Important
Models'
Work
In
By Trevor
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1980.
Role
Of Scientists
Williams
ODEL-MAKING as a The Infuence of this model-
M popular hobby has testing
many
en-
the
on laboratory world's shipping is enormous,
of
of several possible forme of the molecular architecture Is most probable; when the mole- cular architecture of a sub- dis- stance has Anally been covered the scale model often
followers; for in Britain-the greatest suggests the existence of pro- much lean generally known chiplading nation of all-very periles which had not previous-
are built ly been suspected.
Model-making ls of The is that it plays an impor- few merchant thipa
greatest importance in many tant role in many different without their design being first tested in the tank at the Na-
ether fields of research. For kinds of scientific research. tional Physical Laborátery.
Department
Iaboratory example, at a new Another Chemists, physicists,
Re being built by the Department other Scientific and Industrial many gineers, and
example of of Selentide and Industrial Re- illustrate rearch on the Thomes for experts make extensive uko Frarch model-
fine workmanship interesting research. inillated in hydraulics research, models will of modela in their work.
and measure be of primary importance. In a The importance of models 1916, to detect
in which em- movements suspected to be oc- 250 foot long tank. iH to the scientist
waves can be created at will. of London's most problems of coastal erosion will phasised by the fact that curring in the Tower of Lon-
historic
buildings. he studied. A 350 feet channel, this year, for the first time, famous the Model Engineers' EX Marameters which have been 12 feet wide, will be used
the engineering Muly problems in controlling hibition in London - un installed by
cal Laboratory how int eagerly awaited
sunnual
event for thousanda
don, one
to
division of the National Physt- the flow of rivers.
the Ollier models will include a
of which problems of sliting-
dredging will Up and
of
amateur enthusiasts
In
In
cluded a
hibits
ex. by submitted Government laboratories to illustrate the part
number
of
quay wall at the Tower, a mas detalled scale-model of the
ve stone structure which pitres is a hundred yards thick, Forth Estuary, with the help in gradually moving away from the Thames.
be
which
models play in research.
A striking exhibit is provided
WIND-TUNNEL
From
comes i
same
tain's Department of Scientific an important part in nt speeda model
the great testing anks
Brale models of new
Recording instruments within the in show the forces neling different condi- or it under tions. For example, waves can be reduced to simulate natural conditions at sea. These tests
crable modifications to be made to improve the efficiency and economy of the final vessel.
nations for
of
the
VENTURE
In-
de-
NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMBER A JOLT TO YOUR
This drawing of the new House of Commons Chamber was made by Dennis Flanders and published recently in the Daily Telegraph. The new House is to be opened by His Majesty the King' on October 26.
Roosevelt in
OOSEVELT was a man frentest vole-getter
Retrospect
in Ameri- velt did.
Rohy times, and what can history. Thirty-one out of pointed out, he was a Conser
F
ngo,
-
MEMORY
„IFTY-SEVEN years suffered by the
refugees who 16 dragged their way in carts and boy of
vans or on foot from East watched sengulia circling Prussia with the Russiaus in the wintry aky above hammering at their heels. London Bridge and wrote a It has caught, too, the blenk little essay
about it. The hopelessness of thozo who
♫ lost
renson
in
men the
Daily Chronicle published survived to live in the cellars of the essay.
Berlin when the war ended.
Children dled in the snow, Since then, the author.
women killed themselves,
their Philip Gibbs, has mado world reputation 118
gonisingly slow trek to what It is journalist, and has publish- they hoped was safely. ed 66 books. Today, at the important to be reminded that
such Wings come from war, age of 73, he publishes his
The ENEMY"
book is important for 57th. "THINE
another reason. Twice in our (Hutchinson, 10s. Gd.).
lifetime the pence of the world has been broken by Germany. Amony the titles of his earlier books are "Out of the Ruins,"
It is vital to us that Germany ot "Cities "Cross of Peace,"
should not again be a sourco Retuge," "Batilo Within." and from which such horror springs,
BOOK OF
THE DAY
by J.P. W. Mallalleu,
M.P
"Through the Storm" Any
or
ότ all
lc thvae would fit
Thing
nema
which
novel out
The Garman. mind ·
PHILIP
HILIP GIBBS tries to reveal German mhida as they are for today-those which work
of the crash revenge, those which work for which
o f Tutler's atonement, and lose of the barely work at all. out Germany, and twilight life among the ruins.
Maybe this determination to "Thing Interpret sometimes lessons the I do not think that Enemy" is a great book. The drama of the reportingt. But it
which dangers story moves quickly and is held heightens our sense of the pre-
But some of cipitous together. neatly, the characters seem wooden, ns present rulers of Germany. look
them ever today. though their author saw only as convenient dummies,
aspects of lustrating various
his theme.
For example:-
"She caught her breath for a moment as though a sab had but then risen to her throat, spoke again quietly,
udied. Atrendy there are in .ot London, housed in a shed the Royal Victoria Docks, de- the division lalled scate models of the
to Estuary, constructed model of the super Thames by the Ship Division of Dri- conle wind-funnel which played assist the work of the Port of wartimo London Authority. Yet another
is
Severn Research. In research on flight and Industrial
which greater than that of round. In Estuary: it will help in the de- proposed Severn was built at the National Phy- this wind-tunnel-the only ono rim of the
of barrage. Teding of its kind available to any at
the sical Laboratory
In 1900, the allied ton, in Middlesex,
designa enter part of the war-scale
In the teaching of selence, their models of German V-2 rockets, can be towed along for performance to be determined. constructed in secretly collected
chita, were tested before a sin hundels are of increasing
have INFLUENCE
gle one was actually launched portance. For example, inedi ertainst Britain. The informa- cal research workers have
veloped new technique where- ton gained by a study of these
by a liquid plastic is injected Important an
BS
48 States voted for him each of valve as well as a Liberal; he models played
Into hollow cavities, such measures part in the defence
those formed by the complex times they were!-chaotic, the four times he ran. His in berved in free enterprise and
far from having the profit system. blood vessels and air spaces in taken against them.
President diminished since his death, has
It is not beyond the bounda The Aerodynamics Division the lungs. The liquid then sets catastrophic, revolutionary, fluence.
of possibility that 30 or 40 has another wind-tannel; in this on hard, rubbery solid giving epochal--he was
whole during the greatest emer probably Increased.
When Mr Truman won his years from now the country will further model aeroplanes can be tested an exact model of the
gency in the history of
victory in 1948, have swung so much under strictly controlled condi- system of vessels.
"You've been through worse venture mankind, and he never let surprising hons, so that the forces which
which was made possible in left that what FD.R. stood for
of as almost things, They've been an outrage mankind - Let on them under different fly-
part by the political influence will be thought
to your former sensibilities, You ing conditions can be precisely scientific model-making re-
cently started in Britain is the history
left behind by F.DR., it was leactionary,
love, beauty as an artist and you manufacture of complete model
only altogether fitting that a London
Also Roosevelt's carcer nice have seen
uglines and One day you wi From the Chemical Research skeletons made in plastic: these
of because
the His very defects reflected newspaper should head its story by disproves an essential con-beastliness.
All that will new are needed
namely, situent of Marxism, Laboratory is submitted n
strains "Roosevelt's Fifth Term." cost the unprecedented
got back again.
mind. They which great shortage and high
the principle of class war. His fade from your forro of the models by
the
material. natural
Mrs Roosevelt has said that chemists are accustomed, as an of
were not your fault. You were of his entire life refutes the Marxist course in the whole
the helpless instrument of evil Important aid to their research, Museums of all kinds make ex- and stresses of the decades to reproduce, on an enormously tensive use of models for de- he lived in.
career there was never any de- thesis, He was a rich man and
powers. ob- aristocrat; but he did more the Drrange monstration purposes. magrilled cente,
But he took history in viation from his original
for the underpossessed than any better make life The making of most models ments of the individual atoms
American who ever lived. for characteristic of the hundreds for scientific purposes calls for his stride; he had vision jeelive-"to
the average man, enough and child." I have heard men sub- of thousands of different
the work of new outlet for
and de- of the utmost sober conserva- stances which they study. Sonic in precision and provides and gallantry
are oomph and zip models of this kind are
skilled craftsmen. Models tremely detailed, and show even Lecoming so widely demanded bonair benevolence enough tim say that they think F.DR.From "Roosevelt in Retros-
that their con-to foresee the supreme saved the country from
revolution in 1932. the distribution of the electrons by scientists
atomic struction is creating a small but crises of our era, overcome -the smallest of all
important new craft.
nation Tarikkes.
apecialisext as some of the anthem, and lead the cient crafts which, by its con- out of the worst dangers it These models serve a double stant provision of new methods as ever faced. purpose. On the one hand they of mass production. the applica- are useful In the early stages tion of science to daily life has
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
Artic-
"Please, darling, forget my anti-clipple actitude in the strike-will you marry me?"
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ensured.
PROPERTIES
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woman,
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He created the pattern of the State, and made it function. To be a re- modern democratic former alone is not enough. A reformer must make reform el- the fective. This certainly
Roosevelt was the greatest
and political campaigner
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
'TOO
BAD.
# THE BANES CAN'T COME AND THE JONES'S WILL
HAVE TO GO ON THROUGH...CAN'T STOP OVER
Kaose-
D
*
*
pret," published by flamish is the newest Hamilton. It book by John Gunther, sets
Deca anyone ever talk like
that?
The refugees
or not, "Thino packs into 412 pages all that
which could catch the could reasonably be gathered pen about the personal life and beauty of circling gulls half a work of Roosevelt. Immense- ly readable.
out with characteristic flair BUT, wreat
DEnemy" is Important. The
century ago today has caught the mental and physical horror
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-(London Express Service),
Summer's Done For
KEMP STARRETT
BU
'FISH!
SILVER
BAIT!
WHAT A GAME!
*SEE MY COLOR
PICTORES HOLE NONE."
"I LOST A
POUND AND NEVER MISSED
• MEAL
*PEACH
OUGHT TO
LOOK VELL W HERE!
SUMAIR IS DONE FOR WIEN THE COUNTRY DWELLERS BEGIN
TO GET CANCELLATIONS PROM THE WEEK-ENDERS.
YOU CAN TELL BY THE AUTTERINGS ABOUT PAINTERS, WALL-PAPER AND
UPHOLSTERY.
'I KAON I SPRAYED ALL
THOSE CLOTHES
IN THE
SPRING!
SUMMER'S DONE FOR ABOUT THE SAME TIMS AS YOUR WOOLERS ARE.
COIR. 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES
COMP, TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
SUMMER IS OVER, WHEN DAUGHTER. GETS HOME WITH A NEW COLLECTION OF MEN... PICTORIAL... AND BEGINS TO REST UP FROM HER REST
AT THE SHORE.
'I YANKED
AND IT LET
GO ALL OF
A
SUDDEN!
WHEN THEY HOLD VACATION POST-MORTEMS, PARKED ON YOUR DESK YOU KNOW SUMMER'S GOOSE IS COOKĒD.
SUMMER IS
POSITIVELY
ON IT'S LAST LEGS VIEN THE DOORS BECOME
ONSTUCK....
9.12.
WHEN THE MISSUS BEGNS TO
ROAM THE HOUSE WITH A-TAPE - MEASURE AND A
FORNITURE-MOVING GLEAM IN HER.
EYE.
ISUPPOSE WELL HAVE TO BE GETTING BACK TTA' CITY
BY MONDAY!