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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1948.
Princess Elizaboth had a' conversation in London the other day with Godfroy, the robot. Horo J. W. Taylor tolls how the
ELECTRONIC BRAIN MAY TRANSFORM THE WORLD
THE recent exhibition of T
Institute of Physics and the Physical Society at the Selence Muzeum, Kensington, illus
the trates how, the application of the electron to industry and science has brought
the fore the immense possibilities arising out of the dis covery of the electron. From this hitherto unsuspected particle, the
There is, foo; he finds, a possible size of which is less than one wide application for electronic de hundred-thousandth of that of the vices for the protection of opera- lightest of atoms, has sprung whole fleid of "electronic engineer gineering processes. In the opern-
mines
and general en- ing." now becoming one of the tigh of machines, devices can world's major Industries.
readily be developed to shut off the duce a portion of his body into a power should tho operator intro- dangerous position. Light beams are so disposed that interruption trips the control mechanism.
the electronic equipment, and danger
of explosion through
fallure can be eliminated by automatically cutting off the supply in the event of failure. By the introduction of an electrode in a pilot flame, failure of the gas supply immediately cuts off the current and closes the main gas valve."
the tives in
Government Ministries and indus trial lenders are closely studying the Andings of Dr H. A. Thomas, principal scientific radio officer of the National Physical Laboratory, in his thesis "Industrial applications of Electronie Techniques" which has won for him the John. Hop- kinson Premium."
or when * and
NEW TECHNIQUES ALREADY new techniques have Abeen evolved for measuring phy- He claims that by adapting to sical quantities which previously Industry the "electronic brain"-it could be measured only by alow han rays which, when interrupted, and laborious methods. Devices can bounce back from an object, or in be arranged to give aural or visual passing through an object, can be indication when certain limits made to cause a measurable electrle production are exceeded or impulse that, can be chain-relayed cartain process is completed, to throw-in switches, disengage can be adapted to control auto. levers, and operate any mechanical matically these limits or processes.
These limits can be established la all-
terms of time, speed, position, tem- 10
perature, pressure, humidity, size, noise etc., or even in shape, colour, terms of chemical changes in
body. composition of a
IL CAP aero differentiate shade mako
to limits well of the capabilities beyond the W cyo and can be applied in
БООП СВИБО
on
pro-
dev in production. mund duce inanpower, Improve quality of goods and perform industrial cesses automatically, just 39 the
Bow "electronic brain"
an plane across the Atlantic to a pinpoint landing.
THE BENEFITS Cleveral large firms are said to have already consulted Dr Thomas about it, and he is now urging that the brains of selence should be teamed up as they were for radar in the war, with the highest priority
to develop the adaptation."
With Government
the
every branch of industry, leading to a greater production of output per man hour, save waste and effect very important improve.
ents in the quality and tency of the goods.
consis-
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I SAY GAA IN
All Cowazil
HERMIONE GINGOLD, the most successful revuo actress in London, Is now nearing the end of hor five-year run in the Sweet and Low series of shows which 700,000 people have paid to see). Here is an analysis of—
The actress with the forked tongue
*ISTORTION of the female
D
form may evoke embar- rassment, or horror, or
By
MILTON SHULMAN
One important field of application laughter. Consequently it is a told me. "When I insult them lies in the control of machine tool risky theatrical device. Yet it means they are famous."
operations; by use of trip switches Miss Hermione Gingold never and full industrial backing, Dr Thomas thinks we
could solve the labour and material. shortages,
mechanically or light-operated the work itself,
by
and that in five years CCS can be sequen- | falters in her use of it.
the benefits to Industry and to humanity, would be "nothing short of spectacular."
Dr Thomas has broadly classified
the
ar-
the black-
Even more devastating, than to perform
her vitriolic asides about people the time without attention. For exam- repetition jobs in minimum Whether sho is portraying are her parodies on familiar ple, electronic control can bo
u three-legged, technicoloured types everyone knows. Who ranged to feed the milling
cutter Into work at 0
pre-selected monstrosity out of Picasso, a has not heard
The historic run of "Sweet the principal of industrial applica- seconds later to another pre-select- Edwardian
automatically switch H
few mouldy, moth-like relic of the gowned, black-gloved, white-
pearled dowager lecturing au- and Low" began in June 1943. tions of electronic devices into the ed speed, rapidly reverse the moter
music-hall, or' a
thoritatively on India after "It was designed to run for a. fields of measurements, industrial, at the end of Instrumentation and control, pro-
the operation by knock-kneed, skeletal spinster
fortnight in Delhi? "India duction, Inspection ald, and pro- means of a limit switch, and anal at the scafront, Miss Gingold
year," Miss Gingold said. "In ly shut down the machine.
has been....for some years fact the three versions of the tection. In this latter connection,
instantaneously manages to burglars, fire raisers, and poultry
.the home of the Indians farm raiders, on whom the black
revue have had 1923 perfor- transform icy repugnance into
.that is why it is called marketeer thrives, are going to have
mances and over 700,000 have a thin time,
India," slowly sputters Dowager paid handsomely to see it. Gingold.
POSSIBILITIES
Thomas
Dpossibilities also, outlines such warm, appreciative laughter.
08 the automalle
And if a manufacturer is honest sorting, packing, weighing and count- For the presentation of these about things, fewer shoddy goods ing of mass-produced products by an characterisations nature has will be turned out. for the arrangement of photo-electric cells, "electronic brain," whilst improving electronic counters, and
relay endowed Miss Gingold with the manufacturing processes, finds out operated mechanisms; the automatic necessary physical properties. and
rejects foulty material and control of motor speeds, the us being She can manipulate her body workmanship. It will even. protect roller speeds in rolling mils the worker from most accidents in determined at each stage by the
slack
the workshops. As for the Spiv, it
would seem that he has almost had his fling.
SIGNAL DEVICES
AYS Dr Thomas: "The technique
Selectronics will allow que
plc burglar alarm systems
ta ckness of the product, so that into geometrical patterns rang
or
of
stretch
a
The facts of Miss Gingold'a And every school-tie in the domestic life come in duplicate. house bobs with carefully- She has had two marriages, gold's portrayal of a cherubic She has no intention of experi- restrained mirth at Miss Gin- two divorces and two children. schoolboy in Eton suit and menting any further matri-
collar gently oozing public monially. a school charm.
Unabashed Mirth
being from a coy eclipse to would avoldelly
lathe 2
following frantic polygon. : She сал
Despite her fame Miss Gln- the contour of a
gold is not satisfied. Knowing, stretch her lips bolh upwards master template so that mass pro-
she can make audiences laugh,. duction of complicated machined and downwards so that only a GENETICISTS interested in she now wants to make them
could be parts
effected without
the usual quivering, red mass is visible:
analysing this source of cry. Her ambition is to play human ald
and
without
intense, tormented, of setting long period
up the between nose and chin. She unabashed mirth, would have Ibsen's volving manually-operated switches machine; of a sample of silk being can alternate her voice between their job cut out for them. For psychopathic "Hedda Gab- tripped by the intruder which passed through a light beam and
at some dis- a flaw detected; of flaws in metal a deep-throated gurgle and a in 1897, is of English, Aus- afraid I might stop in the mid- Miss Gingold, born in London fer." "But," she admits, "I'm signals his presence
devices being spotted signalling tant point. Other
by magnetic and high-pitched squeak, and awal- trinn, Italian and Turkish ex- die and make the bring assistance
supersonic sound methods; of safety Warehouseman
Her father was, of laugh instead."
will
on
bי
if
the per
At 11 she appeared at His Majesty's as the Herald in
fails to "clock in" doors, hoists and lights in mines low with equal dexterity the traction. patrol duties. The protection controlled by photo-cell devices and German umlaut and French all things a stockbroker. of safes dependa upon the change of
the gas-sensitive relays to detect and by the give warning of gas, of capacitance produced
and diphthong. smoke cut burglar which throws out of dust formation: of coal being cut bainnee
suitable bridge clrcult. at
at the face
without a team of men The same principle applies to the by cutters automatically fed to give protection of boundaries and land.
"Fire can be detected
an alarm given by using temperature sensitive devices and associated
and
The bars are to keep in
the wild money.”
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Commencing To-Morrow: "DO YOU LOVE ME?”
TO-DAY
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THE PICTURE WITH A TERRIFIC CLIMAX!
NANCY Change of Pace
tho
Acidic Wit
without output maximum damaging the cutting equipment,
Ho explains that there are opened up Pocking, sterilisation and companied by the skilful
new possibilities in connection dehydration of foodstuffs, cemeting abundant use of bright, biting.
and
audience
Broadway Bound
"Pinkie and the Fairies." By AT the moment Miss Gingold chief concern is whether 16 she had done professional or not Americans will clasp gro- roles in Shakespeare and was "Sweet and Low" to their BUT all this would be
ac- considered a child progidy by transatlantic tesque if it were not
bosoms if she and Sir Herbert Tree. As a States. She feels they might, such authorities as Ellen Terry takes the revue to the United result her education was spas- because Americans love scath- modic and brief.
ing satire as much as or even more than Britons do plastic impregnation, or compressed As each cruel barb, tipped
For the next 20 years her wood impregnated with resin as a with verbal vemon, finds its life was a series of effective, Miss Gingold realises, how- result of dielectric heating.
target, one can almost hear the serious, but uneventful, drama- ever, that an intimate
of furniture to supersede glue joints
new materials acidic wit. and production of comprising paper, with resinous or
revue
At the exhibition, which cele-hiss of excess air escaping from tie parts on the stage and air. concerned with London person- brated the fubilee of the discovery
In Miss Lily Malone in "Hotel Uni- alities, ration books, British by Professor J. J. Thomas, at Carn- each deflated ego.
verse,"
Camille in "Mounte- pictures and snock would make bridge, of the existence and libera-Gingold's revue, "Sweeteat and banks." Annie in "Matinee" little sense to most Americans. sion of the electron, Sir Clifford
scientist, Lowest," few West End per- they read like jottings in a She therefore plans to make Paterson, distinguished repeatedly interrupted a trumpet sonalities emerge unscathed. ruke's notebook.
generous revisions, voluntary to demonstrate how the
But it was not until she be But if any British comedian music could be transmitted along a Noel Coward, Margaret gan to appear in light comedy can make Americans laugh, it beam of light and could be cut by Lockwood, Robert Helpmann, revues just before the war that seems safe to predict that the a piece of paper or a wave hand.
Mason, the West End began to take Gingold with the herring in her From Professor Thompson's as deftly punctured with carefree, notice. Her demoniac bits in hat, the bow-legged Gingold "The Gate Revue" and "Rise wrapped around a 'cello, or the covery care broadcasting, the careless and impartial abandon. Above It" established her talkies, radar, the electron-miero And do her victims protest? one of Britain's leading come tongue and stinging wit, very as gentle Gingold with the forked scope, the deaf-aid, tubular lighting and the "electronic brain.”
"They love it," Miss Gingold diennes.
probably 'can. ·
of the
Ivor Novello, James
James MASON
Mary CLARE *
Wifred
• LAWSON
Joyco HOWARD in
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