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THE CHINA MAI, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1947. (

ENGINEERING PAGE

Hong Kong As A Shop. Window For Empire By A Specialist

That Hong Kong should be done; would like to know what in the future be one of the fac minde a shop window for the plans are afoot and why it is tara in solving the vexed pro- British Exporter is n view not possible to push on faster blein of housing and living which has been

expressed with providing more, and betapace in this Colony. Here we several times since the liberater quality vehicles. The much find ourselves gazing into a tion of this Colony and, in- maligned ferries whier con- part of the window which ap- herent in this statenient is nstitute such a vital Ink in the pears desperately badly dressed. challenge which we feel, as a fabric of this Colony carry in How can we make this a really vehicle of public expression, it themselves a story of persistent fine shop window when people ia Incumbent upon us to meet, and patient engineering skill have nowhere to live and are of crowded check by low) in hotel To we who are living in, and in overcoming difficulties in many cases creating, the which it will be intereating to rooms. What are the angileer- shop window it in dificult, if hear if only wo can get the ing views on this, blank space in the window? It promises to not impossible to see in proper engineers to talk. perspective how well the chal-

Clanging Activity be interesting if we can entice lengo is being met and we hope

Those vast centres of clang-the engineer to let us have his in the articles and elitorinis ing activity, the Kowloon and views on this problem. which will appear on this page Talkoo Dockyards are perhaps to examine what has been done, two of, the most spectacular' ex- Products Problem how well It measures up to our hibits in the window and con- ideas of a proper shop window,tain within themselves exam-gineers, here in Hong Kong. what other things might be ples, both human and material, and their ability to contribute done, and what other goods of the resourcefulness and ne-to the development of the might, with advantage, be ex-cumulated' skill which has done place, are governed, in no small hibited.

no much to maintain the re- measure, by the products avail- putation and demand for Bri- able to them from the factories tish engineering products the of the Empira and America. world over.

Of these products and even of some not of immediate value in the Colony itself such as Electron microscope, the Engine, the Gas Turbine Atomic Energy, we hope shall learn something from the englacers attached to the mer- houses who, in the chant ultimate analysis, are the shop- keepers behind the window.

It is clear that some of the most important and exportable commodities, of our Empire are products of the engineer And The railway which disgorges this page is therefore to belts crowds onto the already devoted in particular to un- overburdened ferries, i8 an- Kincering muttere. The en- other part of the window which gineer in a shy animal and gen- le little known to most of us erally docs not enjoy being in who live here. n shop window but his contribu- tion to the very structure of the window Itself in all around

us.

Main Prop

What engineering products has it in use what might be added; who can tell but what this road of British steel might

All the activities of the en-

Developments In Electricity

By Prof. A. M. Low

the Jet and WE

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The water we use in ever in- creasing quantity is collected for us by Ingenious and care- fully planned catchment schemes; impounded in dama and piped, and pumped to our homes, or removed from them after use, by devices of en- gineers. This activity alone is in itself a main prop of the window and therefore worthy

powder which of our closer study. The clee- It is fascinating to think that the lycopodium tric power and light which has everything is held together by comes from a moss found been harnessed for our use is electric forces, and that our Russia. These particles are 30 more abundant here and now in bodies are mostly space which small that their "tension value" this window than in Britain It- we cannot see.

is very high, and you can plunge

Into the bowl self; the very factory which And there this queer thing, your hand originally built and supplied that on the surface of liquids water, through the skin of thin *it becoming most of the generating and there. is an added attraction particles, without distributing machinery. The which produces a kind of hard wet in any way. engineers and organisation be- skin or a form of "surface ten- It is very difficult to observe hind our electric supply have alon." Colloidal chemistry has any occurrences accurately. You done a remarkable job and it shown us how particles of gold will find that if three people in will be worthwhile in a later can be made so small as to stay front of, say, twelve, are watch- article, examining the contribu- suspended in water, but surface ed in a simple action such tion of themselves and their attraction-is quite another story, one man dropping a bunch of plants to the shop window. and if you take a perfectly dry keys, one kicking it, and one re- The trams and buses we ride needle and drop it very close to turning it to the firai man, and in are purely engineering pro- the surface of some water, keep. the three then sitting down in

every angle: ducts and whilst their numbers ing it absolutely level, it will different order, and reliability have increased commonly float, Reminiscent, In person in the audience will give to a degree which compares fact, of some forms of these a different-account- of tho, per. favourably with progresa in new military bridges.

formance. Or vory nearly.

accidents is why road other areas recovered from the A still more atriking example This

apparent lying- Japanese, many of us still feel is shown by covering the

sur- cause so much impatient that more is not face of a bowl of water with Anyway, it is one kindly reason.

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The camera now being used to judge racing is the only real method unicsa we have some electronic recorder, which I hope will be used one day for voting. These high-speed camer- as are fascinating - things, and observe that they have now introduced a revolving win- ning post, so that it will not in terfere too much with the'-lines of sight but appear stationary as the camera, clicks.

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the Very embarrassing for onlookers who might be in the unhappy position of the man who entered a ballroom which had

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It was once argued in Court that a certain photograph had boen taken. wrongly because the, Rash made by the photographer startled a man holding a screen; No one noticed it at the time, but Counsel should have point- clout that the Bash would be over long before the screen could have been dropped. The exposure which resulted

Wan not only that of a film.. A tricky point for the Judge, was It not?

Accidents

Thore scom to have been a sod number of railway- 'ac eldents of date, and it is rathor n reflection. on civilisation that selontlile methods' should take so long to apply: Buildings burn down when almost fire proof methods are available. Trains could travel fast through fog. it radar équipped. Animals do not run into each other in the dark because they havo Bonnes which indicats the pres sence of others. We, by living. In cities, cating tinned food, wearing alothes and shaving Kiss (Continued on Part 9), 1

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