Models
ZAGROPLE
SZUNKNOW
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER - 14, 1950,
OF COMMONS CHAMBER
Important Role
In Work Of Scientists
By Trevor Williams
ODEL-MAKING as a
-cf several possible forms of the molecular architecture is most probable; when the mola
at o sub- The influence of this model cular architecture
dig- been Iaboratory on the dance has anally popular hobby has frating
world's shipping In enormous, covered the scale model often greatest suggests the existence of pro- followers; for
Britain-the much less generally known chipbuilding nation, of all-very perties which had not previous-
are bullt ly been suspected. is that it plays an impor- few merchant ships tant role in many different without their design being first
many
in
of
For
the is of Model-making
many kinds of scientific research tested in the tank at the Na- greatest importance in
ilonal
ether fields of research. Physical Laboratory. 01- Another Department
example, at a new laboratory Chemists, physicists.
Re- being bull by the Department other Scientifle and Industrini many gineers, and
example of
of Selentine and Industrial Re- search model-an
on the rearch
Thames for experts make extensive usO
fine workmanship-illustrates of models in their work.
interesting research. Initinted in hydraulles research, models will and measure be of primary importance. In a The importance of models 1010, to detect
em movements suspected to be oc- 250 foot long tank, in which is to the scientist
that surring in the Tower of Lon waves can be created at will, of London's most problems of coastal erosion will phasised by the fact
historic buildings
be studied. A 350 feet channel,
rless, one
this year, for the first time, famous
the Model Engineers' Ex Micrometers which have been 12 feet wide, will be used to the engineering study problems in controlling hibition in London an installed by
division of the National Phyl- the flow of rivers.
mual
of
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cal Laboratory show that the Other models will include a quay wall at the Tower, a man- detailed dive stone structure which in
scale-model of
the
Estuary, with the help
of ex- places in a hundred yards thick. Foich problems of silling. |
eagerly awaited
thousands event for amateur enthusiasts
number calcel
submitted Government laboratories to ilustrate the part which models play in research.
hibits
by is gradually moving away from
the Thames.
Recording Instruments within the bull show the forces acting different condi- on it under tions. For example, waves can be produced to simulate natural conditions at sen.
WIND-TUNNEL
From
atlied
the some
Measures
of
VENTURE
an exact model of the system of vessels,
im-
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NEW HOUSE
This drawing of the new House of Commons Chamber Dennis Flanders and published recently in the Daily Telegraph. The new House is to be opened by His Majesty the King on October 26.
was made by
Roosevelt in Retrospect
OOSEVELT was a man greatest vole-getter in Ameri- velt did.
emer-
Yet,
YOUR
A JOLT TO
MEMORY
FIFTY-SEVEN
years suffered by the refugees who-
dragged their way in corts nnd vans
cr on foat from East
1G of
ago, a boy watched seagulla circling Prussia will the Russians
in the wintry sky above hammering at their heels, London Bridge and wrote n
It has caught, too, the bleak little essay about it. The hopelessness of thaso who Daily Chronicle published survived to live in the cellars of the essay.
Berlin when the war ended.
Children died in the snow, Since then, the author women idled themselves,, men Philip Gibbs, has made a lost their
2
reason
in
the trek to what
It is
world reputation A3 nagonisingly slow journalist, and has publish. they hoped was safety.
ed 56 books. Today, at the important to be reminded that age of 73, he publishes his such things come from war,
for book is important. 57th. "THINE ENEMY”・ Tho
another reason, Twice in our (Hutchinson, 10. Gd.).
lifetime the pearo of the worki Anony the titles of his earlier has been broken by Germany. books are "Out of the Ruins," "Cross of Peace," "Cities of and Refuge," "Battle Within,"
"Through the Storm." Any
BOOK OF THE DAT
by J.P.W. Mallallen,
ог
211
of
uties these would tit
This Enemy.
which builds
MA.P.
0
of
It is vital to us that Germany should not again be a source from which such horror springs.
The Corman mind
DHILIP GIBBS tries to reveal. p
German minds as they re for
novel out today-those which work the crash revenge, those which work for
which
o f Hitler's atorment, and those out of the barely work at all. Germany, and twilight life among the ruins,
Maybe this determination to "Thine interpret sometimes lessens the I do not think that Enemy" is a great book. The drama of the reporting. But it
the. which story moves quickly and is held heightens our sense of the pre- together neatly. · But some of cipitous dangers
present rulern of Germany look the characters seem wooden, as
them over today. though their author sw
an convenient dummies, aspects of illustrating various his theme.
R3 we have only
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For example:-
"She caught her breath for a moment as though a soh had risen to
ber throat, but then spoke again quietly.
and
will dredging
be studied. Alrendy there are in London, housed in a shed the Royal Victoria Docks, de- scale models of the
niels of division
failed
constructed to model of the super Thames Estuary, A striking exhibit is provided comes a by the Ship Division of Br cenic wind tunnel which played artist the work of the Port of waruma London Authority. Yet another Severn is of the speeds model toin's Department of Scicate an important part in
on fight at and Industrial Research. In research
which greater than that of sound. In Estuary; it will help in the de
proposed Severn the great testing tanke was built at the National Phy- this wind-tunnel-the only one firm of the
at Tedding of its kind avaliable to any of hurrage. sleal Laboratory
the nations for 1000, the in ton, in Middlesex,
desigas entre part of the war-scale reale models of new
their models of German V-2 rackets,
In the teaching of science, can be towed along for performance to be determined, constructed to secretly collected
data, were tested before e sin els are of increasin INFLUENCE
gle one was actually launched portance. For example, medi- The Informacal research workers have de- study of these yeloped a new technique where- against Britain. tion gained by a
Rof his times, and what can history. Thirty-one out of pointed out, he wa Liberal; he an important by a liquid plastie is injected. models played
Into hollow cavities, mich those formed by the complex times they were!-chaotic, the four times he rat. His in beneved in free enterprise and
far from having the profit system. Blood vessels and air spaces in catastrophic, revolutionary, fluence. art in the defence
The liquid then seta
1 is not beyond the bounds taken against them.
The Aerodynamics Division the lungs. These tests
30 or probably increased.
of possibility that whole during the greatest enable modifications to be made has another wind-tunnel; in this
his years from now the country will the history of When Mr Truman won
further to improve the efficiency and model aeroplanes can be tested to a hard, rubbery solid giving epochal-he was President diminished since his death, hag
gency in
In 1948, have swung so much victory and he never let surprising
"You've been through worse mankind,
which was made possible in left that whint F.D.R. stood Lor
of as almost things. They've been an outrage mankind -
part by the politient Influence will be thought
Lenctionary.
to your former censibilities, You love beauty as an artist and you left behind by F.DR.. It was altogether fitting that a London
ugllness and Also Roosevell's career nice.
only have scen From the Chemical Research
beastliness. One day you will newspaper should head its story ly disproves nn essential
stituent of Marxism. Laboratory is submitted a new
All that will get back again.
mind. They "Roosevelt's Fifth Term." form of the models by, which
the
Tade from your principle of class war: His chemists are accustomed, as an
Mrs Roosevelt has said that entire life refutes the Marxist
were not your fault. You were course of in the whole
his important aid to their research,
thesis. He was a rich man and
the helpless instrument of evil career there was never any de- to reproduce, on an enormously
an aristocrat; but he did more
powers. ob- 00- magnified scale, the Bonge
But he took history in viation from his original
for the underpossessed than any beiter make life ments of the individual atoms
American who ever lived.
Does anyone ever for the averago man,
that? characteristic of the hundreds
enough, and gallantry of thousands of different sub- scientifle purposes calls for his stride; he had vision Jective-io and child." the work of ctances which they study. Some high precision and provides
new outlet for
are oomph and zip und de- of the utmost sober conserva- ex skilled crationen. Models models of this kind are tremely detailed, and show even Lecoming so widely demanded tonair benevolence enough tim say that they think F.D.R.
that their con-to foresee the supreme saved the country from the distribution of the electrons by scientists
atomie struction is all -the smallest of
creating a small but!
crises of our cra, overcome revolution in 1932. important new craft,
nation particles.
specialised as some of the an-them, and lead the cient crafts which, by its con-out of the worst dangers it stant provision of new methods has ever faced.
Roosevelt was of mass production, the applica- lion of science to daily life has;
political carnpaigner
economy of the final vessel.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
At
"Please, darling, forget my anti-clippie sttitude in the strike--will you marry me?"
under strictly controlled condi- tions, so that the force which Let on them under different flv-
Int conditions enn be precisely in scientiße model-making history
casured.
PROPERTIES
These models serve a double purpose. On the one hand they are useful in the early stages
10 -
venture Another interesting cently started in Britain is the manufacture of complete model down.
keletons made in plastic; these
because of the His very defects reflected are needed
the unprecedented strains great shortage and high of
natural material. Museums of all kinds make ex-and stresses of the decades
de- he lived in. tensive use of models for monstration purperes.
the
The making of most models
c research to Indicate which siowly destroyed,
B
a
woman,
I have heard men
overt
He created the pattern of the
made it function. To be a re- modern democratic State, and former alone is not enough. A reformer must make reform ef- the fective. This certainly
the greatest
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
'700
BAD!"
# THE BANES CAN'T COME AND THE JONES'S WILL
HAVE TO GO ON THROUGH... CAN'T
STOP OVER!
and
Roose
D
=
#
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From "Roosevelt
con- nomely.
in Retros- pect," published by Hamish Hamilton. It is the newest book by John Gunther, sets
talk like
The refugees
or
out with characteristle fair BUT, eat
Enemy" is important. The
not, "Thine packs into 412 pages all that
which could calch the could reasonably be gathered pen
and beauty of circling gulis half a about the personal life work of Roosevelt. Immense-century ago today has caught ly readable.
the mental and physical horror
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