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Unrewarded. Genius,
Richard Trevithick, the centenary [of whose", death occurred recently, was one of those geniuses" who have been far more honoured since their death than they were in life.
If you stand by the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westininisteri [Abbey you may see a window to Trevithick's memory, in which are shown a tramway locomotive, Va Cornish pumping engine, a steam dredger, and a railway locomotive. In. Dartford Church, is a bronze plaque to his memory.
❤
Untimely Revolution.
FRIDAY MAY 19, 1933.
£1,000,000,000 SAVED
IN 25 YEARS
LABORATORY “TOYS” MADE FORTUNES
ACCIDENT AIDS PROGRESS
(By Horace Thorogood.)
We are seeing a great many toys formed much more quickly and in Just now. Shop windows glow better yield, and investigation re- with their gay colours, Pretty,vealed that the presence of a very perishable things, so soon to be small amount of, mercury immensely- broken and thrown away!
hastened the reaction.
Yet some toys there are for which The discovery that anti-febrin It was at Dartford that the on's vogue and then oblivion. origin in a
a better fate is reserved than a bea-was good for headaches had its queer way. The Father of the Locomotive Engine Learned men play with them in the existence of anti-febria was well died, in debt to his innkeeper, and privacy of laboratories; but they known, but it had never been con- unhonoured save by a number of are toys just the same until they nected with beadaches until one day mechanics who clubbed together to suddenly give up a secret of Nature a doctor sent his laboratory boy out. [bury him.
Yet Trevithick very nearly died to find out in other ways.
that the wise men have been trying to get the chemical which he used Then for this complaint, and the boy
a rich man. He supplied a number they cease to be toys, and become brought back the anti-febrim bottle of engines for the silver mines in important factors in Peru, and was promised
great indus-by mistake. S hand-tries, providing thousands of men The error was discovered too late: some share of the increased output with employment.. of the precious metal,
But the Inevitable South Amrel- can revolution took place, and the insurgents threw his engines down the shafts.
Trevithick was Jet penniless and was glad to escape with his life.
Novelists' Fortunes.
[the patient had taken the wrong
Sir Frank Smith, secretary of the medicine. But his rapid recovery Department of Industrial Research, was a surprise to the doctor, and the spoke recently of the photo-electric clue was followed, with beneficent cell.
Twenty years ago, he said, it results, to aching heads ever since. To-day it plays a vital part in talk- was “a mere toy of the laboratory." Cheese Aids Progress! Ing pictures, in burglar alarms, în
Much more
ridiculous was the
of cheese into the vat.
What the man sild when he came
the lighting systems of large stores, manner in which an important fact in cigarette factories, where it about electroplating came to light. arranges cigarettes in rows with. The workmen in a certain works the imprinted name uppermost, in were sitting one day over their Few English novelists, even the the packing of cigars, which it bread and cheese lunch, and a most popular, have left large for selects by the colour of the outside practical joker took advantage of tunes, and in this respect Mr. John leaf, in controlling the magnitude the momentary absence of one of purposes. The Virginia law Galsworthy's £88,000 takes a high of electric currents, and in televi- his mates to throw the latter's lump provided that once a month one place. In literary circles, how sion. quart of distilled spirits or three ever, many people expected his will Hong Kong, Friday, May 19, 1938. gallons of beer or one gallon of]
A toy! The chemists used it for wine may be brought to any per only because of his great success mysterious intelligence.
to be proved at a higher figure, not little laboratory jobs, smiling at its back is not recorded, but on resum
|ing work" it was found that the son not a student at a university, as a novelist and playwright, but college or any other school, nor also because he was not entirely cell could be multiplied considerably, how given a very much better cost- The example of the photo-electric electro-plating process had some- minor, nor a female (not the dependent head of a family) for his own living.
on his writings for a Tungsten was "a laboratory toying than had hitherto been obtain- for a hundred years before it was ed. Investigation followed, and the The first formal vote for rati-use
"In short, the pattern of with the outstanding exception extensively used in industry,
heneficial effect of the introduction - the fication of the Twenty-first prohibition legislation in
South was not uniform, but cutter of a million sterling, no Entory
of Sir Hall Calne, who left a quar young men in a Continental labors of an organic chemical wa B Amendment, repealing the Eigh-according to local variations in
isolated
¦tablished, with revolutionary results metallic tungsten glish novelist has left more than about 1780. It was a result of all due to a joke with a chunk of teenth, was cast in Michigan customs, and standards.
Each $100,000.
pure research, and no importance where a decisive repealist ma State dealt with the problem of Indeed, only one or two have ex- was attached to it.
Yet another accident. Chemlata intoxicating liquor. as it saw fit ceeded the £80,000 of Charles Dick How intercaling! - jority was recorded. Within the East would, retain the same priens, who was entirely dependent
|were trying a method of protecting I next twelve months the question yilere under Twenty-first on his own effértap
the
But a century later Langmuir, aluminium against corrosion, studying combinations of gases with succeeded; but incidentally it was of repeal will be referred to the Amendment.
Incandescent tungsten, opened the found that the protective coating electorate of thirteen additional
way to the invention of the gas- obtained could be coloured by the States. In eleven others mea-
filed tungsten lamp, which has same method. Hence the presence Saved the world, scientists calculate, on the market to-day of all sorts of £1,000,000,000 in 25 years.
prettily-coloured trinkets and other Coloured Aluminium was another "labora- articles in aluminium
aluminium is now used for shop- tory toy," and that within easy fronts and it is in contemplation to
"Erica."
sures providing for a popular Almost a millennium ago Eric
Your Daily Smile
EVOLUTION. "He's on the stock market.” "On the curb?"
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Two
There it was.
mentory of many of us. I myself]
cheese.
recall being shown by a chemistry cover whole house-fronts with it. master a small piece of it, about the
Grown-up Toys,
size of a shilling, as a curiosity. It would, of course, be foolish to Thirty years before that it was ex-rely on lucky accidents like these to hibited as a scientific oddity in Improve and speed up Industry, Paris.
To-day it is difficult to Deliberate investigation into chemi- Imagine the world without cal problems such as is carried on aluminium.
by Bir Frank Smith's DepartmentTM
of Industrial Research, at the Uni-
veralties, and in the laboratories of
yote have been adopted and in the Red, sailing westward from thirteen similar legislation is Iceland in search of a land which "He was on the curb, but now pending. In the movement to had been sighted a little time he's in the gutter."
before by another Norwegian, ward a popular resolution of this reached the east coast of Green
THE FUGITIVE. long-standing question it is signi-land, sailed past its southernmost "Where are you hurrying to?" ficant that several Southern point and then northward along "I am running to try to stop a States have already taken action, the west coast, where he built quarrel between a married couple." Arkansas will hold an election on tress at the northern threshold, they?"
this home and his primitive. for "That's good of you. Who are
July 18, Tennessee on July 20 of the New World. He gave "I am one of hem." and Alabma about the middle of Greenland with all its frigid the same month. Moving to set wastes a good name not only be cause its fjords and pastures and the convention machinery going teeming rivers gave him welcome able stork Nature is marvelous! the same position as aluminium was
"My dear, this book is a remark- laboratory product which is in much the great industries themselves is the main source, and must remain does not necessarily mean an af-in his exile but because people Stupendous! When I read a book in its "curiosity" days, Nobody 30, of discovery, firmative decision. But at least would like the better to come like this, it makes me think how knows how to prepare it cheaply.
there." The pioneer colonies insignificant is man." the Legislatures of these States
which were then established| are cognizant of a desire on the perished in their isolation and through 200 pages of a book to find "A woman doesn't have to ioade public's part to express an opinnot till some centuries later that out." lon on the question. Moreover, (1721) was a rediscovery it is fair to ssume that action settlement made under another
(and
OHI OH! OH!
taken in several instances to le- Norwegian. But two hundred PERFECTLY CERTAIN
galize the manufacture and sale years after the rediscovery, - by
"How do you know I'll let
you
Chemists' Hope.. But meanwhile, beryllium is
靄
But it holds on the metallurgists
pure condition the confident hope of who are trying to produce it in a
discovering new strong alloys even lighter than aluminium,
(Continued on Page 21.)'.
Personal Parg.
The entire, huge synthetic resin
Mr. and Mra, D. B. Evans were industry" fs founded upon coal tar among the passengers returning to by-products of the laboratory which, the Colony on the ss. Carthage |for many year, chemists, unable to to-day.
to put them to any use, threw away
is
as rubbish, until Bakeland came COL F. P. Nosworthy, D.8.09: along and investigated their forma- M.C sccompanied by Mr. tion.The hydrogen-ion apparatus, Nosworthy, returned to the Colony now the base of the control of this morning on the s. Carthage, acidity in Jam-making, dye-works, from Shanghaf..
canning and many other industries,
of beer is an indication of popu- reason of untoward circumstan marry my daughter?!! lar dissatisfaction with a narrow ces, nothing was left to Norway "My mother's been talking Interpretation of the Eighteenth of all that vast area, except your wife, sir! Amendment. Measures of this comparatively short coastline at Bort have been adopted in North the east which has borne the QUESTIONABLE VINTAGE. Carolina and Louisiana, and bills name of Eric the Red (Eirik "This is real pre-war stuff!” for the same purpose have been Raude's Land) And now as a "You don't mean to say there favorably reported in Alabama, résult of the decision of the Pergoing to be another war?" Taxas and South Carolina. It is manent Court of International one of the widely accepted dog- Justice, which the claim was mas of the prohibition movement submitted for amicable settle that the South had voted itself ment, even that remaining nar dry even before the enactment of row strip becomes of a piece with the Eighteenth Amendment. The the rest of Greenland under the The number of radio broadcast- doors of knowledge and exposing Gatchalian. basis for this assumption is the sovereignty of Denmark. There in stations in Norway has been rich new kingdoms for the conquest fact that a number of States were tears in the eyes of Norway increased to 18, south of the Mason and Dixon when the award was announced
Facts You Did Not Know.
was... purely. laboratory thing originally,
Dr. H. Gatchalian, of the Chinese
General Hospital, Manila, arrived in
A whole book might be written on the Colony, this morning, by the ... the part, often ludicrous, which ac President Taft, on a vacation trip. eldent has played in opening new
He is accompanied by Mrs"
of industry, Pag
Sir Peter Grain, who recently Very often it has been while retired from the position of Chief
arrived in the Colony this mor on the Carthage. He is en route to England.
ave, been made.
line had set up State-wide laws but in her fuist acceptance an Research by Japanese scientist searching for something else that Justice in H.B.M. Court, Shang for the control of alcoholic liquor other step has been taken in the has indicated that earthquakes valuable discover But in most cases these laws road toward the ideal which is in drive certain species of fish to what was the case were far more flexible than the the heart of the nations. King feeding grounds and can them He stumbled on the soci hard-and-fast system of prohl Haakon a hope for "good colla to take balted hooks more freely,
bition later satablished by the boration" in Scandinavia Eighteenth Amendment., Missis-larged to embrace the earth in sippi, Tennessee and West Vir-ita disputes, It wo ginia, traditionally listed as dry lous act on Denmar States, permitted the manufac cherish the memory ture of wins for personal use, Greenland and to kee North Carolina legalized the "Im-on the portation of one rtbf
en
or five gallons of
teen do
both
To help direct his course in par- Fachute jumps an aviator/his, Ind
tato
ated a propeller that is^
his-body and operated by" stire
that pull cords over
|ing ayx
make qui
The
Mr. Charles M. Lewis, secretary. of the Ilpflo branch of the Y.MUA. accompanied by Mr. Lewis and their infant daughter, art the Colony, this morning,-
President Taft, on their way Shanghaf”"
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