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SCIENCE AND THE WAR. NATIONAL PHYSICAL

LABORATORY.

AN ASSET OF PEACE.

I.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT TU THE DAILY

-TSLEGRAPH."]

The victory b. which the Peace Treaty gives definition is already acknowledged to be larg. 1. a victory of material. By our presisien of the material of war, and by the excellence of that slime, material, the

enemy was breight at long last to defeat. and the German aution, for so long

AUGUNT 15TH, 1919.

ALUMINIUM RESRABUH.

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEE FROM LONDON, COLOMBO 18

task of educating the workers and ear- ployers in regard to gauges Illustrated Substitutes were found also for nati- papers were produced and circulated primonial lead,, eurtridge, brass, days for vately to the various arms, setting out fuses, etc., and in fact, for every metallic the defects most common, and showing how substance needed in large quantities, save such could best be avoided; new designs stee! and leath, while immense.. itaprovei were prepared of various machines andments were effected in the constitution their parts to explain how it was possible, and production of non-magnetic materials by slight alterations and additions, O

for instruments, electrodes for sparking) transform a machine which must neces

plugs for air engines, and a hundred and sarily have an output of an inferior

une ether things. Perhaps the most character, into one capable of producing startling and far-reaching metallicgical

"GLENIFFER" work of the standard demanded; and umy

work of the laboratory figs been that which

asting arrived froth the above porta Plovers and those responsible for the has helped to stilish the position of signs of Carge by her are the cut Con alumniam as an engineering material, ai unt all Goods are being lended at their risk control of the work were encouraged to

HE Stewmbay

THE

01

STRAITS.

acclaimed as the foremost materially come to Bushey Park that they might factor of immerse importance in regard downs of the Hongkong and Kowloon!

scientific nation of the earth, has now y admit that the despised Briton is, in all and applications, physical, material, mechanical, ais master.

And chief of the justinutions and departments which has helped to sinash the Germans reputation. as the preeminent material scientists in the National Physical Laboratory at Ted- dington, that huddle of buildings o quietly, set at a corner of Bushey Park,

learn even more fully and readily how best they could help their country The result was wonderful, and now the lessons leurned are amongst our chief assets of the future.

A WONDERFUL. STANDARD,

atid

may

nto the hasardom ad;or extra hazardous Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.. bene, and/or from the wharvem delivery muy be obtained.

Centred around a once deserted" Royal is desirable, passible, and pufacturer Zeppelins, was itself virtually a grand go be recognised.

Muon

residence, a great national laboratory has grown up-n laboratory which

the

and enthusiastic activities of the director Sir Richard Glazebrook-who

chtaining from havi

are.

stil guides its maltilarious activities, that the laboratory mayal demands, designed at Teddington, alloys were tound

Here many of the wonders of the war had and here many of the their

the origin, triumphs of the peace were either initiated or developed with which the wise inen For the solutions of the of Trdington h

have presented us, should

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now

rinngkong, August 8th 1919-

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to acrenautical construction. It is plea as to record that our scientists here had nothing to learn from the Germans in respect of this branch of their work, nod Goods not cleared by Aug 16th, 1918, that they had no ditiquity in producing, at 5 PM, will be subject to rent for airship frantes and other digst, strong

All broken, chafed and damaged package Constructo work, better alumitrium Already manufacturers have learned alloy than our enemies, on this connection will be examined by Mesars. Goddard k are to be left in the Godowns where they that even a higher standard than that toat

be of thereal in tiation that Douglas, on Aug 16th, 1919, at 10 AM be obtained by the use of gauges capable Daratura, the erau patent alain- Claims against the Steamer must be presented of detecting errors of 1-10,000 of an inetum alloy used in the construction of the within 30 daga of rival, otherwise they will so to-day we and that such

child of the National Physical Laboratory. No Fire Lasurance will be affected by us in a? rounding

having originated from certain work car-any eso whatever' Kreatest in the was high Teddington sew standards with an ex-ied ons at Teddington as ar back" a

dilla of Lading will be countersigued by This actitude of 1-100,000 of an inch, parts being war alleys of aluminium usually growth is the restilt of the unremitting rived now, for practical use, whicker and sultened when hot. Thanks

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD, tested up to that close degree

And AD

Agents.. not find its captu the wonderful investigation plaat neity avertaken. by which instruments have

been devised by which overcame this Wifealty, and cru- be mensared up can

to plane engine castings, VI

finish 1-1,000,000 of an inch. And, in so doing, and strength equal to the requirements, the designers and inventors have given us are BOW mace from the laboratory) a new industry, small, yet of immense im tornule. Cylinder blocks, pistons, and crank cases for aeroplane engines are only be amongst the greatest assets of the res

to the war, the manufacture of a few of the parts construction which is to come..

now Back and seme Obviously.

the metal standards much of the work that has

governing our ide of the advantages secured

Sun bu been done was done in secrecy-some is engineering sizes was largely in the hands imagined wher. i it is stated that the use

-S.S. "COLOMBIA", VOY, IN-OUT. to be for ever secret--and naturally theo & famous neutral firm. This made at an aluminium allog for aeroplan FROM SAN FRANCISC HONOLULU, workers in the buildings and shops around speciality of the manufacture of the little

Pistons

power by more than the eld Royal home at Bushey were bound steel plates of varying thickness, which per cent, and, at the same time, effect JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAI AND tre silence. Four and a half

gave us the peasarements for our gauges, fed a Years

and these were made by them correctly to counterable reduction in the petrol |

MANILA. silence makes a man

tongue slow in

within

Today, also, our rolled 1-10,000 of

inch. Once or twice Habit, and it is not surprising therefore, during the jangling years of war it looked poses, are mach superior to anything ever arrived, from the above-mentioned aluminium alloys, used for structural pur THE above-mentioned vessel having tha the remarkable

2if certain gathered around Sir Richard Glazebrook if of the neutral nations would

produced in Germany

As an instance of what has been done informed that their Cargo will be landed an Porte, Consignees of cargo are hereby Still find free utterance regarding any of have to throw in their but on the side their labours

dire surprising and dim of one or the other of the belligerents in this direction mention must be made their risic into the Haarious ensored a sad therefore it was deemed advisable of an alloy if this metal which has been Hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and to accomplish. Enough may be said, however; to show, that we owe the develop a seddington should be instructed to practiced at Teddington for the purpose Kowloon Whad and Godown Co., Ltd., and nient of standardised and speciali prer plates, so that we could, if desired, be in arroplaags, thus greatly reducing the

a runner of preparing these standard of

standard of providing Eight, Breproof Fabrio forored at

stored at Consignees risk. duction, which alone gave us the neces

Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified. ale dependent of the neutral firm. This Bury volume

lime of munitions, almost entirely to Teddington; that to these workers alone is due the ervation of a scand line

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should the

of

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Prob

the

of the investigation was

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEED,

"

m lem was solved, and solved in such a Ter of burning accidents when ving. that they must produce an Import Permit

object manner that these standards can now be produce a metal fabric of continuousigned by the Superintendent of Imports of material, tested and ready for applican and by a simple misthed capable of and tenuity, should couching the strength

produced correct up to 3-1,000,000 of an character, which, with exceeding lights and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of

Lading can be countersigned. isolated us from cert, HS

ever have co. nercial development.

All broken, of steel. When the proposal to make such

chafed and damaged goods are s left in serpe were devripped the ronditions, 101 only" work of the metrological dep need. the experts of the big manu-Ave 18th

fabric of aluminium alloy was first board the Godowns, where they will on 14th, at 10 am, and work was done in regard to the turning that such compounds could not be rolled,

in

A.M... declaring

All Claims must be presented within & mouth of the Steamer's arrival here, after

that

anging and its control was not the and much bad

errors were

absolutely

that aquare

rolled

ch

showed its faculty of rising..superior ends must be achier and most probably cheaper than the or-

automatic stability of aeroplanes which sundered night-firing possible; and that

•here, too, were performed a

and one tasks of unexpected "and nonsual character and of an unexampled urgency. The war was the acid test of British science It is right to acknowledge, fully and beartily, that no phase of British life

the occasion so plainly as that which fin its highest expression nt Teddington.

Where the work of so many departments is so intermingled as is the case at the National Physical Laboratory, it is not easy to set out a record in due order, but, undertaken was that of standardising pro- duction.

Much has been written during the war regarding the wonderful gauge work carried out

hundreds of lac ! the toris erected all over the country for the otput of various portions of walls and other munitions of war involving

THE BASIS, OF AUTOMATIC PRODUCTION.

exact

to be

A

No Claim will be admitted after the goods left the Godowns, and all goods

of screw threads on bolts and the internal but, notwithstanding this, the task washich they cannot be recognized. ring threads to cover the same. Modern accomplished, and aluminion

alloy sheets work, requires often that two parts, when engineering, especially in aeronautical can now be

commercially, down to a thickness thinness seems the bet

bet baya screwed together, should form a perfect ter term of .002515, and expable of -aining undelivered after Aug. 16th, will

Pitch, aiza, depth, and during a tensile strain of thirty tons to be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance. whatever will be an alloy is lighter effected." the desired result is to

Such d. And the checking of, or instance, a dhary doped linen fabric and there is Eils of Lading for countersignature im Consignees are requested to send in their all screw by means of any ordinary little doubt that we shall shortly and mechanical device controlled by human our aeroplanes all equipped, as to wing

andmediately. hands and dependent upon the Fuman eye and body covers with this latest result of PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY is practically impossible, so it was found Teddington's activity.

Uwing to the

Alexandra Buildings. necomary to design both horizontal and amity of the edges of such thin metal sheets to tear--some idea of what is meant

Hongkong, August-0th, 1919. τινοι projecting

of by 025 of an inch can be gathered when the actual threads of a green or is cust magnifed images of taken from a ring thrand. These projec safety razor steel blades, is 009'ul a inch

is remembered that the thinnest tions were easily and exactly. checked against large

me special and very ungenious method of and carefully prepared fastening the new alloy to the framework INDO-CHINA STEAM drawings, selling out enlargements of the has be is designed, but it is not possible

HAPPY HIT perhaps, the art of the great duties bere vertical" projectors, for the purpose of

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required, and many a math say anything further at this stage, as

received a shock when he saw t NAWILŻ

character, but very few re repetitive alise that it was the laboratory, at Ted- dington which stood behind all that workton the amount of error revealed in work

which he had prided himself was The Real Burley Cigarette beds in shells and such things were and theres little doubt that the higher

thes far-off time before August, 1914, don

Errors detected can be avoided. supplied by one brother of the few firms standard made possible and commercial which specialand in such production. In by the Teddington system saved our men's the workshops of these firms the various tives as well as the country's money. parts were assembled, and it was possible

CLINCAL THERMOMETERS.

IT'S TOASTED. Pasily to arrange ti hrting of the

The institution commented to thrive uus pieces which went to a finished upon its work-even the Treasury increas weight.

given about four granty demands of modern teen or battle made it impossible for these arms radnally, the authorities, whether ad- to satisfy even a tithe our

La method is still regarded as a secret by our Government, thungu it is under- stood to be the intention of the authorities commercial utilisation of the discovery Lo publish the details shortly, so that full may be possible.

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NAVIGATION

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE:

MAGNIFICENT ADVISORY WALK. And during this period of original productina, the usual advisory work,THE Steamship greatly intensified by the war, as wa inevitable, was being carried out.

**NAMSANG" considerable use of the latest having arrived from above ports, Consignees of devices for high-power

photo-micro-Cargo by her are hereby informed that all

THO

article of a certain "standard sc anded the teen hundred per cent and croscopical examination of metals, in-

The

An entirely New principle in an urgency for thes, and mirafty, War Ofice, Munitions Ministgraphy, has been of "unique service to Goods are being landed at their risk into the

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processes were

being

cuantry.so pr

or the Air Service

generally, came s

My came to rely to arrange its prethods of production he targely upon it for most things that mat in destinat taid of dino Hongkong extra horror Godowns to enable us to perform, in bulk, with the tered To-day the National Physical manufacturers in difficulties, metals the and Wharf nere attention of unskilled labour, the Laboratory is

is the place where all the

used in

air vessels and other Godown Company, Limited, whence, and/or which had carried out in every clinical thermometers used in this detail

weird nickel chrome steel from the wharves, delivery may be obtained. hoderate scale, by skilled are given their cartibrace of character, forgings, and other new compounds, often Goods not cleared by Aug, 0th, at Noon ri-skilled workers.

something closely approaching 30,000 reveal undesired attributes, and it was

will be subject to

to rent was nessary to make week of these.**

All broken, chafed, and damaged packages | ti

uf manufacture practically examined wat Suides to influenza" to the stiff at Teddington that the G

Of equal importance, ernment and the manufacturers looked are to be loft in the Godowns, where they automatically exact, so that the various perhaps, was the testing, and improve

rove for a method of overcoming the various will be examined. Claims against the stemmer fool-proof A.L ment of pyrometers and other special pre difficulties. The fact that they never look-must be presented within 10 days of arrival; the same time, automatic production, in-cision thermometers for the checking of ed in vain is a magnificent testimony to otherwise they will not be recognized. solving, as it did an immense amount of beat treatments and for those dangerous, sistency of these seekers after truth, who any case whatever.

the knowledge, understanding and per-

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in ent and maintenance of a standard of tillation of toesses involved in the dis- petition work, compelled the establish- if

if necessary,

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by accuracy far higher than had been known In the engineering departirent, as in

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lin, in many engineering, shops before 1914; its ally, the metallurgical department, an and the institution in the Kingdom

General Managers. which could curly out the task of con-

Hongkong, August 13th, 1918 {1114. such a standard was the one at trolling Teddington, Woolwich neither the expert staff nur the exact appliances, and accordingly the work Was entrusted to the National Phy xical Laboratory. This latter body, a a matter of fact, did quite 95 per cent. of the gauge and other which had to be done, but it did also

more.

had

ient of

etc.

the

were often able to ascertain the reasons for failure, and to devise methods by which success was obtained. Typical was of the investigation into the faults Grous amount of highly valuable ori-sing in the

big iron plates to the large increase in respect of the much used in France

a certain portable electrolytic apparatus, ordinary duties of these sections.

The

At the beginning many talented men and women, too, for about 40 per cent of these plates crack- that matter under Dr. T. E. Staatan, ed under the conditions of their work- F.B.B., and Dr. Waiter

they had something to do with F.R.S.

have undertaken much

Na- research work, speedily utilised to our war advantage, both in regard to general engineering and aerodynamics, and in It taught the old masters and the now. workers what duplication and inter- Indeed, Dr. Rosenhain was called upon, netallurgy and metallurgical chemistry changeability really meant,

during the war, practically to provide our

forces with a second line of

IMPROVEMENT OF GAUGES,

The gauges were checked at a rate, when

metal

in intensity, and always the

and were rendered useless. gen tional Physical Laboratory investigated the trouble and advised the taking of certain steps, with the result that the proportion of faults decreased from 40 to 1 per cent.

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per week, being examined by the check danger present that our shipping would

pressure was at its highest, of some

11 2012with the submarine

menace ANOTHER TERROR ADDED TO WAR POSTAGE

bored.

gauges of the laboratory, which last were. below the standard necessary to main- One feature of the Department of In in

gruved anuges, here manufactured the master win supplies, it was felt advisable to terior exhibition (U.S.A.) is is a 204 Even the provision of gauges which were

Arrange alternative metals and subati- chemical, 1,000 tons of which were being tates, so that, if required, we could manufactured at the time of the signing correct to 1-10,000 of an inch for the furnish our Navy and armies with fight armist

21 the

It is a poison knowa machine shops of the country was not suffling material for all purposes from natural Professor W. Lee Lewis."

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named from its inventor, cient, however. The machines in use

of North-western In many cases, badly made:

and work and available sources.

First there appeared a possibility of a

faiversity. According to a description all over the country were failing to secure shortage of the cupro-nickel with which published in the Press, one drop of this the securacy dented. The extreme limit our tendon rifle bullets are covered, and liquid, packed into the palm of a hand, which could be

be allowed, for instance, in alloys in which nickel was not required would penetrate to the blood and thenco

in the early days this was a standard of exacting service demanded of bulleta Lowisite to wipe out every vestige of ille scrow gauges was 3-10,000 of an inch, but wero produced which could withstand excellence difficult to obtain, even

Then it was

netemary to Have the

the

to the heart, almost instantly. Ten aeroplanes have carried enough

STAMP

CATALOGUES

from

Scott Stamp Co., New York.

Yvert et Tellier, Paris.

YN'T

Bright & Sons, London. Whitfield King & Co., Ipswich.

vital importanec. Often the fluminium tips with which the rive reached the American front in RACA & Q.O

of shells were not fixe they reached base in France, and thepal, and substitutes for there were

and

fixed to the bodies inside its cupro-nickel mantle, is

produced,

Bullets no made were

in Berlin. If the armistice had not been signed by the Germans 1,000 tons would France by

March. The poison manufac

the work of different parts from different district in this country was found to tested, and found to be as accurate and turing plant, the story continties, was vary in such degree as to render much penetrating as those provided with the near Cleveland, and was making, ten toon: which had been provided sales. In tirumain tips, and though we were not daily All workers in this plant had circumstances the scientific engineers and I called upon to use them, they were ready agreed to live on an 11-acre factory not metrologists of Teddington started on the if needed.

to let the secret leak out.

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