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all ship are fully equipped with the new discovery it should be impossible for any sea captain to kaše his-cltip, save under Wresa of a storm

Other ininense advances in wareh 8 mat- tors have been made. The three slectrode

Sacum in has been investigated by Lundreds of workers the world over, and in this development th falratory has helmed... It is at present the aust Rounder: ful liskuing apparatus Shown. far paperiör testans microphone shiel ̈eaning" made For yxample: There is a sund sg of these Vacmm tabes, moaned in eries, forming, with the segmental tuning dise and grinder, a' revels ing set for wire less messages

it tipped with the usual forptione listening cap, and is set up in the basemdit in old beshey House tseit. We go down with Mr. Smith, nuch and tuning se be manipulates the

inch

so that we can, packalli messigen mu by a sural-power apparatus length of about

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ADMINISTRATIRE ORDERS BY MAJOR. Q,

WANEMAN, V.D., ACTING ADMINIA- TRATIVE COMMANDANT.

STREŅOTH.

Xo, 212 gud, Corpl. W. J. Owens, and No. 4 Sapporo, L. Lopes. Engineer Poate permitted to resign, on Leaving the Colony, datis! August sth, 1019

No,

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sta lite, M. J. 18, Stephens, "D"

Co. is permitted to sign under Section 7 (2) of the Military Servicu Ordinance, 1917, dated August 14th,

1910.

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19th. 1919.

LIVE

Sergi. W. M. Humphreys, "A" Co. is

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OLDERS FOR ENGINEER COMPANY BY CAPTAIN B. HALL.

KCRETS OF THE TANK. Standard ships were a defensive ma sure, but not all the tasks of the tank were defensive. It was here that the costing of seaplanes in regard to their cuarium on the water #gs carried out, sneh sptestións as the resistnnes, stability, and ranning angle being determined Frota the molek

In additina, sveri brownied It is is trying

no secret to state that Flap wacististigated under practical con- cerat svientists at Teddington and else itions,spcially with regard to its ten

Be hit. tertore, the war, midravoured denne to "paspise."

jump from the to persuade the muckerties that the pi

water in wad of ulighting quietly on that tion of this country with regard to the

Pormising" Is both discot- havi i ot optical glass. wake a verg forting and dangerous, änit naval aviators serious pu 10 look the war to minor a debt to. Mr. Baker and his assistants wa: flovenation: the scientists were at this habit of floats-is now purely meet right, and most of san remember theth.

The tank would" beti #, fine story of the Trantie appeals waich, were made to the stretch of some of our fastest types general public to hand over to the drug sepeda erit; at how the large and

And small beats ter the Mesopolazi may think which even looked like a field edition were designed; of the devices a ship, has ga

iaro metais, And we find that there is glass. SnoressiveKloverninents having gons designed to enable submarine mine to be rett for the thephone cap belon veniently, for may years, calmily ignored poised at a certain depth, but, fortunatamental that ser hear these gu

y or unfortunately, the tank is as silentatively weak signals well without it in our danger, but regarding optical and is the Nary to which it has been such na

any part of the roa

Str. Smith sets his appliance for longer cheineal glass macture and the prodiralle auxiliary, And so the result vision" of porcelains, etc. for the light the express in torpesko Bring from wave lengths, and we hear the fessages. submerged side tubes and the improvedent from the more powerful transmitting ef Continental station gwea

It is temperature work of modern indestry, methods and results arrived at in connec apparatus

is just three o'clock, we are surprised by a a load bere of opinion, apparently, that all that cion with this work, will not be embodied more clearly.

only, but he added to the great book "fontes,

Awang inseparable from talk over We uk round startlett, and our guide « Foldingten a grant, when they would seret kaowledge of the Senior Servige..

Other serets there are, too, of a strange laughs as be explains that it merg an ate discover the data acessary for

fascination to us who saw our country

ather werker, at a station Biggi hill. the establishment of the British maquine | called on to face, a possibility of strang forts miles away, giving an alterncet ture of these Grunn and foreign, mono-lation when theksubmarine began to set discourse by winless Phone polics. Even with the belated grants its grip upon our shores. Here, in the instance at the Xtreme sensitiveness afficers in dury: 2nd Lieut. Rigekira. much was accomplished, both at Tedding tank, a big part of the battle against this the vacuum tubes. The messages from the

received through Pay and Tenvelling Expenses for July, toa and elsewhere, to at the require fo was fought. A complete replica of a tones ont so he heard distinctly

this basement set, pari fe submarine, self-propelled, with twenty- right Edin ells and two motors inside and read dg a listener te than 100

It would be

to conclude any re her, did groman survive. At one time she aards away on the ground for

aninir to was a German U-boat, and we were plan-

the Paterson- ning nets to hold her at an estuary; at frener. huawer inlet to the work

wilmit nentining mother time she would be a British sub-t the National

This is the marine, the depths on her lawful height hinder for aircraft.

and perfecti destes, invented

by 1:1 IWO necasions, and doing her best to defeat the devices which immediate press per the staff at Teddington, which our tengist

for Zeppelins and shoe bi szówi że have certain degrees used

Two-plaars, I was a varying and her femies in the air. diheal fight, and the fart that today with telescopie attachments, are placed even though ostilities were to reumat ascertain known distance apart, and.

Zeppelin appeared. an absorver Tuesdağ, August 19th 1-

cach moved the plan antil harınla 10' fireat Britain, is in grent-

this. he ensure due to the tank work at Ted he had the airship in View through the switch which cummanicated with ding.on

as that which produced the subhis distant compusion, who, for his

w-ne through similar rations. When urine kite, alba paravane, were both switches were pressed, proving that tested here, the experiments finally evoly

nch observer had the enemy in Foes, the. ing a practical method of fixing these angle of the telescopes to the ground and each other were mechanical metals kites such distances from ships and

exact such depths and with such stability that the planes to each other wer

ut which the aircraft obrved was Dying, In addition to its own thousand and the staff at Teddington has

DEL INSTRUCTIONAL GLASSES.

|AVILNO PRINCEMNAL ry was to make the good propt. even in paper to be per tu seientres and sing distinctly and without the Recruits will parade for D. E.L. instruc

Itaal.

ments of the war. Rut it is more than It is the establishment in this coun- ry as a cutmbution to reconstruction. or an industry of scientific glass manu- acture, and an industry for the mans facture of the various industrial pere- fais ad varnstories, with which the National Laboratory must collaborate, as did the German Reichsalat with similar trades in what was the Kaiser's country. The laboratory with act. as they don other directions, as ourpable standardia ing body and will carry through the isans the terms of the new standards

Ous of the most wonderful, castruments in the world, being a device which alone has made possible much of the work me tion, is a curve plotting chronograph in The Metallurgical Department. It is by the use of this delicate piece of mechanism, the invention of Dr. Bosenhain, thai, the

iwary tests Trum rimte to Lame, and thence pošnogron- the submarine would be to

study of thermal changes in actitude

required which enables the scientists to see how to compose alloys of a character

HAPPY HIT hangin stem of alloys to be mapped

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As has been mentioned night flying in aeroplanes having automatic stability is the airdeg development of the work at Ted. dington. which is the official laboratory for the Advisory Colimaittee for Aeronau ties. The wind tunnels, for the testing of

Deas, which had their origin elsewhere, pope. When he had whic

heir eitting edge de short work of the submarine mines which they en

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best suited for the conditions to which countered. But these, and other stories, necely of its members to other de they are to be subjected. On this device belong more to the archives of the Degiven

thermo-lectric function between the fence Camutter, and the public, must bepartments and to other fields. Thus, Dr. Wednesday, August, 20th:--

Superintendent of 1-Et his content to be grateful that such things. J. Harker, F.

Departmen metal and the instrument moves in spat of

the Heat

of Research post there to begir Diretor of light according to the temperature of the navę beni, and are being, done. metal and the tapping of a key by the

Figleing, as we know, is a thing which at the Laboratory of the Munitions. In

vention Department while [adowpvec zegisters inverse rate beating and singene dinet, enabling all internal en scoring ach and any of the twenty-one of that has er in

Que hours in a day, and, as certain oasistants, similarly came the scientific |

of the Aeronautical inspection ut coreretly, and withinit any of the these hours are dark, the neersity for

The mariner Tepartment arise carriel Launch will leave Blake Pier on Wednes

several and *** might eyeg is "Evious. counting of chronograph tapes and carve

Arens of his compass, and the navigator others of

of the scientists plotting by hand, which was so tedious

work and traditions of Tedding of the cart of the air does the same. Yet, the ia method and so insatisfactory in result

her.

Many of the younger ahr eur p is to king for lights, it fton Tais is one of the many clever and

www joined the farees, and some who Cos 10 d to strike a match even for

spared ill never retten ; but And etman and és is tinctory to be able to the purpose of reading your course.

tury activities can be athered when it ad at a tone who many person so it was feessary to prepare heinous an den of the extension of the labora prewar staff of 18 rattle of Teulia superiority, that it compasses, Matches, clocks, and other applied that th- considered at Tradington that fires a plates that the fight by night mig has been increased to 392, the additional The Real Burley Cigarette 'unbridge, London and Glasgow are these to do his work without being seen.members of the staff, other than theen finest makers of scientific instruments Dixiously, the Teddington Laboratory engaged in purely mechanical duties,

has the plaer, in which the necessary in being practically, male and femaly, vestigation and testing work should be fence graduates of some recognised uni

arried out, and standards were prepared versity. and the various paint, tested and observed

Tou inuch stress cannot stand on the moth as paints and on the finished dials. rivery rehoolbing, as well as every Army fact that the pence.activities of the jabora theer, to-day carries a watch with del tory will be at least as important to the tominoes in the dark, but these watches country, as the war work has been. Peare

with it

it a conflict of produ have not the luminosity required by the ill bring,

tion, in which the prizes, will go to models of either airships for aeroplanes, fighter. Actually, the

proportion of

best-equipped producers, And the Na which were, it may be rescued radium bromide to zine sulphide for watch tional Physical Laboratory is

is willing

and aniongst the hest suggestions adopted dintis .01 per cent.. and dials so painted anxious practitally When the Advisory Committee

ntific diffulty which solving any have a life for. luminosity of something is to help any earnest inquirer in was formed in 1000, have proved a big round about two years. Compasses and present itself,

Side by side with the sugest, and the various improvements ther instruments or nireraft and other renting standardisation work.

work, research flected in the recnding apparatus t ds, however. do not give sufficient will be continued, and the results of suchable work during the period ander tached to these tunnels have added "greatly

(Signed) E. RALPHS to their usefulness. Here the ratio of lift light miss the zine lphide has the research will be open to all who desire to Dur audition of .01 per cent, of radium bro take adv

advantage of the pportunity.

(Ag Asst. Commissioner). thu various reigni tists dealing Hongkong, August 15th, 1919. formulae For the construction of all classes at that upwards of £230,000 worth of prepared of practical aircraft gradually defined radius has been examined through the with the subessful solution of the different lans of works, and these have been at brnight to the Kagt terms of science, fiesse beting apparatus at Twidington rate mongst the industries

affected, Experims dealing with the drop of for use in luminous paints for military to the enormous betterment of production. cab, have been numerous, and that they purpos. And auch in the active energ3 This task will continued, and it is to have been pregnant of good results the even the small proportion of 1-2,500 of be effects of war airmen in fields shroad hear witness Faded. so successful has been the work carried out in these wind run- nel at a new cm, with inside dimen

sions of aw existing tunnel here) is now being constructed, wherein the work can obviously be conducted under conditions which more nearly approach those gojerp

ag practical ying.

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scientific

may

mide. It is 205 surprising, therefore, to ing the war hundreds of papers have been

The records submitted by the YMCA, Division and the Queen's College Division, respectively,

only

slightly inferior to that of Baiying-

pun and show that these two Divi sions also have done very commend.

Tuview.

SHIPS IN FOG.

hoped that every Brin

rin which finds itself NEW INVENTION TO WARN THEM radium bromide to zine sulphide that exconfronted with a problem which does not,

OF DANGER. rise has shown that it completely die with its more or less limited means, ap nt rates the latter within a very few pear easy of solution, will invite the co nuntis. The dinis of the luminous com- operation of the National Physics

Hitherto, Teddington by mins of a simple appa

When Mr. Godfrey Isaacs presided over the anual festing of the Marconi Inter

sions of 14ft. by Tit. (double the dimer passes, etc., werk ali tested and graded at LaboraLobiety the larger and better national. Marine Communication Com-

ratas designed for that purpose, and this equipped firms firms possessing highly undoubtedly, is a phase of work which trained technical staffs of their own and the laboratory must continue. The stand in position to command the highest professional advice-have been the rend It is a reminder of what has been, andards of radim are to be interantionalisest to ask the assistance of the men of i and it is our great laboratory which the laboratory. Other firms have needs for the future, to learn that in similar will adertake this work -- tunnels to-day a most interesting and in

of the necessity felt for making provisios

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on the

Prestant.

of the pro

pany, held in London recently, he men toned a new invention to Ianest ships during fog.

They thought it probable, he said, that an additional source of revenue to the. company would arise from the morn materially improved that it eral use on board ships of the direction

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which had now been so very Asher part in the war in other e fede ingyen ly resemne to help them, As was only to be expected, the X-rays quite as great, and, perhaps, in the data

come they will that

gave promise structive series of experiments is being

of proving of considerable value to navi- gatory.

they domain made in connection with questions dent regions than the purely surgical and though only if such can be done with

To even a greater extent medical. Quite an important use has brea out

invention Americans know thought the latest

of ing with velocity and the flight of bullet made of them in respect of such matters fessional

Senator Marconi would be adopted on board ships. Of course, the tunnels fulfil very much as the examination of shells, the examira the value of this aid, and try always to

This new discovery said Mr. Isuncs, the same function in the elucidation of tinn hl the composition of metals. parti take full advantage of its benefits, in the nir problems as does the famous Frondtcularly steels, and the results of all this fallo

provides a meas whereby ships in the llowing little incident shows. To the superintendent of one of the densest og may discern the approach of experimrat tunk in another building in work have been such that, when used in To

of the laboratory

another ship, provided that that ship be onestions regarding craft on and under junction with microscopical. methode great departments

there came last summer the very impor also fitted with this apparatus, and at the water. In the latter great water win it has a length of 350ft. a width and other means; it is now possible to as

certain that reason for any faults which tant technical expert of one of the big the same time giving an approximate iden

American

sler corporations.

He was a

of the distance of the approaching ship. of 30ft, anil à depih in the middle of 19't.

by this We have mar occur in special 'manufactures. All

companied by a person, whose

great hopes Sin. Ir, G. S. Baker, the superintent, knowledge is now, or shortly will be.

means all risk of collision at sea during has curried out so much work and co-available for the service of the indufrynce he accounted for hn. follows:

This will be a

the thickest fogs will be eliminated. to a very important

Every ship would operated in so much that it is imposible here even te enumerate the various things of the country. itself an immense step versation, doctor, and so that I can have

have to carry the forward towards the ideal of certain

complete record of what you tell me which have been done. The shape of all cientific production which will be' vital|I

that to"reason have brought along my stenographer."

if a great liner were fitted Now, not even to our Allies do we talk

and a small trap were not, the danger tandard ships, contained in Clames C to

to us in the future.

against a notebook, we the docte other, or both,

of collision and the loss of one or the Nwas virtually Shally resolved upon as

"He

of the ships might result. the result of the model work in this tank. In the weird world of "wireless" some is a kind man, merely said gently,

this Inasmuch of disposing of a danger new device should Whatever the merits or demerit of these remarkable results have been obtained. will find it very pleasant in the garden." standard ships, the fact remal that the Here Mr. F. E. Smith, F.LS., workink And. in spite of the American gentle provide means laboratory work increased their afficiency in conjunction with others of the elever man's protest, it was the garden for the misty and foggy weather, it is not un very considerably resistance, in one scientists who laboured for the Govern- stenographer. But English people need likely, we think, that every ship which design. being pulled down 13 per cent, meat, bas acceeded in developing direc-not fear that they will only be shown goes to sea, will eventually be fitted with,

this new installation, very satisfactory saving

tional wireless, so that wher, as must be, the garden

WIRELESS RESEARCH.

which end, of copparatus, for it stands