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The Britain Can Make It exhibition held at London's Britain's "domestic" gadgets. Victoria and Albert Museum There were hundreds more, and proved two things:

hundreds of other inventions, That British inventors and much more important than manufacturers are just as alert garden weeders, that are seldom band original-perhaps in some heard about.

cases more so as the inventors and manufactures of any other nation, d

That Americu dock not pro duce everything new, though it can be saddled with the ham is well-known that Americans ed if the Big Five powers agree burger, the bobby-soxer to waive their right of veto in case the juke-box, of violation of atomic-control

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By RONALD MCKIE

"

and

of

war the genius nation Eurcpe, but don't be a sucker all along the line."

by the sagacity and statesmanship generations, the only improve- underlying this conception. Imments in living have come from mense possibilities were opened the USA., or that Germany up by the plan. It is not merely

tion would make the whole world feel able to sleep safely, without dread of being blown to glory by an atomic bomb. An agreement to abolish the veto, coupled with ja vesting of atomic powers in the Security Council, would be the first step in transforming the Unit ed Nations from a body at pre- sent scarcely more effective than the defunct League of Nations into an effective world govern-[..

ment.

Britain, like

most

ather!

nations, learned. something from the war, and she has now switched her war-won knowledge to the everyday uses of the world of today and tomorrow.

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-British-gadgets-for the home of 1948, particularly the fat, are revolutionary.

Our cables from London de- Today the world is almost cer-scribing the "Britain Can Make tainly assured of at least twenty It Exhibition left no doubt years of peace. That assuranc that British inventors and arises from the fact that Britain | technicians are still on their and the United States, between toes, whom any serious dispute is un- thinkable, possess flects and air forces which are twenty to thirty times as powerful as those of the rest of world combined. In addi- tion, with Canada, they have a Таворову

on the atomic bomb. There is no chance of Britain and the United States, singly or to- Neither of them, for more than a gether, menacing world peace.

expan-

"paychologist inspired" toys, Baby, after playing with which both educate and amuse, will sleep in a plastic cat while his high chair is put to other

At the British Trade Com missioner's office in Sydney I learned how British industry. is being streamlined by inven tlons,

veloped. records down to one-

The Topograph, recently de-

five-thousandth of an inch surface regularities in mecha- nical engineering.

Speculum coating is a new process for plating cutlery Speculum is so tough it 16 scratch and acid proof-that 11 average coating of one thousandth of an inch on any kind of metal is adequate. A lostre equal to silver, ia main- tained by washing in soap and water.

Gossamer cloth weighing only 14 oz. to the square yard (wool) also at 1oz. a aquare yard) is being woven from "aligite." filament yarn produced from seaweed.

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The new car headlamp eli-] minates dazzle, and makes rair

than steel, is being used in the now invisible to the driver A plastic, 17 times stronger aircraft industry.

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A new texile machine knits 1,000,000 yards of ladderproof rayon fabric an hour. aliows only 80 per cent, of the A window glass called Calorex sun's heat to pass through.

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE. EXPERIMENTAL LAB;

A Dangerous Flat And

Fatal

By GLEN WILLIAMS,

The Goodwin Sands, mariners graveyard that has engulfed sal- lors and ships for a thousand years, is being recharted 59 thẳng Admiralty in an effort to reduce the toll of men and wealth an-

its. nually sucked into shifting. treacherous mass,

Even the hardy lifeboat

Deal

fear the sanda

Isen.

When they set out in storms to Answer a desperate distress roc ket they feel the horror of a voy

into the unknown, for the sands are never the same

from

jane tide' to another.

Ancient galleons laden with gold, doubloons.

are aquashed the quicksand against the steel bones of a Germansubmarine trasped there after a World War I raid on the English coast.ATT995

Smooth Anchorage in An example of The relentless destruction

by

sand, tide "andie wind. is there now--the beakearw halves of the 7,000 ton Unitedn't! States steamer Helena Magdeskt

She drove hard around in September storm. Shortly after ward, her can

captalk, William: Our

"Confound this secret work! In a moment of forgetful- ness told my wife to keep her mouth shuif"

ran, was found dead in his, John Bell, South Australian In 1866 James Harrison, of Tou

room. An Inquest witness

cf grain; in 1885 Hugh Victor first ice factory, and later did farmers, made the stripper, the Geelong, once a Sydney Morn- for not having taken a pilet into first machine to harvest a crop ing Herald reporter, made the the sheltered, deep water downl

a'

In the five by ten mile down MacKay invested the "First much of the early experimental between the Kent coast and the successful machine to

there strip, work on deep freezing of meat, sands thresh, winnow, and bag grain

one of the smoothest deep water anchorages :- -from-a-standing-crop-in-one And the totalisator was in in-the-world-a-apet which once

vented by Sir George Julius. wae a rendezvous for the British...

operation."

a New Zealand engineer long ficet. resident in Sydney.

Australians also invented the stump-jump plough and the shearing machine,

If you study the records of! Yes, Britaid ean make it

In 1874, Louis Brennan, of inventions you will realise that today, just as she did in the Melbourne, invented the tor- the British are not such mugs world the steam engine and the beds, which was perfected and the need to have had a hand

by the British Govern- seem railway train, which opened the ment in 1887 for $110,000, and in moet new things: By unscrewing a few nuts industrial era, and British in- in 1922, a helicopter, invented and other fittings mother, inventors were responsible a few minutes, can turn the

for by him, rose to 2000 feet, thousands of other lesser known, hovered in a 20-mile wind for chair into an ironing board or but equally important, die 30 minutes, and travelled at 80

coveries.."

m.p.h.

uces,

for

woollens,

ม

80 19 to

"English fitting"), aniline dye, į countless others.

generation, has been an sionist nation. Therefore,

a step-indder. 17 un. Electric irons, which ou- less there is a revolutionary change tomatically cut off if they over-

Like the bicycle, pneumatic' in the existing balance of power, heat, will be fitted with swit-tyre, match, postage stamp, peace is guaranteed by the coches and dials to regulate the electric light bulb, thermionic operation of these two great coun- correct heat

value, upon which modern radio tries. But world opinion, not least rayons, and silks, plus a small has developed, water closet in the United States and Britain, water tank," from which (still called in France 21 would like to find a more universicam jet is sprayed ahead of sal and permanent basis for peace the moving iron.

can cooperation provides. That is of a wet cloth why people of good will through- out the world have given their support to and placed their hopes in the organization of the United Nations. But all realists know that, at the moment, it is little more than a debating Assembly

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America has persuaded the

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So the next time Bob Hope inverts pencillin, or Bing Cros- by gives radar to the world....

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Cigarettes And Heart Trouble

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lies

Only Legend

line.

The origin of the shoal of quick- and is lost so far back in timó that there is only a legend of its * beginning.

raition says it was once the

Lorten, owned by the from which came King Harald of Earl of Godwine, the family the Saxons.

After William the Congueror 1060, the Godwines were stripped defeated Harald at Hastings In

of their vast baronial holdings in,

William's followers

divided the lands, but the tradle tion says the faland was swent away in 1097 and becaine a sandy.a shael,

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The wrecks of Norse galley und great sailing ships are chroni eled in the plays of Shakespeare.

In Shakespeare enr

In the Merchant of Venice, hel details the loss of Antonio's shiper & which bore the cargo to repay 2 Shylock.

world that Edison invented the Does the fact that a man is a worse for the cart than smoking electric light bulb, yet. Dr. man make him more liable to several cigarettes. The kitchen stove will be Swan, of Newcastle, made and heart disease than his wife?

Usual Ratio fitted with

Sir Maurice Cassidy, the King's i a glass front, a sold 60,000,000 electric bulbs

As to the male and female control panel for heat regula before Edison ever entered the physician, says he cannot answer question,

Sir Maurice's report, lading wrecked" on the

"Antonio hath a ship of ch tion, an automatic switch off

but that there are statistics

published in the "Lancet," said sens, the Goodwins, I think they “ Australia, in her short his-support an affirmative answer. that eut of 1,000 heart patients, call the place; a very dangerous" speed controllable, blades, sauce- tery has also produced a large ever, Sir Maurice has some corn-giving a female to male ratio, of of many a tall ship lie buried

For both men and wonen, how-770 were males and 221 females, fint, and fatal, where the pans of treated aluminium- where nations can advertise and the same metal was used in

fort about heart ailments: smok-1 to 3.5, "which seems to be A year ago, a quick survey, very often exaggerate their dif- Spitfire exhausts--which will ferences. It is bound to remain withstand 10,000 degrees Cen- so unless the nations of the world tigrade, and a gadget like, a can agree to some abdication of telephone dial which not only toasts brend any colour you their sovereign rights and to the want it, but automatically flips creation of pooled security under the toast into a container when is obvious that, however much the the aegis of a world authority. It it is ready

Carpets will be swept with peoples of the world may aspire a cleaner which generates its to the creation of an effective own power when pushed, and world government, many of their you will sew with a machine,

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Lawrence Hargrave, assistant at Sydney Observa- tory, made, the first plane-a

By NORMAN BADDERLY:

about the usual ratio found in showed the sands shifting so!! literature, though in a recent re- rapidly that the Admiralty de... port from the Mayo Clinic (incided to rechart them every year, 1 5ib. compressed air model which ing does not seeni to cause more the female-to-male ratio was 1 to to be a cause of heart, troubles

America) on 3,440 heart patients,

Sir Maurice said. It had beenta flew 343 feet at 10 mph. He heart trouble than fright, or a 4.3." did much of the original experi-difficult problem in arithmetic, or Discussing the more frequent shown that the smoking of ciga- mental work on neronautics, a series of deep breaths.

becurrence of heart troubles rettes usually lowered the skin and invented the rotary auto The specialist told the Royal among men, Sir Maurice said: temperature, diminished then engine.

College of Physicians that driv "In the past, no doubt, women; blood-flow, and

increased them. In 1842-43, John Ridley anding on automobile, in traffic Isled, a more sheltered life.. But blood pressurė,

certainly today one would Stop Smoking Advice contend. that men work four The physician said he alwaysh times as hard as women; in fact, advised patients whose hearts oc- some night argue that the re-casionally missed a beat, to stop s verse is true,

leaders are adamant in their about the size of a typewriter BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

opposition to such a plan. And and weighing 20lbs., fitted with many of these peoples have no a tiny gadget which shoots a means of changing their rulers. Jet of light on the needle.

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It is therefore far better to pro- ceed step by step.

America, through the fact that she alone today possesses any atomic bombs, is in a position to give real leadership to the world.

She raight use the immense power

she has to bully and coerce other

nations to do her will. It is to her

eternal glory that she has no in-

Furniture will be in mass- produced pieces, which can be fitted into each other in dozena of ways..

By Shepard Barclay The Authority on Authorities" FINESSE VS.

THE DROP

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smoking, "and usually this brings

"I have not been able to salle no improvement of their symped Jy myself thal the number of tons. He added: "But very ockie, over two. With 16 other cards out cases among women have in- cactonally the results are draha West had about 5 and East 11. creased of recent years, com-tle, and I have seen a relapse if So, in any sult other than clubs, pared with that of males. 1f smoking is resumed," Odds on the relative merits of West probably had The 1948 bed, which has no a finesse, as against playing your missing cards and East 11-13.

5-16 at the smoking plays an important part. Sir Maurice said of his heart! bed-clothes, will look like the high cards to drop a

in causing heart disease, which If disease patients," 17.6 per centr missing body of a racing car. You will honour, are altered when you diamonds missing, probabilities pect a more equal sex facidente moderately, and 39.8 per cents With 4 Spades, 5 hearts and 7 doubt, we should certainly ex-were non-smokers, 42.6 smoked! get into it, pull up a plastic know one defender holds a cer would indicate West to have 125 during the next ten years or so were heavy smokers--Associated eiderdown, and switch on stain, number of cards in one or spades, 1.56 hearts, 2.19 diamonds Tobacco long had been, thought! Press................. Wurm or a cool current of air more other sults. That factor in and East 2.75 spades, 3.44 hearts

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