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Canton. With the object of look-
ing after the condition of highways YEN HSI SHAN'S PROJECTS already opened, and of promoting the early completion of lines now being built in the province, the provincial Bureau of Reconstruc tion in Canton has decided to or ganize an inspection corps te look into the condition of all highways and to render whatever, assistance that may be necessary.
PRINCE GEORGE CUTS INVISIBLE RAY
To Open New Power, Station
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Sheffield, April 11.-By cutting been made for open and easy aceros an invisible ray with a movement, to the plant
station re-
The
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At the luncheon the Lord Mayor EXPERIMENTS IN GERMANY of his hand Prince George to-day.
opened the new electric power sta (Alderman Ernest Wilson) presid- Full-scale experiments have been tion, at, Blackburn Meadows, Sheed. Councillor John Green, chair made in Germany on the producffiold. As the ray was cut a Union man of the Electric Supply Com tion of a new type of cement, in Jack hanging on the wall slid away, mittee, said the new which the magnesia content is con- revealing a bronze tablet comme presented the latest effort in the
field of electrical supply. siderably above that allowed by the morating the opening ceremony.
The Prince arrived in Sheffield opening of the station synchronised German standard specification for
by air, and was entertained to with the bringing into operation of Portland cement,
lunch at the Royal Victoria Hotel, the national electricity grid scheme
The actual opening ceremony for the area.
Prince George said tha tthe ser lasted only about five minutes, and the Prince then went on a tour of vices for which electricity could be inspection of the power station. He used were always increasing and asked numerous technical questions it was therefore most necessary on the capacity of the boilers and that, the means of producing it other matters, and was greatly im- should be sufficient to meet all pos pressed with the provision that had sible requirements.
Thus two cements with 8 and 25 per cent. Magnesis respectively
from have been produced Following Dr. Brown's visit to mixes of marl and dolomitic lime- Shansi and Shepsi last October, stone, and of clay, dolomitic lime and the" proposals of definite stone and a small proportion o schemes for river conservancy, etc., burned pyrites. The results at put forward by the Provincial standard tests on the cements are Government through the Local to demonstrate them to be equiva Famine Relief Committee, the Falent to good rapid-hardening Port- mine Relief Association through its land cement. No trace of unsound- The plans provide for the ap chief engineer has commenced a ness was observed. The лате pointment of a technical head of series of socurate surveys of the "Magnesite Portland" has been the proposed corps and twa techni- Fan river proportion of the Bur-suggested-for-this-cement cal assistants together with other veyors being former students of the members of the staff. As soon as Shansi University. It is intended ------ these plans are approved a staff to take a comprehensive view of will be appointed so that they may be able to set out immediately on their mission in different parts of the province,
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The uses of X-rays and radium wers compared, and the particular advantages of radium illustrated by large number of radiographs, X-rays have overwhelming advant- ages in the examination of metallic structures up to a thickness of about three inches.
the relief works required through- ployment of photographic intensify out the province in order to en- ing screens to shorten exposures, sure the maximum benefits from it is not possible to reply on cal
où the inverse any funds that may eventually beculations based come available for this work. The square law. dam built across the Fen Ho at Ching Yuan for irrigation pur- poses, some 30 miles south of Tai- Juanfu, and the large spans in the river bridge on the Fenchowiu road on the west of the city are examples of what can be done in a limited way to improve local conditions. For the former struc- small levy on all highways for the ture a certain amount of outside financial assistance was obtained. The cost of the latter was met en- tirely of provincial revenues.
It is further suggested that if the initial activities of the inspec- tion corps prove successful and the permanent existence of such a body for the general improvement of highways in the province is found necessary,
the Corps will later be made a department of the Reconstruction Bureau. In such case, it is proposed to impose a
maintenance of this body.
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The bridge, which is of consi- derable length, is supported on or answer to application made by the management of the dinary short timber piles and with short spans. Every year the aum- Sunning Railway, the Reconstruc-
mer floods washed' a part of it tion Bureau, pursuant to instruc- tions from higher authorities, has away, resulting in a serious break in communications for several issued orders to the builders of a months as reconstruction could not public highway in Toishan to re-
commence until flood waters had frain from building a portion of subsided. There has been no break a highway parallel to the Suri- since the four now spans each of ning Railway. It is understood, 100 feet were built. Incidentally, that it is the intention of the au- the foundations of the dam and thorities to eliminate as far as pos- the bridge-timber piles supporting sible competition between railroads a concrete raft-illustrate the diff and highways in the country, where culties encountered on such work communication facilities have not in the Fen valley where rock is been fully developed so that there overlain in almost unknown thick- is no need for builders of highness of alluvium und stratified ways to run too close to railway. toess. Under such conditions the -Gnaton Sun.
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river naturally moves its bed very considerably at irregular intervala and tas a result irrigation schemes also involve training works.
It is reported that Yen Hsi Shan is now definitely inviting tenders from European firms for perma- nent way equipment for the first section of the Tung-Fu (Tatung- Puchoufu) Railway that is from a point about 60 miles north of Tal- yuan to Chiehsin, south of Yu Tzu, a total distance of 120 miles ap- proximately. A small commission, the members of which are foreign trained metallurgists, has been sent to Europe to study and re- port on railway mattore general- ly.-Y. C. D. Newa.
USES OF RADIUM
GROWING ENGINEERING
PRACTICE
In the field of non-destructive testing, X-rays have achieved a de- finite if limited function. The con- siderablé advances which have been made in this direction and the use of radium as a radiographic agent were made the theme of a recent paper by Mr. V. E. Pullen, Direc- tor of Radiological Research at the Research Department, Woolwich, and presented to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
to
The paper was mainly devoted
a discussion of the properties. of radium as a radiographic agent, to show how it compares in value with the older X-ray method. The disintegrative theory of radioactive materials was outlined, äid the re- lativo wavelengths of various com- ponents of the so-called electro- magnetic spectrum used to indicate roughly their penetrating power were given. **G
The method of preparing radon was described, as it has the great advantage that its use affords an approximation to 's point source of radiation.
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Handling and Etorage... Careful directions werd given for the safe handling and storage of the element, The exposure camera: used at the Research Department, WAS. described, and curves given indicating safe work- ing distances for operators. Many experimental refinements making for clear radiography were mon. tioned...
In the case of X-rays the effect of scattered radiation militates seriously against and results, wheresa in gamma-ray photography there 18 pratically no such, haT THE ful result. Hence heavy irregular specimens may be radiographed by radium in parhapa one exposure. Exposure curves for radium bas ed upon experimental data obtain- ed in the author's laboratory were given. Owing to the general em. (Continues oni peat Column).
NEW CHINESE RAILWAY CO. ESTABLISHED
Shanghai, April 13A new rail. way company to be known as the Kiangnan railway company, will be formally established in Shanghai on April 19 for the special purpose of constructing a railway between Wuhu, on the Yants in Anhuk and Shapu, To Chekiang. The company is formed by prominent merchants in Shanghai and Che kiang with an initial capital of one million dollars.
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An agreement has been made. between Richard Thomas and Co. and the Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., under which billets will ba supplied by Richard Thomas and Ch. From their Redbourn Sicol Works to the Whitehead Rolling Mills at Newport, Mon.
Arrangementa have also been
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Redboura Works. These mills will Surveying work is already in be the joint property of the two
between Radium, on progress
Wuhu companies. It is hoped that the the other hand, may be employed Hsuanchen points of the railway present plant of the Redbourn in the investigation of metals up and construction is due to commence Works will be in fall production to eight inches or more in thick before the end of this month. before the end of June.
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