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Wuhu, April 26. The ceremony of breaking ground for the new Wuhu-Chapoo Railway, which is to link up the important Anbwai river port with the Che London, April 18. kiang coast, took place here yes A new type of marine oil engins terday in the presence of a large has been invented at the works of gathering incluing prominent offi. Mesra Crossley Brothers, of Mancials and representatives of the chester. It is considered to be one Kiangnan Railway Company, Ltd.; of the most important research dis- which is undertaking the construc coveries by a Manchester engineer- tion. The ceremony was presided ing firm for some years. Inquirise over by Mr. Chang Ching Kiang, have already been received from Chairman of the National Recon various foreign firms,"
struction Commission, who is one of the active promoters of the pro- ject..
The unit embodies a new princi- ple of a two-stroke engine with separate scavenging pump to re- move exhaust gases and inject fresh air For the combustion charge. It it built for propelling small tugs, coasting vessels, fishing boats and other small craft. It is controlled directly from the bridge and can be changed from forward to reverse drive in three seconds by the sim- ple operation of turning, a small control wheel on the bridge.
NEW NANKING OBSERVATORY
24-IN. ZEISS TELESCOPE SHIPPED TO CHINA
Speaking on behalf of Mr. Chang, Mr. Liu Shih Heia, Chief Secretary of the National Reconstruction Commission, called attention to the fact that the Wahu-Chapoo Rail- way will be the first privately built railway in China and expressed the hope that it will serve to arouse popular interest in railway con- struction so that the Government may benefit by the people's support for similar projects.
Gratification was expressed by Mr. Lin I Yen, Anhwei Provincial Commissioner of Reconstruction, over the fact that the projected line will greatly assist in the deve- lopment of Wuhu, the chief port of Anhwei, and indirectly benefit the province. He paid high tribute to Mr. Chang Ching Kiang, eulo gizing him as the faremont advo cate of constructive enterprises In A Zeiss reflecting telescope, said China, and expressed thanks on be to be the largest of its kind in this half of the people of Anhwei to the .country, was recently shipped to promoters of the enterprise. Shanghai from Germany for the In reply," Mr. Hung Shen, Chie? Observatory of the Academia Sini-Engineer of the Wuhu-Chapoo da, in Purple Mountain, Nanking. Railway, outlined the immediate The instrument is principally in-programme for the construction" of tended for photographic purposes the line. He said that tenders will and, with its special optical equip be invited in the immediate future- ment, the light even from very dis- for the building of the first section tant suns can be examined by spec from Wuhu to Sunkiapu, & dis- trum analysis. Exposures lasting tance of 80 kilometres. This sec- many haura can be made with thistion is expected to be completed in telescope. Buch long exposures are ten months. necessary when the extremely faint.
light of the feeblest stars is to be
coaxed into leaving its record on
THE DEPRESSION
the photographic plate. To attain ELECTRICITY BEATS this purpose, it is necessary among other things, for the tube with the mirror to be kept exactly in step with the stars by the action of the clockwork. This calla for watch like precision in the great shafts and geare, that move the 6,600 lb. instrument.
Britain Now Takes Third
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To enable the astronomer to check this movement of telescope and camera, a second.alender tele- scope is attached parallel to the main tube, with which this check tricity by public supply systems London. The generation of elec can be carried out by keeping alowed an increase of over 7 per certain star selected for the pur-cent. in 1932, compared with 1831, .pose under cross lines.
The observer's platform, which first time, into third place in the and brought Great Britain, for the can be raised, lowered, or turned by electricity, enables the astro- nomer to follow at his ease any movement of this instrument. From this point, the observer, in charge of this telescope will be able, by merely pressing varioua push but tona, to direct all movements of the instrument as well as of the stage and the dome...
world production of electricity.
That is revealed in the fifth an nual report of the Central Electri city Board, issued recently.
The demand for electricity in the severely depressed areas, particu larly on the North-East Coast and in Scotland, tended to remain steady and even to show an up- ward trend as compared with 1931, while the Midlands and England registered a very considerable in-
croase.
The telescope, which was landed hors under the supervision of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. local agents of Carl Zeiss, Jéna, will be installed in Nanking at the begin-made during the year in opening Considerable progress had been ning of June next. Arrangements up now and outlying areas, much have been made with the Zeiss of this development being based works for an expert to come to upon the Board's secondary trans China for the installation..
mission lines in Sussex, Lincoln- shire, Cumberland, and South Scotland,
SMOKELESS STEAM WAGGON
Northern Scotland, "No scheme for North Scotland. has yet been formulated," states the report. During the year the Board were consulted by the Elec tricity Commissioners on the out- line, of a scheme which the latter were considering for the extension of the grid to North Scotland, and. the Board agreed with them that a scheme for that area should be de- forred for the time being,"
London, April 10. Members of both Houses of Par- liament, bave bead invited to in spect a novel steam waggon which is to be demonstrated next week at Westminster. The important fea- ture about this waggon is that, though it is steam-operated and coal-fuelled, it emita no dirty smoke to pollute the atmosphere, and in
Work was well advanced on the addition it is so, tyred as to be al transforming and switching sta most poiseless when in motion. This tions through which supplies from revolution in steam waggon prac- the grid would be furnished. In tice has been made possible by the all 244 out of the total of 273 of use of smokelesa coal produced by these stations had been finished or the low temperature carbonisation were nearing completion. process. The driver is not called The cost of constructing the upon to touch a single piece of the grid," it is stated, is now ascer fuel, which passes automatically tainable within narrow limits, al- from a mechanical stoker to the though some small degree of estí furnace and is crashed to the cormation is still necessary in respect rect size on the wayIt is claim of work not yet completed and.
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