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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932.

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Aviation, Building and Engineering

STRANGE HOUSES OF THE FUTURE.

No Windows Or Bathrooms?

AN AMERICAN'S PLAN.

London.

FASTEST FLIGHT AROUND WORLD,

High Mark Set For Flyers.

A trophy for the fastest flight! around the world has been present-)

AMAZING GERMAN

AIRCRAFT.

Low Landing Speed Achieved.

One of the most Thtoresting light

ed for international competition aeroplanes that has been seen for by Prince *Bibesco, president some time is the new German of the International Aeronautica!| Hoinkel "84" which was specially The house of the future will Federation, the governing body of designed for the recent Interna- tional Touring Contest or Circuit have no windows, no baths, and no sporting aviation, bedclothes. It will have trans- The contest is, open to any acro- of Europe. parent walls through which light plane, seaplane or airship, but all

will filter. In the kitchen it will

Six of these 2-seater low-wing have cupboards with revolving competitors must follow the same monoplanes were entered in the shelves, but On none of those specified route round the world, via Contest and five of them finished, shelves will there be a bar of soap. Karachi, Tokyo, San Francisco and occupying the third, fourth,

Upstairs, there will be pneumatic New York. The start may be made eighth, fifteenth

-and sixteenth beds-but no bedclothes. And

from any there will be no bath.

of these cities or from places out of the 24 competitors This "House of the Future" has London, Paris, Berlin, Rome' or who completed the full contest. been designed by Mr. Buckminster Bucharest. Competitore must land Later, three of these machines Fuller, an American, and it was at the specified cities on the oficial have visited England and one was recently described to the Architec-route and must finish the fight Siedemann, a competitor in the demonstrated by Lieutenant tural Association in London.

an air pressure hose which squirts world flight and even refuelling in ninety per cent, air and ten per

walls and air from a cone on top

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THE LOCOMOTIVE INDUSTRY.

Chinese Orders For Britain.

BOY BREATHES BY MACHINERY.

An Amazing Device For Hospital.

is

"In this new house," Bald the at the aerodrome from which the Rundflug. British architect who introduced it, start was made. Any number of The object of this demonstration "there are no taps or sinks-only landings are allowed

during the was to display the remarkable speed range and controllability at very low speeds which has been cent water. This does away with mid-air is permitted.

obtained on the H.E. 64. by the filt- the need for batha and soap.

The Trophy will first be won by ting of Handley Page wing slots "There are no windows but light the competitor who succeeds in fly- and flaps. Slots

The placing of an order valued at | (Reuter's Spechi Mail Service.) are arranged comca through the transparenting round the world at an average along the entire leading edge of approximately 120,0001, by the Rus

London. the wings, and are coupled to flapa sian Government, with Messrs. of the house. The temperature of speed throughout of at least 62.14 which run the full length of the Beyer, Pencook

The bravest boy, in Britain and the air is controlled so there is no m.p.h. Subsequent attempts for the trailing edges. These are automa- Limited, of the Gorton Foundry, a steel box at the Wingfield Morris Company, James M. Turner, who is lying in need of bedclothes.

Trophy must exceed the average tic in action and can be fixed to "Doers open by waving the hand speed of the previous record maker any setting from the pilot's seat. Manchester, coupled with the prostile paralysis and yet keeping Orthopaedic Hospital, with infan- in front of photo-electric cells. by at least half-a-kilometro per The resultant low landing speed of pect of further work in the next cheerful,

"A machine converts all sewage hour (31 m.p.h.).

98.5 m.p.h., compared to the top few months from China, Russia and He cannot move. He even has to. into methane gas for light and The cup will be won outright by speed of 152.5 m.p.h., gives the power. You can put a house of the first competitor to encircle the HE. 64 a speed range of one to the home railways, considerably breathe by machinery. this type anywhere, regardless of world in fight at an average speed four, a figure never before achiev brightens the outlook in Lancashire is called the "Drinker Respirator." electric supply of 500 kms. per hour (310.7 m.p.h.). ed on a practical type of aircraft, locomotive-building circles, which A vacuum is created inside it,

The present record for a round- The machine is built entirely of

drains, gas, or There are vacuum units for cook-

CARS COAST “UP”

an

the

The apparatus in which he lies

the chest to rise.

ing and machines for washing the-world flight is held by the wood, the fuselage being of oval have suffered acutely in the last which causes dishes and laundry.

All the American airmen, Post and Gaity, eross-section with an exceptionally two or three years, from the cur-Then a pump fills the case with

air, and the chest relaxes. machinery ia fitted into

with an elapsed time of 8% days. well-faired cabin which can be on-tailment of requirements, both by Turner smiles weakly at those aluminium box at the centre of They, however, followed a more closed by

a transparent sliding home and overseas railway underwho visit him, "I shall soon be house.

northerly, and

Rubber buffers prevent en- therefore shorter, roof. course than the route laid down for gine vibration from reaching the takings. The order is for 26 tank better," he says.

fuselage. the Bibesco Trophy.

engines required for use in Russian' The pilot's cockpit in front has steel and other large industrial tional Government has already an- an adjustable seat with arm-rests works, and will provide steady work nounced its intention of spending several million pounds on, railway ENGINEERS OBSERVE and a well-equipped instrument

board. An additional petrol tank for some time at the Gorton Four-improvements immediately cond!- CANADA'S PROGRESS is altuated in the coming behind dry. Locomotive builders in the tions warrant this procedure, and the pilot, the main tanka being area are also optimistic of securing it is expected that the bulk of the Canals And Hydro- behind the fireproof engine bulk-useful work from China, If, as is work will be placed with British

head. The second cockpit also has Electric Systems.

ing hope that the 1988 programmes

IN V GEORGIA. Science Says It's An Illusion.

(Reuter's Special Mail Service).

Warm Springs, Georgia.

(Continued in Next Column.)

an adjustable seat and is fitted anticipated, a settlement is roached arms. In addition, there is a grow- with detachable dual control. A in the next few weeks, in the Man- of home railway companies will In- In view of the closer commercial feature of the cabin is the remark-churian problem.. The Chinese Na- clude larger provision for new roll- Cars coast uphill here.

relations between the countries jably good vilaw in practically all

|ing-stock than those of the last few Persons who understand such comprising the British Empire directions.

years-Engineering. funny things point out that it's all which resulted from the recent Im- an optical illusion, but negroes say perial Economic Conference at the hill is haunted."

Ottawa, the choice of Canada as This weird "hill" is a few miles the principal locale for the meeting from this resort. It is the spur of the Institution of, Mechanical of an unimpressive mountain and Engineers would seem to have The "magic" section of the road members forming the visiting party been felicitously made though thê is about 100 yards long and begins primarily made the trip with the can park his car at the foot of the object of learning something of the technical conditions obtaining in

that's what caused the illusion.

at the base of the hill. A motorist

hill, stop his engine and the the Dominion.

machine will coast to the summit] Canada has already many notable of the incline. He must start his motor to pull back down the bill credit. Some of these one their engineering achievements to her

The hill was "discovered" two

years ago by a salesman who had origin to her geography, e.g., the a puncture near the base. When ship canals, the hydro-electric gen- erating schemes, the transcontinen-

his car coasted toward the summittal railway systems, and the grain

he dashed to town, and told his tale: The Police laughed at him. harvesting and transport services. The next day he took authorities Such are well-known and are, in some sense, peculiar to the country,

to the scene and since then the but in some other directions the en- hill has attracted thousands of gineering industry is still some- Įvisitors.

(what undeveloped.

It is part of an unpaved, hard, red clay road. Authorities on such matters point out that an optical Illusion is the only explanation of the "magic," but the explanation of the illusion is never apparent.

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In many places are to be found well-organised modern works and factories, from an inspection of which there is something to be learned, but gaps occur here and there which our country with its maturer experience should be able to All, Assuming a proper use of the optunities provided by the meeting, there is no doubt but that it should be, not inconsiderably, mutually beneficial-Engineering,

EARLY MOTION PICTURES.

Strange Machines In Exhibition.

(Reuter's Special Mall Service).

London.

Some of those queer contraptions. which were the forerunners of the modern talking picture are on view at the exhibition of cinematography in the Royal Photographic Society's gallery in Russell-square.

For instance, there is the Anamorphoscope," which showed distorted Agures moving in a cyling drical mirror. And it did that in 1635.

There is also the Bio-Phanto BGope, one of the first attempts to portray movement on the lantern' screen by photographic means. That was in 1888,0pdate

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