease could be appreciably diminished by suitable engineering development and by the introduc- tion of electricity."
out, are no more expensive than a Wardrobe cupboards, he pointed
piece of wardrobe furniture; a par- quet floor costs no more than a good carpet and it in there for ever; and a tiled floor in the hall is about The joint is easily fitted in a
ba. a yard more than a deal floor, minute or two with unskilled ta- but is cleaner and more durable. ONE APPLICATION MADE TO bour, and further in connection Cheap initial costs of houses aro
not as a rule cheap in the long L.C.C. IN THREE MONTHS Urging the importance of special- with cooling water a striking ex-run, and he warned bis audience
ised training in education: Profes- ample of this property is a suction to beware of interior material and
sor Marchant said-" At the pre- workmanship. pipe line 800 feet long, for men water, fitted with 70 "Victaulic"
has been made too wide in its lower sent time the educational ladder
flexible joints, at the Weymouth
is now confirmed in its opinion. rungs. There are too many techni- Corporation Electricity Station and to discriminate between the For years the Council had been cal schools and colleges which are unnecessarily (Dorsetshires). Also the water is good and the bad. They are al- told by all sorts of people that its trying to reach an discharged through a rotary strain mand, more and more the right be higher than 80 feet from the
ready demanding, and will do- refusal to allow trade building to high standard." er pump to the condensers, arrang type of houso, designed by the ground floor to the ceiling of the
right type of persons, who will take highest storey was crippling trade, limit to 100 feet. The Council, how the placing of the various units in and strangling the proper develop last July, when a measure into consideration its appearance, hampering the building industry aver remained unconvinced till their proper order, and the latest ment of London. comforts and improvements,
ed to pass back to the sea again by a pipe 270 feet long, which is fitted with 27 joints, while a num- ber of special connections are also included. This pipe line is almost completely submerged by the sea at high tide, and consequently it had to be erected at great speed be tween the tides, which however caused no difficulty as the joint is made in a few minutes, as stated.
Similarly some remarkable ex amples of the speed and simplicity ot making the joint have been va- rious water pipe lines laid down at collieries in an emergency when ex- tra pumping has to be undertaken as rapidly as possible due to flood- ing. Another advantage also, is that the joint can be made under water, or in an extremely confined spuce such as i tunnels for water, sewage, and gas mains, and gen- erally it is now being realised that the principle of the flexible no against the rigid joint is just as important for water and swage as it has proved to be in the oil ip- dustries, for example,-in-connection, with crude oil and high-pressure natural gas, as well as compressed air in mining.
MACHINERY FOR JAPAN
The
largest, multiple-spindio plane-milling machine in the world has just been built by Messsa Ken- dall & Gent for the Japanese Navy.
The machine weight 220 tons, and has taken 160 men six months to construct Although it is 60 ft. long 21416 bigir uml 2011:
it is capable of the most delicate
work and can be adjusted to
in much less than a haira.breadth.
People are beginning, he said, to take a very keen interest in good de sign, both in houses and furniture,
A woll designed small house, in contrast to some make-believe villa or palace, looks dignified, and a if it has room to breathe. It is satisfied with harmonious material for its walls; it has an entrance similarly shaped windows through- door which welcomes you; and has
Loridon does not like "akyscrap- which has always taken this view, ara." The London County Council,
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passed changing the limit from 80 The Council was puzzled. Few to 100 feet. applications for exceptionally high The committee thon prepared for buildings were made to its commit a rush of applications from all the tee. Moreover, it was held that fire leading firms who, it was rumour- lighting appliances were not such ed, were only waiting for permis- as to justify the risk of raising the sion to heighten their premises. height limit.
The committee are now more cer- But fire-fighting, devices improv. tain than ever that skyscrappers are out. There are no hits stuck on ed, and in 1930 the committee not the Londoner's ideal, for the here and there, and it is not hung thought it might safely raise the total number of applications in about with cheap finery.
(Continued on next column.) three months has been only one,
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