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World's Smallest Laboratory Vikon Tiles Disintegration Of

Of For All Atoms Studied Purposes

*"Mesons"

And among other new types.

"Vikon" aluminiumn-based sites, for use in bathroom, kitchen, basement. etc. are now available in Houg Kang. Permanent, attractive and cennomi- cal, they are easily invalled without the need for special tons or other equipment.

The tiles can be applied

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The photographic plate is the most extreme and drastic Today the smallest laboratory in example of disintegration which By P. T. Holligan

the world, Its height from has yet been observed. floor to roof-the thickness ef (Glacier Metals) "The Engineering and Marine the sensitive layer-may be no Exhibition opened at Olympia more than one fifth of a milline of disintegration, five examples painted or unpainted, a

Thursday. Андия! 28th, tre, and floor space is that of have been round which are wails and ceilings, no matter what 1947.” I will try and unfold the the area of the plate.

attributed to the Impact of the material-in fact, all that is tr printable part of the tale that

But within this miniature mesons," a relatively "new" quired in a fairly smooth and evo behind this tirs

simple state-

laboratory, many of the most type of article, which is believed surface, ment.

interesing

Bevises being bendable and Important On the previous Monday we

of to play an essential part in hoki-. for, the frat atomic diaintegrations are nowing the nucleus of the atom to. ure or angle, they can be cut so say "the Stand" time an austerely mathematining produced and recorded. gether. In theory, it should be any ire or shape with an ordinary pair of scissors, Corner heads, chair Toft, by 10ft, with There would be no greater con-ssible to release this in the rails, border strips and cove hasey,

trast to, shall we say, the Han laboratory when hantly

equipment of arranged super struc-

are among the accessuies supplie.! Around for Atomic Energy Plant or sufficiently high electrical energy tures rising above it,

The tiles are applied with "Vikne Bedlam. Carpenters, to the giant cyclotrons which is available.

cement, a puny-like off cement which use to pro- pariters, verteteinas, milwrights clear physicists

Meantime, cosmic radiation, comes ready for use; b will mot deg all in a fury of apparently duce fast-moving bullets with which beats down regularly on in a metal pail and can be stored medningless netivity It seemed which to attack the atom.

the earth from the outer space, for future use

Colors available for both dilex and The den that the Photographic provides the most violent type] Impossible that order enald

are white, black, man Parge from such chaos in three plate can be used as a laboratory of bombardment to which the Accessories

darin in itself, and not merely as days.

red. parchmen, hatmered nucleus of any

can heilver, har atom

hammered, green and ham recording Instrument, is one not exposed.

merel Dulmanet. The remen eines at first easy to grasp. Never

And the ease with which the jin joh pails--enough- 20 theless, the atomic disintegra now photographie emulston abiit 120 mg, fent of siting. tions photographed are not being technique Is enabling Jarge

Loral agens are the Union Invest. produced outside the plate and numbers of much disintegrationsment Co., Ltd., in the Stock Exchange The place looked like an iran- merely recursed on it; they are to be conveniently studied-isuilding monger's slop, We laid them all, being produced from among the effect giving a rapid preview of ant on the shelves and platforma alors contained in the sensitive some of the more startling kintis of the stand. We didn't like it. layer of the plate itself.

of disintegration which will beiden of # Cambridge company We work hadf of them away, and

obtained when laboratory equip

the surveying the result, regretted

acceleration of The basic Iden is simple. If the ment, for our Inck of artikale fake And

within atom disintegrates

the bombarding particles to atla knowledge of witlow dressing,

But the exhibits were a mere plate, it will produce as trag.higher energies, is available. detail. What about lights? Were ments from s splitting a rum- ber of electrically chargest there enough? No. Could we get more fitted in time? No. What particles, which will scatter at abon je werven to close the varying speeds from the place) sland at nigh? When we left on where, an instant before.

As we unparked. wrapped budes rolled beneath our feet, submarine bearings tripped us up, copper-frat bearings gleamedį

in the sun.

Simple Basis

the

Britain's

the Wednesday night, It stillatum was locateil. Each frag- Watch

wasn't there--only a promise by ment will have the same effect the contractors to get it up be. un the sensitive layer of plato fore the morning, On the Thurs. 48 would an exposure

to the

The tracks of all the elec-

preserved

Industry

day, the great opening day-t light. was there all right, securely padlocked, but WHERE WERE trically-charged partleles orgina- THE KEYS?

A striking feature of the, Bri- ting within the plate are thua There we were, locked out. automatically

until fish post-war industrial scene

All the other stands open

and such time as the plate is develop. has been the attempt to re-es. adorned with immaculate

re- sci

They then appear as so tablish the country's clock and silver, watch industry and to restore it perspastritiveR tapiya to you). many trails of metallle either be key which can Frenzied searches for the

viewed to the leading position it held in fallel to produce it. But five directly beneath the microscope, the nineteenth century.

we or projected on to a serven and Such a policy requires more minutes before zers hour found a carpenter, who "opened" there photographed.. Or again, than extensive and specialised the stand with-a-hummer-and they can be photographed_in_a_plant. It demands a supply of chisel, and at 11 am. we smod normal way through

by, cool and calm, to receive the microscope.

Stual of experted visitors.

admiring

the first-class technicians trained in night engineering to a higher degree of precision than is re- quired in any other branch.

One Advantage One advantage of the method is that a large number of disin THIMBLE-CUTTER tegrations can be produced with- Among the many items of in a single plate, merely by equipment used by Britain's leaving it in a auliable position Post Office la a thimble-cutter, for disintegrations to take place, designed to help teleprinter when everything which may operators to affix the mesange happen within the plate will be tape to the telegraph form and recorded.

to cut the tape at the end of the; The scientist mainly respon line.

sible for the precision and The consistent 'adhesion and versatility which this methed straight severance, of the tape now possesses 18 Dr. C. F which result from the use of Powell, of the H. H. Will the thimble contribute to the Laboratory of the University of neatness of the telegraph form. Bristol, England. He has been The thimble is worn on the in working on it for about ten dex finger of the loft hand, und] years. all new teleprinter operators With him la Dr. G.P.S. are given training in Ita use. Occhialini who, in 1934 in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cam- bridge, was responsible with Professor P.M.S. Blackett for

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Sonic years before the war, S. Smith & Song (Eng.) Ltd. founded a school in Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham, to provide training for designers, Instru- ment, clock and watch engineers, and highly speciallaed craftsmer. auch as press toolmakers and in- strument makers.

The school is now turning out badly-needed practical Lech- nicians of all kinds, versed in the necessary theory and perience for the mass production of watches and fine instruments.

Johnson's Famous

planeer work on the positive Waxes

electron. Credit for this Inter discovery has rightly been given Dr. Carl Anderson of Pasadena,

to

Occhialini

cx-

At

"Tho world's largest-selling polish" in the proud claim of S. C. Johnson & SOIL Іл Australia, England, France, Ca- But it is worth remembering neda and the United States thera that Occhialini, whose name in are factories as well as agencies

to maintain tils leadershió, now coming into the news again,

Johnson's agree that cheaper was a member of the British polishes can be purchased. research team which, but for a the same time, they maintain no few weeks of priority, would more economical polish has yet have been first with this great been made, nor a better..

Johnson's famous range in. discovery. Dr. Occhialini has worked in the interval in both cludes prepared wax for polish- ing floors, furniture and wood. Italy and Brazil, Finally, to work; powdered wax for dance these two scientista. must be floors; "Blem," for the removal added the name of the Ilford of all minor blemishes; self-po- lines. Company, which has produced lishing "Glo-cont," for

tiça, rubber floors, etc.; and the special plates they use.

"Carnu," for car, cleaning and One can outline their main

polfahing. experiment by saying, that Dr.

All Johnson products bear the Powell and Dr. Occhialini have "Tested and Approved" kaal of been able to obtain automatic the

"Good Housekeeping records of the estimated total of Bureau.” 8,000 individual disintegrations merely by exposing a set of theac Motor or Engineering.... Nx Sze special plates for a few weeka

Among the smallest power sour- to cosmic radiation at the Pieces ever made are the "Electro- Un Midi Observatory high in the tor" electric motors being made by Pyrenees. Not all these have Rev Motors Ltd, Knowsley House, been fully worked out yet, Bolton. The mallest model in loss though a number of quite than 34. in. in length and diameter. spectacular observations have yet runs at 7000 rpm on 14 volts boen made, MNRA B

Larger models are altable for Agilvur atom, for example, such purposes as operating wind- has been observed to be shatth. In. diameter, and 9/16th In screen wipers, a-roll model of tered into at least ten or twelve length, running £ 5000 rom and "different fragments-probably I developing a turque of 0.02% 1b/in.

Radio-controlled tysis are

ON

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which is carrying out experiments, The taxi driver is equipped with

set

thai radio receiving while already, driving one fare, he ent le directed to the next by a radio message from headquarters,

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