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THE CHINA MAIL, THUR SDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1947.

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Breause

Driush colonel,

whe is is in the metal index.

try, visited the United

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This is the Fulmer Researth Institute.

organiza- Jan profit

tim established to give indus trial firms wider upp riunities of using the advance by fir made in natural be

of the

It is to be the Best British Poter for

14ured re watch Battelle and Boer of Men Institutes in the Ualt- ed States providing industri:d ant putili aranizations with The opgructuraly

have hig Lo poble deklet at their be bait, the salts of the work remaining the property of the BJUNGPS,

it will supplement the work Luf universities, government re- search centres, and the flora- teries of private firms.

Founder of the Fulmer Re- search Institute at Stoke Pages Ja Col. W. C. Devereux. well- known in Britain as

ht metal Industrialist.

"When I had the opportunity

of visiting the States, I made

a particular afquly of the sya, tem of sponsored research in De- peration there," Colonct

"I found in it vereux declared, what seemed to be an impor- lant development which we had passed by completely in this make country. I resolved to

every effort to introduce it in this country as soon as the op- portunity occurred."

Dr. Gross

Hekling the post of Principal Sciential Is Dr. P. Gross.

academic

New Turbo-Generator For Kowloon British

As reported on this page last week, the major shipment of parts for a new 20,000-kilowatt turbo-generator for the Hok Un plant of China Light & Power recently arrived in the Co- tony from the United Kingdom, This picture shoes the 38- ton generator, stator being la nded at the wharf with the aid of the naval floating crane. (Photo by L. Kadooria),

MASS PRODUCTION OF PRE-FABS

(By F. C. Othman).

Radio Valves

The stands of the British valve manufacturers at Radio- lympin were, of particular terest this year. Their exhibits

In-

| demonstrate that, in thla. Beld too, the industry is well ahead

of in the practical appilention ita terholen research achieve. monta.

One industrint valve, claimed by its makers to be the "valve of the future," incorporates im- portant constractional changes. Another new valve by the same arm, shown for the first time, ไห a miniature valve which

维 given performance

similar to that of a full-alzed counterparts. These miniature

the by

valves were developed for

"walkle talkie" sets used Commandog when raiding enemy

consts during the recent war.

uge

Silica Envelope

de-

An naktanding advance monstrate by another leading firm of valve munufacturers is the sillen envelope. The advant-

over the standard ype is that the valve can be "large" mail physically but electrically. Furthermore, thei high melting point, obviates the need for forced alt cooling.

Such exhibits show the long radiu path which-tho-British- valve has travelled since it was broadcast designed purely for receivers and transmitters. For instance, one can turn from a

the tiny valve no bigger than

top of attle finger to a big valve which drives an engine that tells the farmer when his wheat is dry enough to cut.

Another valve has been at- pro- iracting the amateur and fessional photographer because It produces a flash of one mil- lionth of a second and lasts vir-

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The United States Steel Co., has a subsidiary hitherto had to carry a load of

which is doing a land-office business in pre-ash bulbs. fabricated houses, which it turns out some- thing like automobiles, delivers to the cus- tomer's lot, and erects in a twinkle.

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The overscan demand for in- dustrial valves such as these is very heavy. The firm is erecting a num-jde. This session was na sur-understandably former Viennese theoretical ber of these houses on the out-prising, almost, as the wooden This firm, for instance, la semi- Washington, and beams in the steel company's ing.70 to 80 per cent of some of and physical chemist who was skirts of

its products ‘abroad, dismissed from his post at handsome they are, too,

Senator McCarthy asked: with these expanded Vienna University by the Nazismulet house, with the modern

the organisation in 1938.

furniture lent for the occasion Why can't the Government get anles, Dr. Gross held the highest by a local store. I examined-together-with-itself-on-what-a-evolved-a-fine-technique-in-mar-

clomped house in worth?

keting. It has also established a GOLDEN KEY ADVERTISING & DECORATION CO. distinction possible carefully.

It turned out that the ap-technical service which places from an Austrian university. down into the cellar and there After leaving Austria he went to my amazement-was a big praiser of the Federal Housing at the customer's disposal to Istanbul and thence to Bria-wooden beam holding up the Agency takes a look at a small full resources of its laboratories tol University, England. He floor.

house and says it is worth 37,- and the experience of its has published about 40 origin- "Yes," confessed the United 500. Then the G.L. buyer goca glucers.

British makera of domestic al scientific papers and the im- States Steel Co., man, banging to the Veterans Administration

out radios pride themselves on their portance of his academic work his head. "Wood. We Just Loan Division. It sends

nather appraiser, who says welghly contribution to the In- 18 attested by the financing of can't get the steel.”

the the same house is worth $10,- dustry's export drive but

valve manufacturers are Also playing a full part. And they are confident that the constant advances in development and ap- When the Fulmer Research

This, sald McCarthy, is con- plleation of the industrial valve, Institute was opened officially by can get some steel it will re

place those steps with metal | fusing. How come? Well sir, backed by the reputation for re- Sir Stafford Cripps, then Presiones. The corporation is ask said Raymond Foley. Adminis-ability and service, will ensure dent of the Board of Trade, ing its customers please, to be trator of Federal Housing this British industry of constant there was garden-party air)

Agency, the burenu valued a world ́aules long after the pre- house at its long-term worth, sent "sellers' market" has dis- while the Veteran's appraisers appeared.

gured on what it would cost

many of his researches by auch. He-aid-maybe-1-also-noticed. |000 organizations as the Rockefel-the wooden stairs I descended. ler Foundation and the Vant Purely temporary. As soon us Hof Fund, Amsterdam.

the United Staten Steel Co.

patient.

about things. Or. to be pre- And when the biggest steel cise, about the mellow red-brick mansion with its leaded win company in the world can't get dows, its creepers climbing up Eteti to put on its own houses, to peer at the metallograph (u you can be sure things are dif- polarized light metal-examin-ficult all over in the building ing microscope on the ground trades.

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Confusing

to rebuild if it burned down. said. Long- Very simple, he term valuca V present day costs.

This didn't sound simple to the Senator. He sald the off- Serators Joseph R. McCarthy | cials ought to agree on what a hedges, butside the workshops; and John J. Sparkman along house is worth and not draw

floor) and its stately Hagged terrace; outside the physics la- boratory; the smooth green lawn, enclosed by neat privet

Inquiry

Officials also agreed that

the rose garden with its rustic with Kep. Ralph. H. Gamble, veterans into their arguments. arches; the aluminium marques cut short their summer vaca tent set on the lawn to sheltertions to open an inquiry Into, what this country needs most ara old-fashioned nails to drive the fen and ice-creams in case the housing shortage."

At their

planks. United first session they into wooden

it rained, and the gilded chairs set in 12 rows in the open for called in a dozen officials repre- Press. the guests to sit on while they senting as many agencies hav- listened to the speechos.

ing to do with houses, to find

Sir, Stafford Cripps spoke of out what the Government can gapa in the

British research

system which tend to delay the

Plumbing

Hong Kong Burglar Alarm

The simplest things are often the most effective, and thai would appear to be true of a new burglar-alarmı switch which, has been invented by a 60-year old Hong Kong Chinese.

In appearance, it is a small cylin der about half the length of the average lipstick case and about one and a half times the diameter. This makes It easy to install in a bole drilled in the upper part of a door or window jumb, It fits flush into the hole, with only a small spring. Plumbing fixtures and supplies loaded button protruding when the

be shipped promptly door is opened,

application of new discoveries available for a great number Fixtures

can now

to production processes "often of, firms which if they tried to for years and decadea" and provide them themselves in- pointed out how 'fortunato this dividually would need' a vastly is in view of Britain's production greater staff and that staff from the United States to Hong Two small wires lead. inside the and export needs. He stated u doesn't exist in this country to Kong, according to an announce door or window to a bell, electile hope tho Fulmer Institute day.

ment by George. Lin & Co, would be the prototype of "I hope therefore the Fulmer! These are all of the latest typeght or other warning device. With several new organizations which Research Institute will meet and range from shower heads the door shut, pressure on the bui

When would fill the gaps. -

with every success and will by with and without volume control ton disconnects the current.

and Sen the door is opened,

however, the connection is made and the alarm and reward its founders. I tercet lavatories

automatically raised, hope, too, it may be the fore

An intermediate switch between alarm-button and the bell or light

Economy

its success and growth justify and Elwyn, Mardale

with

"There is one other aspect of runner of other institutions ori the Institute' I should like, to similar. Îines."--",

drains.

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In gliding competition at will enable the alarm to be, dia- mention. It will economizo Sto The Instituto already has Wichita Falls, Texas, Charles connected at will,

Retailing at the remarkably low scientific effort. Today wo aro started work on snert problems; Wingfield, of Shrowabury, price of $5, the ́alarm-switch' Ju woofully short of a first-class one of which is directed towarda member of Britain's team, Bet manufactured by the Kwong AN research staff. We haven't mear the production of purest up a new long distance record. Industrial Co, whose solo, agrāts are ly enough to do all the jobs wo aluminium, from very impure Ho flow 216 'miles (844, kam), the «Golden Key.. Advenising A nhould, be doing. The Inalilute materials" without involving any a considerable improvement on Decorating Co., in the Peddør build- will enable the facilities to be] great increase in 'cost, a

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