1948-02-26 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, -1949.

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ELECTRICAL IDEAS........ ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT

Represented by

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CARTER &

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& SUTTON

INDUSTRIAL AND COMFORT

Air Conditioning

236A HONG KONG SHANGHAI RANK BLDG..

Engineers SHANGHAI

Telephone 28804.

For delivery of

TWYFORDS LTD.

Sanitary Fixtures

Apply to

D. CARTER

238A HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANK BLDG.

Telephone 28004.

Overall dimensions:

Model SC.. 152

43" wide x 25" deep x

084" high

Internal dimensions:

374" wide x 18" deep x

42" high

Not capacity

18 cúbic feet. External panels of steel. bcn. derised, Anished with durable white synthetic anomel. Welded construction throughout.

The Interiors consist-of-one-piece- heavy gaugo' steal linera finished in white porcelain enamel, with rounded -corners - and

resisting bases,

ENGINEERING PAGE

Twenty Years' Life ELECTRIC TRAINS

In New X-Ray Tubes

La- There

Development of a new, long-fare benmed on the film through taqing X-ray tube designed to a window in the glass tube the} aid dentists in the diagnoala of size of a wrist watch crystal. tooth ailments is announced in This window, made of special Bloomfield, N.J.

hard glass which transmis X- The tube can take a 70,000-rays, le ground down to a unt volt heating and yet last for 20 form thickness of ùbout 20 one- years, scierilists of Westinghouse | housands of an inch for all Electric Corp., said. 11 is one tubes, assuring the radiographer of the smallest X-ray tubes ever of consistent exposure,“ manufactured, no longer than Lempert and that in other a power tube in a home radio models, the tube windows had to.

be made thicker as a protection The new tube is being made against unused electrons avallable after having operated | leashed within the tube. stendily on text for 1,000 hours, unused electrons, in effect, jerk. the equivalent of about two years ed gases out of the glass walla of normal usage in a dentist's of the labe, limiting its life, he offlce, according to Joseph Lem- said. pert, Westinghouse Electronics The Westinghouse scientists enginver.

said the hooded anode was sog- The lube was the result of a geated by discovery of Buck clue found in Germany X-ray dental tubes among German X- equipment reized during the war. ray equipment. The new tube, I design als minimizes stray they wild, is an improvement en ruuliation, or bullets, that some- the German design. times blur X-ray filma and cause retakes to be necessary.

Lempert explained that the key departure in the new design is a copper hond surrounding the tube's node, a tungsten target which electrons smash into t a 90.000-miles-a-second clip. to produce the X-rays. These electrons travel at about half the speed of light,

Push-Button

Telegraphy

been between

"Push-button telegraphy" pre- Lempert said that the X-ray-† viewing new era in Western

delivery, has now moducing electrons are trapped Union inside the tube's hooded

in operation areu.plared which shields the rest of the Philadelphia and New York, tube from bombardment by stray radiation bullets,

"As the electrons bounce off the target," Lempert said, "the resultant X-rays stream through a tiny porthole in the 'hood, and

FLUORESCENT

LIGHTING

i

The Western Union Telegraph

Company sald the $2,000,000 push-button system, coupled with construction at u new radio beam network, ultimately will replace telegraph pole lines,

The Brasilian Ambassador in Great Britain tests out a strap-hanger in one of the new electric trains now under construction at the works of the Metropolitan - Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co. of Birmingham, for shipment to Brazil. At left are two factory officials.

Synthetic Electrical Glue

Industry's Load

The work demand for electri- val appliances atal purts bas grown to such proportions since World War 11, that British ex- ports in this branch of Industry, have increased enormously,

The "Electrical Review" states that Britain exported electrical

The mechanical marvel, trip. ling the capacity of present wire facilities. permits switching clerks to relay mecsuges to any of 270 destinations by merely pushing a button.

A new type of synthetic glue Western Union officials said twice as strong as brung rivets Completed Installations of other circuits only one, to New has been developed by the B.

York, is now in operation-will Cold Cathode Fluorescent Light-Boon be added. The complex maze F. Goodrich Co. ing manufactured by Mobeco of wires, button, panels and lights J. E. Thomas, a company appliances in June this year to Tue., of Boston, U.S., are offer- next will be installed at Cincin.exccutive; said an automobile the value of £5,085,316 as com- ed in the Colony. Economy.atf. Then push-button sets will be manufacturer will start to use pared with a 1938 monthly aver- effect and radiant illumination constructed in Boston Kansas it this Autumn to anchor truck age of £1,229,INR, Some of the are the chief aims of "Flolite" City, Syracuse St. Louis, Atlanta brake linings and eventually detailed figures are particulary

and Oakland, Calif. equipment which is guaranteed

will use Philadelphia Is the clearing

it on his passenger interesting and the corresponding ones fur 1938 are quoted in by Mubeen Inc., for the period house

for all messages to and car.

brackets. of

your against

Thomas said ; the new any from Pennsylvania. New Jersey,

glue

The figure for domestic wire- material or mechanical failures. Delaware

of used on brake linings may out less sets was £377,297 (£38,765), and the counties Full lustrations and particu-

Maryland

the mode the use of rivets, since for coking and heating appliances and Virginia on Delmarva Peninsula. Jars of

Messages the lining then can be Commercint Lighting,

worn £236,382 (£30,664), for insulating Commercial Unit Lighting. In arriving there are sorted by rout down to the shoe without re- materials £121.537 (19,343), for

ing clerks and carried by con placing it and without the dan-generators direct Lighting. Lumitile, Show-veyor belts to relay

2551,235 (£157,ÍGO). Case Lighting, etc., can be sup-| who retransmit the message on ser of rivet heads cutting and for vacuum cleaners and ridgek In the brake drums. parts, £235,738 (426,662) The plied on application to George teletypes.

largest deliveries were made to Lin & Company.

A radio beam system has been

British Commonwealth countries, operated experimentally between

Soviet Russia and Norway, Philadelphin and New York since February, 1945, the company sold. Commercial use will start short- ly over a system connecting Phil adelphin, Pittsburgh. New York and Washington.

one

PRESTCOLD

SERVICE CABINETS

ICE-MAKER AND COOLING UNIT.-

Six ice trays giving 12 lb. of ice per freezing.

CRISPATOR.-A “crispator" drawer of porcelain enamelled steel for the storage of salads, etc., is suspended on runners on the lower shelf.

DRIP TRAY —A large drip of porcelain enamelled steel is provided. This can be used also for the storage of fish,. etc.

Agents:

FAR EAST ASSOCIATED MERCHANTS LTD.

Distributors:

REISS, BRADLEY & CO. LTD.

National City Bank of N.V. Building, Hongkong./

Tel: 28006/THE

operators.

Brewery Trade Exhibition

"TEXTILE" SPRAY

Britain's brewery trade held its The spraying of wood or card- metal surface is an The company said radio beam frat post-war exhibition in Octo board with

and used In transmission, with radio towers ber. It was held in London and beerpted process 30 to 50 miles apart to relay was the largest of its kind ever industry the world over. A Bri super high-frequency waves, is singed.

A number of new types tish firm has now adapted the not affected by the weather haz-of very interesting machines and pray process to provide a textile ards that frequently cut service appliances, which are of great finish. over telegrnoh poles and lines. value for the development of the The process makes it possible Associated Press.

trade, were seen,

to spray any surface with An entirely new machine has material having the appearance been designed for battling beer, of suede and being both fadeless creaseless. The work is The first mass radiography and the pasteurizing and labeli- und service to be installed in a facing machines are, also interesting.completed in a few seconds. One tory in Great Britain has been Firms specialising in cellar equip "cartridge" suffices to pray

ment displayed corking muchines, surface of 60 square fect with Inaugurated at the Ford work thermostatic controls and other material. in Dagenham.

new models,

Three types of finish and 10 The exhibition proved very at different shades are so for avail- tractive also because, visitors hadable. The time will soon be com the opportunity of insting wines.ng when a card table or the in-

.

In view of a misleading re- The Commonwealth wine produeterior of a car may be sprayed port in one of the Home papera, ing countries had their best wares with the covering required, the Daimler and Lanchester on show,,and "best" refers to companies have publicly srated both taste and price,

that they have no intention of

ceasing manufacture of any of Saffron Walden Town Coun. their cars. On the contrary, cil have, agreed to make repre every effort is being made to in-sentations to the petroleum of crease production, especially for ficer for a special petrol ration the export market.

for the local chimney sweep.

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