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ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SALESROOMS
The salesroom of the New York Branch of the Buick Motor Compasy at 55th Street and Broadway. New York, sells and delivers more cars and more dollars worth of automobiles than any other salesroom in the world. And ita sales are increasing all the time.
This Buick Branch delivered, during 1923, 24,565 dow Buicks, representing a cash value of $39,391,918. In 1924, it is expected, that about 30,000. care will be delivered, a business of over $50,000,000. Few if any of the great New York department stores will do as great a volume of business.
From August 1, 1924, to May 16, 1824, deliveries of this Branch amounted to 20,139 Buicks as compared with 16,295, deliveries for the same period the preceding year. This represents an increase of 3,844 cars, or a 23-}% gain. Sales of this Branch for the first two weeks of May 1924, were 1,231 Buicks as compared with 943 sold in the same period last year. This is an increase of over 30%. It is no wonder that a record breaking volume of business is expected for the new season,
Because the value of Buick output has each year been greater than that of any other exhibitor, Buick has held first place in every National Automobile Show in the United States during the last six years. In 1923, Buick sold 218,516 motor cars, representing a value of $302,752.950 not including war tax or freight. In the New York district alone 12-5/10% of the 88,026 new cars sold in 1923 were Buicks.
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26, Queen's Road Central,
Telephone No. Central 1036.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
Wireless and the Forecasting of Earthquakes.
Radio is coming to the front in foolver of this, type can tune in soismatic observation, and if the oasily on stations up to 600 mlios' experiments now being conducted away, under good atmospherio] in Japan aró sucosbeful it will inconditioun.
all probability be possible to foro-But the great objection to the tell the occurronéo of earth-Copp circuit is that it causes quakes, and thus rob this act of trouble to nofghbouring fans-lt nature of many of ite devastating reradiates. effects.
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This can be easily avoided, howevor, if the operator of a Copp circuit set uses care in tuning in. The tube can be kept just below the oscillation point, to avoid trouble to others, and at the same time bring in the best results.
Parts for the set shown horo
OL, 43-plate variable vornier condensor, 001 mfd.
02, fixed condonsor, .001 infd. 03, grid look and condenser. .00025 mfd.
For many years past instru- Imants have boon doyoloped that rocord earthquake shooks, but it has not yet Boon found possible to discover a undthod by which it can be determined whon and where they will cour.
Earthquakes, generally speak-Include: ing, are of two distinct types: those accompanied by volcanic eruptions and those from earth alides. To the geologist and soismologist an earthquako le tho rosult of como suddon displaco- ment within the earth's crust, and whether tectonic or volcanic it represents to thom something to bo explained by rusaarch, but to the rest of the world it la a horror.
Selontiste havo beon working since 1883 with many forms of soismograph instruments which are extremely sensitivo to Jany ruptura occurring in the surface of the earth and which sro capable of measuring oscilla- tions from the opposito side of the earth.
L1, L2, variocoupler. Six ohm vernier rhooste L. Switch lever, Roven tape and two switch stops.
One tubo socket.
Six binding poste, one pound No. 16 DCC wiro, bus wiro for connections, phone jack, panol and baso.
The entire receiver can bo constructed on an 8-inch panel and a bass 6 inchós by 12 inches.
The variocoupler may be mado as follows:
The primary, of No. 16 DCC wiro, ie wound on a place of 4- inch dielectric tubing 6 inches long. This heavy size wire is choson, because it has less loss. than the lighter variety and therefore gives much oloaror and. stronger rosuits..
The standard instruments usod are of the type which employs a suspended mass, the framework of which is attached to the earth's surlato, says Popular Wireless, A noodle attached to the suspond- od mass is actuated on the lover principle so as to give a greatly Wind 20 turns of this wiro amplified movement on a graphed about the primary, taking a tap smoked paper, the principle in- off overy 10th turn and running volved being that the suspended each to the switch points. Tho weight tonds to remain in poel-contro of the switch goes to the tion, while the earth movos under ground and the positivo of tho it. Various types of this ap. A battery, which in turn is con-1 paratus are in use in some three nected to the nogative of the B hundred soismatical stations battery. throughout the world, and while sanoitive enough to record earth- quakes, can in no way correctly insasure minute slips of the earth strains which precodo a big earth- quake.
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For the secondary; a 34-inch ball rotor may be used, or a tube of that nizo. Wind 17 turns of the No. 16 wire on either side off the brass rod that goes through the centre of the tubing and con- neots with a dial on the panel.
The aerial should be taken to the rotor platos of the variable condenser and the stator plates of this condensor should be joined to the grid condenser and to the beginning of the primary stator of the variocoupler.
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The radio-seismograph, how-. ovor, is capable of measuring the slightest movement or sound omanating from either the porous donao strata immodiately bolow the surface, and by study ing the various sounds and here- tofore indiscernible vibrations, it is hoped that it may be possibla Try only 164 volts of the B to discover some method of fore battery voltage, on the platos at telling not only the location of an first, and increase gradually up expooted earthquako or volcanic to 2219 volts if you find more sruption, but also its magnitudo. volume will be produced without Earthquake waves are -very distortion or resultant battery similar in their directional | noises.
squeal is hoard. Then turn the knob back vary slightly to the point just before the squeal comes in. The rheostat may be left at this point for all time. It is just bofore the oscillation point.
action to light waves от In tuning for the first time, radio wavos, as they travel in a turn the ricostat knob until straight line in all directions from the source of their emanation.
The use of a sorios of radio- solsmatic instruments to locate the direction from which the sounds are coming is therafore i necessary, so that the area can be Next act the switch at about charted in a similar manner to the third or fourth point and turn which ships are given their boar the rotor until a slight rushing ings along the coast by triangula-noiso is hoard Then turn the tion. So that it will be necessary variable condenser to the point) to have three stations working in where the station comes in clear- conjunction to make the obsórva-ast and loudest. tions.
If no station is hoard, set tho The exact detalls of these radio switch at another point and instruments are not generally | repeat with rotor and condonker. known, but are believed to be a method of clamping on this earth's' floor highly sensitive radio pick-
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dovices and then through amplification and the use of an Oscillograph to record all motions and noises.
A SIMPLE CIRCUIT.
The "Copp" Still Popular. In spite of the Independence aud Despite the howls gainst it, the rosource of the modern girl, the simple Copp circuit remains most days have yet to come when she popular of all. There are three will bo able to do without "ald" seasons for this: and "caro" when travelling about| It is cheap. It is onsy to build.. the country, says a London paper. It is easy to control.
The latest report of the Travol- Boeidos, it has the advantages lore Aid Society, which exists to of sonsitivity, long range and help girls and women, shows that strong signals. A single tubo re- thoir work has grown greater than ever. Statistics reveal that in the past 12 months-3,307 wo- men and girls have boon met at London stations and dosks: 234 have been assisted ́abroad, and 577 "atray cases" have been put on the right road.
Along journey alone, espoolally for the first time, still has its mis- | givings to English girls. The idea! of orossing London appais como ¡of thoin.
This is where the Travellers' Aid Sooloty, who are on good torms with polios and railway officials, step In.
During the last year the society has given food and eholtor to French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Rumanian, Greek, Jewish and others besides British
BLEEPY SIVENESS. The epidemic in Britain of encephalitis lothargica (Sloopy alokness) has by no means paas- ed away, though it has consider. ably abated. No fewer than 15 frosh cases were notified in Loo- don, and 68 cases in England and Walos recently: The outbreak is without any precedent without | a break from February 1 till tho prosent time, and has amounted. in England and Wales, to 3,976 casos in the period from Tobruary 2 to August 2. In the earlier opidomics the cases were RD- bored only in hundreds, and the trouble was over, as a rule, by the middle of April.
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