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In a paper presented, to a joint Nanking, Jan. 10.-The 1033 more pretentious entourage, and is meeting of members of Engineer. building programme of Nanking is so located that nothing will obsing Institute at Manchester, Mr. to start with the new office build- 'truct the view of the building | GH, Davy and Mr. O. B. Sparks ing of the Ministry of Foreign from any angle. Affairs, the construction work of which was started on January 1.1. Will be Fireproof. and is scheduled "to be completa

The structure will be of rein- before the end of this year. The forced concrete, to be absolutely contract has been awarded to Kwaung Yue Kes & Sons, general fireproof. The exterior walls will contractors of Shanghai. The to-be furred with hollow tile, and

It can be said, say the authors, partitions and floors are to be of tal cost of the building will be the same materials, 80, as to make that all séccessful high-pressur? all the rooms absolutely sound-boilers have been of tubular form- proof.

that is to say, the tubes bave been an enormous boon to the town and used as the heat-transmitting sur- there is not the slightest doubt main faces, being, therefore, subject to that as soon as the gas works have comes into operation, a national the most arduous conditions: Yet, been completed the demand will power scheme will be placed at the despite the fact that the duty reprobably exceed the expectations command of a railway for the first quired of a boiler tube throughout of the organisers of the new com time in history. the greater part of the world is pany. There is probably not a very much the same, an inspection single house in the town which will

'Harbin, Jan. 17-At length ther.) seems to be a possible chance of having gás in Harbin, as it is an-" nounced that representatives of the

London, Dec. 26-On New Year's largest gas companies in Tokyo Day an electric train will move and Osaka are due to arrive here

out of · Victoria bound for within a few days. For years the, Brighton. Behind that one train question of introducing gas into will move the whole electric re- Sources of Great Britain. Thà there has never been anything du train canunt break down. to start such a venture which is

If one, two, or more of the sta Burvoyed post-war developmenta in very necessary. The contant cut- high-pressure boilers. In the course ting of trees throughout Northern tions supplying it with electricity should fail more are waiting to of paper which collect much Manchuria for firewood has caus valuable data the authors discussed ed the price to rise very rapidly take up the burden, north, souts, the codes, in force governing the and owing to circumstances which cast, or west, until the Inken at have arisen during the past year Scotland may perhaps be the re- thickness of boiler tubes.

coals have also gone up consider mote origin of the power which. ably in price.

bears the traveller on his fifty-mil»

$600,000.

Ever since Nanking was made the national capital, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has long left the need of a modern office build: ing to house the entire staff of the ministry. In the early part of 1031, Mr. Shen Chao, prominent architect, was called upon to de sign a combined office: and recep- tion building. At that time the scheme was approved, but aban doned temporarily on account of the building cost being considered too high. In the latter part of the same year, it was decided to build the office building first. Al- though the plans have been. com pleted, the work was again hold up on account of the Shangha hostilities. e

The exterior will be finished in Boochow granite and face brick and growned with a cornice course in glazed terra cotta Deck roof will be used throughout. The building will be four stories in height:

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Approaching through an elevated porte-cochere, one will enter the spacious, elevator lobby embellished with marble and a decorative ceil- ing in polychrome ornament. The grant staircase, in the centre, to gether with the pair of elevators will solve the problem of vertical; traffic. The location of all the office rooms has been carefully stu died, to ensure the best efficiency in carrying out the work of the Lo Won-kan Okehä Plan.

ministry. Except the consultation room And the minister's suite. In August 1932, Mr. Chao was asked to restudy the plans, to which will be richly decorated, all embody a spacious reception and the other rooms will be finished in banquet hall for public function, a most simple fashion; but so de- an archive and a library, beside signed as to give excellent light The ground, the usual staff office rooms: The and ventilation, sketch plans were finally approved first and second floors are devoted by Minister Lo Wen Kan. Detail-entirely to offices, whereas the en ed plans were completed at the end tire third floor is assigned to the of November.

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Thus when the Bouthern Railway line electrification scheme

The battery-driven locomotives

of the various boiler laws regulat- not be anxious to have a gustatove which are in frequent use on other ing boiler tube thicknessea in vain the kitchen and gas heating in long distance electric lines will be rious parts of the world discloses the rooms instead of the present unknown in England. The fart a considerable lack of uniformity bulky Russian stoves, while in that breakdowns which mar even in requirements. There are comthose houses where steam or hot the famous Chicago North-Western derable differences in the methods water heating has already been in line service cannot occur on the used for feed water treatment, troduced, a gas stove in the kit Brighton line will render battery- which must indirectly exercise a chen will be much cleaner and wilt driven locomotives unnecessary. considerable bearing on the ques in many cases do away with the The practical perfection of elec which English tion of tube thickness, and it is necessity of engaging servants. tric transport,

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brains and English labour alone attention has been paid to the sub-

has brought about, would nover fect of feed treatment than in

have been possible had it not been others. It is probable that the ad

for the foresight of those concern. ed with the National Grid-scheme. vance in methods of feed treatment

The Southern^ area of the Grid was planned long ago to meet th possibility of railway electrifica- ion in the district, and this wil be the first spectacular test of ita powers, and dre

notable that in some countries more

ILLUMINATED HAND MAGNIFIERS

had some considerable bearing on the adoption of thinner tubes, of which the Boiler Code of the American Society of Mechanical LONDON FIRM'S INVENTION Engineers is an instance. This tode has been legally adopted as a regulation in the greater number) of the United States,

and

A World Wonder, All users of high-power handl magnifiers will appreciate the diffi

Mazes of metal and climbing The authors have plotted curves culty that usually exists in pro cables will be the first origins of. showing the thickness of boiler viding sufficient illumination on

at the three elaborate examination, power tube of 34 inches outside diameter the object under

Three Bridges, pressures ranging up to Messrs. R. and J. Beck, Limited, 132,000 volt switching stations a for

Brighton. 1,400lb, per square inch, as speci-09, Mortimer-street, London, Wt. Croydon, fied by the British Board of Trade appear, however, to have got over

These power stations, like the Regulations for marine purposes, this difficulty, in an ingenious and which demand the greatest thick convenient manner, in the Luminox whole of the electrification of the most of the public functions willness, the Indian Boiler Regulu Dagnifiers they are now putting line, are British from start to take place. The library and stack tions, the Australian Boiler Code, on the market. In these the lens finish. In design they are wholly now and intended for a new, par rooms will be located above the re- and the latest German Boiler Reis mounted at the upper end of a

During their construction. ception hall.

gulations, together with a curve specially shaped reflector into th: poso.

tube side of which a small electric torch they have been objects of interess showing the thickness of adopted in many cases for land is fitted, the light from the torch and marvel to engineers of all na- work by boilermakers in this coun- being concentrated and directed by tions, who have docked from across the reflector so that it brightly | the "world to watch their bulk in try. With pressures above 1,000lb

growth.

Old Buildings to be Torn Down, The new structure promises to bo the latest in governmental A spacious reception lobby is building design. Whereas it will provided at the opposite end of be essentially characteristic in, the building, giving access to the Chinese architecture, it is adopted grand reception hall, finished in for utilitarian purposes and mo- gorgeous colours. This is where dern requirements. No superfluous ornament, nor undersired features will tend to weaken the simple dignity of the struture. The build ing is placed to face the Drum. Tower for better exposure

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The volume as it now stands a new text, containing much valu! able theory which is not to be found any other textbook. O! particular utility to the student are the chapters on energy dia- grams for steam, engine cycles and efficiencies ranging from the Car not cycle to the binary vapour cycle energy conversion in turbine nozzles and binding condition curves, reheat factor, and efficien cies, heat consumption rates, etc. The extended text, je divided into | 24: chapters, which, in addition to the subjects mentioned include chapters on valves and valve gears, governors, « crank effort and twist

per square inch the curve of land illuminates the surface or object practice approaches the American visible through the lens. The illu Each station is itself linked witzi. code, but both the Indian and Germinating torch, it should noted, is man boiler regulations diverge standard article which can the northern area of the scheme from the American standard as readily be replaced anywhere, and Each is linked by mighty cables the pressure increases, formulating the whole magnifier, we under with Swanscombe in Kent, Barking substantially greater thickness at stand, is designed to withstand in Essex, Working in Surrey, and constant hard wear such as it. Uxbridge in Middlesex. Should pressures approaching 1,400lb. per would be subjected to in a work powerfall at Battersea it will square inch

shop. It is made with fixed on ad- sweep in from Barking, and the justable focus, and can be fitted tired business maa will never know `zio ang empat of humans with different forms of graduated the difference. ing moment, balancing, Corliss and

scales for measurements. Another drop valve engines, marine engines,

Or should the localised scheme including auch developments as the form is fitted with a compound break down, there are stations Bauer-Wach system, locomotives, microscope having a magnifying steam engine and turbine-perform- ARCOL ISANG

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And, perhaps, he will think ot grams. The volume should be of tents. Other forms are availabis outstanding value to students and for examining kinematograph the dislocation and suffocation that The need to endure when there was

also to engineers, concerned with films and for counting the threads he used to the everyday work of the design.

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