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THE WAR ON MALARIA.
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FRENCH SCIENTISTS NEW METHOD.
Some further details have been In connection with the mining‡'An article on colour printing
from the Pastour Industry, the seven hours day which appears in the Teas obtained was inaugurated on July 16, 1919, Engineering Supplement for July | Institute of the method, recently annonroed by M. Rooband, of says writer in the Scotsmen. | saya ven
Remarkable progress was made destroying the malarial mosquito The pits of the country bars, therefore, been run for a year on in the manufacture of colour-by sprinkling the water whare it the sensitive plates during the war. breeds with powdered formaline. short day. and
M. Ronbaod points out that his for Two reasons were responsible for time
opportune comparing the facts bearing this. One was the research work method is only intended for the from carried out by Sir William Pope destruction of the Anopheles gained output experience with the theories sub-at Cambridge on the particular mosquito, the most dangerous of
the species. because mitted at the Coal Commission | class of dyea used for the purpose, all
the
on
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DECREASING OUTPUT AND INCREASING NUMBER OF
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necessary for getting Their nourishment consists of tiny THE OPENING SEASON
by Mr.. Justice Santer and the and the other was the demand transmits the garms of malaria for a highly red sensitive plate in a way peculiar to it alone. miners' leaders.
for aeroplane photography, this The larvae of this species' feed on surface of the water. quality of red sensitiveness being the found distinct results in bary weather. } floating particles, which the larva Three-colour printing is now draw_automatically into their In his final report, issued an reaping the benent of this work mouths by producing microscopic June 20, 1919. Mr. Justice Sankey The exposures for the pink and whirlpools by the aid of a special
make this said:-"I
report blue printer" in process work organ. Sprinkled on the surface because I believe that the workers
haveindeed comedown enormous joi at present employed can and will
powder is swallowed maintain an output of 250,000,000 in duration, and the operator form an imperceptible deposit,
is getting the full benefit of this. the tons a year at least, which wasew types of fine-grained plates, by the larva, which, being minute themselves, are the figure adopted in the interim colour-sensitised, have also made so
report.
la go
the water SO
A
to
I rely upon the their appearance; whereby the poisoned by the infinitely small Donour of the men's leaders, and half-tone negative can be made cantity of farmol given off by of the men, and of all others con-direct instead of the original being the powder.
The quantities of powdered cerned to achieve this result arst photographed on the colour-
the formaline used-25 to 30 centi- the output per man continues
sensitive plate through down. the supremacy of this country is in danger primary filter, and a print from grammes being sufficient for one the negative re-photographed or a square metre of water-are so process plate through the half-small that other organisms in the water are unharmed. Thus the water can be used for cattle, irrigation, laundry work, and the keeping of fish without any ill
The
basput per
year
man
has
Tone screen.
COLOURED CINEMA PICTURES.
trad its
results.
WIRELESS TELEPHONY,
ITS USE IN NEWS- GATHERING.
gone down with a vengeance since Mr. Justice Sankey penned The these words of warning. persons employed in and about
The research work that has the mines in 1919 increased be yond expectations, and yet the been carried out with color- output was only 229.743,128 tons sensitising dyes has -roughly, 2014 million tons short effect on colour cinematography. of the Sankey anticipations, andļand of one new process at least a a greater shortage of the total good deal is likely to be heard, than many coal consumers, who and seen, before long. It is a based their estimates on the re-two-colour process, in which the marks of the miners' leaders previous difficulty of the registra. at the Coal Commission, bad tios of the two images on the ont-screen has been overcome and expected. Roughly, the
The powers of wireless telep- the io:
of the the natural colour rendering is
phony and its adaptability in put seven hours day, just closed, is little short of perfection. |227,000,000 tons. The Govern Whether or not this process is connection with the speedy trans- monstrated in Glasgow by the ment returns base from time im the one cox being adopted in mission of news are being de- memoral been made up for the America is uncertain, but a drama'
Marconi Company in co-operation calendar year, and it is therefore is being prepared in natural
with the Exchange Telegraph impossible to give Statistics bear-jcolants throughout the first of its ing on the corresponding months kind-which will mark a new era Compans. The requisite appar- far as year. It may be interest in motion picture photograpy. Itatus bas been installed in the ing to state, however, that the may be taken for granted that attic of a house in India Stree:. output for the war year 1915 was the results, as regards the faith, and a technical assistant placed 253,209,081 tons, while the per- fulness" of colour repoinction. in charge of the arrangements. soas employed only numbered achieve a high degree of exceli-Ì 955,543. For the year ending eacé, as ordinary cinematographyed are easily and quickly fitted July 16th les: the number of per- has reached a stage of develop, and the manipulation of the sons employed, ranged between men at which imperfer: estuarinstallation is simplicity itself.
The rendering would scarcely bej 1.113,000 and 1,200.300.
by tolerated. issned returns reekly the Government show that things have no: improved in recent months, and the weekly returns were confirmed by Mri Bridgersan in the House of Con mons on Monday. Replying to Captain Bowyer. Mr Bridzeinan rated that there were 1.188.50
CYLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS IN
NEWSPAPER
appear
in
The set of instruments employ-
Communication is being daily! Established with the Marcani station at Chelmsford. Essex. and, over a distance of 450 miles,) news messages come clearly and distinctly to the ear, and voice of
It is fairly sah to look forward the sender sounding as it were
the day when natural estzari etose at hand.
will
The difficulties experienced on! photographs
Dace Periodicals and newspapers. They the ordinary telephone are cons ¡ persons employed in and about rotazy photogravure method of picuous by their absence. the raines in the quarter ending reproduction, suited to high speed connection is established and March 31st last, and the output printing, has been developed to sound rugniñed to a degree which was 62.195.000 tons, while for the such an extent that ence "-nap - easily audible, messages can quarter ending June 30th the shot" photographs by the threes i he taken down with facility and output was 38.169,000 tons, with colour process can be taken without any strain to the sense exceiten: work has of bearing. The buzzing noises 1,900,500 persons employed. Mr and some Bridgeman's gores show that heen already done in this direc-which are such a disturbing fea- there was an increase of 11,800 1-it is not a far step to reprosture of the ordinary telephone and persons employed for the Juneducing them by photogravure in at times render almos: inaudible the voice of a speaker are prac quarter, and yet there was a falla newspaper.
The technical quality of natural tically eliminated. Clear ecun- This is a very serious condition colour photographs printed by ciation and the faculty of pitch- of things. It is serious for the rotary photogravure has been ing the voice in a proper key art, country. which is in need of proved experimentally to the jf course, essential. more coal: it is serious for the satisfaction of experts, but a good industry, which is being burdened deal remains to be done in spend.
an increased wages billing up the work of preparation. through the employment of extra
in the output of 3,934,000 toas.
with
operatives and a decreasing out- put. It is understood that the
QUICK AND RELIABLE. The demonstrations
are such
as to impose a strict test on the feasibility of wireless telephony for quick a reliable transmis-
hallot on the fire-day week policy total the cost of raising coal sion of news. They prove that
THE EXCESS PROFITS FROM
EXPORTS.
the invention is particularly adaptable in the case of long- distance calls, and that it holds out great possibilites.
B
storom
in Scotland showed a majority of to the surface. miners who voted in favour of about 1 per cent. Since the Leamington Conference, at which
It is claimed that while dis- a five days' policy resolation was! Sir Robert pointed out tha:| set aside on the ground of the Exports had been much reduced turbed atmospheric conditions ground of the needs of the country. but admitted that there would be would have some effect, as in the nothing has been heard of the balance on the right side. This case of the ordinary telephone, Scottish mine workers' ballot. 1: balance would go to the Ex- they would not prove a serious is to be hoped that the propssl has chequer, now that the inland factor unless the sound waves do directly been permanently dropped, and trade had been placed on an encounter will be followed up by a recom-economic basis. Every important overhead.
The primary object of the mendation to the Lanarkshire industry, he explained, was con- miners to fall into line with their tributing large sums to the Exdemonstrations is to prove that Fife, Lothian, Stirling, and chequer in the shape of Excess in wireless telephony, the Press Ayrshire brethren by working Profis Daty; and it was only as an invaluable mediom of eleven days a fortnight.
fair that the "surplus which securing the rapid and direct come to the State on export transmission of news from wide THE COST OF PRODUCING COAL sales of coal should go to spart and distant centres.
is
question of In an interview with the re- the public pure. The miners' There
are demanding that superseding the ordinary tele presentative of
London leaders newspaper, Sir Robert Horne, the the surplus should be divided phone for public use. Emphasia President of the Board of Trade, between them and the coal con-is laid on the fact that from '8 had a good deal to say about the sumer. By the Coal Emergency telephonic point of view the prac COBS of producing coal and Act coalowners are practically tical application of the invention the inland selling prices. He restricted to their pre-war profits, to newspapaper purposes would stated that before the recent rise and therefore do not come under conduce to a more efficient news in loland prices the pithead price the Excess Profile Duty of Duty service, and keep the Preas in of domestic coal was 19s. 1d. per of 60 per cent to be enforced closest touch with the world's While the initial expense off ton. An increase of 145. 2d. a ton under the new Budget If the affairs. had been made, bringing the rate minors' leaders were to get their up to 33%. 38. At the time the way coal industry would be installation would be a considera- pithead price was 198. 1d. per contributing nothing to the Ex-tion, it is pointed out that com- too cost of raising the coal to the chequer st time when millions pensation would soon be found surface was 30s. 5d. The recent are needed. On the average in an improved news service,
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