1950-10-14 — Page 12

Models

ZAGROPLE

SZUNKNOW

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER - 14, 1950,

OF COMMONS CHAMBER

Important Role

In Work Of Scientists

By Trevor Williams

ODEL-MAKING as a

-cf several possible forms of the molecular architecture is most probable; when the mola

at o sub- The influence of this model cular architecture

dig- been Iaboratory on the dance has anally popular hobby has frating

world's shipping In enormous, covered the scale model often greatest suggests the existence of pro- followers; for

Britain-the much less generally known chipbuilding nation, of all-very perties which had not previous-

are bullt ly been suspected. is that it plays an impor- few merchant ships tant role in many different without their design being first

many

in

of

For

the is of Model-making

many kinds of scientific research tested in the tank at the Na- greatest importance in

ilonal

ether fields of research. Physical Laboratory. 01- Another Department

example, at a new laboratory Chemists, physicists.

Re- being bull by the Department other Scientifle and Industrini many gineers, and

example of

of Selentine and Industrial Re- search model-an

on the rearch

Thames for experts make extensive usO

fine workmanship-illustrates of models in their work.

interesting research. Initinted in hydraulles research, models will and measure be of primary importance. In a The importance of models 1010, to detect

em movements suspected to be oc- 250 foot long tank, in which is to the scientist

that surring in the Tower of Lon waves can be created at will, of London's most problems of coastal erosion will phasised by the fact

historic buildings

be studied. A 350 feet channel,

rless, one

this year, for the first time, famous

the Model Engineers' Ex Micrometers which have been 12 feet wide, will be used to the engineering study problems in controlling hibition in London an installed by

division of the National Phyl- the flow of rivers.

mual

of

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cal Laboratory show that the Other models will include a quay wall at the Tower, a man- detailed dive stone structure which in

scale-model of

the

Estuary, with the help

of ex- places in a hundred yards thick. Foich problems of silling. |

eagerly awaited

thousands event for amateur enthusiasts

number calcel

submitted Government laboratories to ilustrate the part which models play in research.

hibits

by is gradually moving away from

the Thames.

Recording Instruments within the bull show the forces acting different condi- on it under tions. For example, waves can be produced to simulate natural conditions at sen.

WIND-TUNNEL

From

atlied

the some

Measures

of

VENTURE

an exact model of the system of vessels,

im-

015

NEW HOUSE

This drawing of the new House of Commons Chamber Dennis Flanders and published recently in the Daily Telegraph. The new House is to be opened by His Majesty the King on October 26.

was made by

Roosevelt in Retrospect

OOSEVELT was a man greatest vole-getter in Ameri- velt did.

emer-

Yet,

YOUR

A JOLT TO

MEMORY

FIFTY-SEVEN

years suffered by the refugees who-

dragged their way in corts nnd vans

cr on foat from East

1G of

ago, a boy watched seagulla circling Prussia will the Russians

in the wintry sky above hammering at their heels, London Bridge and wrote n

It has caught, too, the bleak little essay about it. The hopelessness of thaso who Daily Chronicle published survived to live in the cellars of the essay.

Berlin when the war ended.

Children died in the snow, Since then, the author women idled themselves,, men Philip Gibbs, has made a lost their

2

reason

in

the trek to what

It is

world reputation A3 nagonisingly slow journalist, and has publish. they hoped was safety.

ed 56 books. Today, at the important to be reminded that age of 73, he publishes his such things come from war,

for book is important. 57th. "THINE ENEMY”・ Tho

another reason, Twice in our (Hutchinson, 10. Gd.).

lifetime the pearo of the worki Anony the titles of his earlier has been broken by Germany. books are "Out of the Ruins," "Cross of Peace," "Cities of and Refuge," "Battle Within,"

"Through the Storm." Any

BOOK OF THE DAT

by J.P.W. Mallallen,

ог

211

of

uties these would tit

This Enemy.

which builds

MA.P.

0

of

It is vital to us that Germany should not again be a source from which such horror springs.

The Corman mind

DHILIP GIBBS tries to reveal. p

German minds as they re for

novel out today-those which work the crash revenge, those which work for

which

o f Hitler's atorment, and those out of the barely work at all. Germany, and twilight life among the ruins,

Maybe this determination to "Thine interpret sometimes lessens the I do not think that Enemy" is a great book. The drama of the reporting. But it

the. which story moves quickly and is held heightens our sense of the pre- together neatly. · But some of cipitous dangers

present rulern of Germany look the characters seem wooden, as

them over today. though their author sw

an convenient dummies, aspects of illustrating various his theme.

R3 we have only

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For example:-

"She caught her breath for a moment as though a soh had risen to

ber throat, but then spoke again quietly.

and

will dredging

be studied. Alrendy there are in London, housed in a shed the Royal Victoria Docks, de- scale models of the

niels of division

failed

constructed to model of the super Thames Estuary, A striking exhibit is provided comes a by the Ship Division of Br cenic wind tunnel which played artist the work of the Port of waruma London Authority. Yet another Severn is of the speeds model toin's Department of Scicate an important part in

on fight at and Industrial Research. In research

which greater than that of sound. In Estuary; it will help in the de

proposed Severn the great testing tanke was built at the National Phy- this wind-tunnel-the only one firm of the

at Tedding of its kind avaliable to any of hurrage. sleal Laboratory

the nations for 1000, the in ton, in Middlesex,

desigas entre part of the war-scale reale models of new

their models of German V-2 rackets,

In the teaching of science, can be towed along for performance to be determined, constructed to secretly collected

data, were tested before e sin els are of increasin INFLUENCE

gle one was actually launched portance. For example, medi- The Informacal research workers have de- study of these yeloped a new technique where- against Britain. tion gained by a

Rof his times, and what can history. Thirty-one out of pointed out, he wa Liberal; he an important by a liquid plastie is injected. models played

Into hollow cavities, mich those formed by the complex times they were!-chaotic, the four times he rat. His in beneved in free enterprise and

far from having the profit system. Blood vessels and air spaces in catastrophic, revolutionary, fluence. art in the defence

The liquid then seta

1 is not beyond the bounds taken against them.

The Aerodynamics Division the lungs. These tests

30 or probably increased.

of possibility that whole during the greatest enable modifications to be made has another wind-tunnel; in this

his years from now the country will the history of When Mr Truman won

further to improve the efficiency and model aeroplanes can be tested to a hard, rubbery solid giving epochal-he was President diminished since his death, hag

gency in

In 1948, have swung so much victory and he never let surprising

"You've been through worse mankind,

which was made possible in left that whint F.D.R. stood Lor

of as almost things. They've been an outrage mankind -

part by the politient Influence will be thought

Lenctionary.

to your former censibilities, You love beauty as an artist and you left behind by F.DR.. It was altogether fitting that a London

ugllness and Also Roosevell's career nice.

only have scen From the Chemical Research

beastliness. One day you will newspaper should head its story ly disproves nn essential

stituent of Marxism. Laboratory is submitted a new

All that will get back again.

mind. They "Roosevelt's Fifth Term." form of the models by, which

the

Tade from your principle of class war: His chemists are accustomed, as an

Mrs Roosevelt has said that entire life refutes the Marxist

were not your fault. You were course of in the whole

his important aid to their research,

thesis. He was a rich man and

the helpless instrument of evil career there was never any de- to reproduce, on an enormously

an aristocrat; but he did more

powers. ob- 00- magnified scale, the Bonge

But he took history in viation from his original

for the underpossessed than any beiter make life ments of the individual atoms

American who ever lived.

Does anyone ever for the averago man,

that? characteristic of the hundreds

enough, and gallantry of thousands of different sub- scientifle purposes calls for his stride; he had vision Jective-io and child." the work of ctances which they study. Some high precision and provides

new outlet for

are oomph and zip und de- of the utmost sober conserva- ex skilled crationen. Models models of this kind are tremely detailed, and show even Lecoming so widely demanded tonair benevolence enough tim say that they think F.D.R.

that their con-to foresee the supreme saved the country from the distribution of the electrons by scientists

atomie struction is all -the smallest of

creating a small but!

crises of our cra, overcome revolution in 1932. important new craft,

nation particles.

specialised as some of the an-them, and lead the cient crafts which, by its con-out of the worst dangers it stant provision of new methods has ever faced.

Roosevelt was of mass production, the applica- lion of science to daily life has;

political carnpaigner

economy of the final vessel.

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

At

"Please, darling, forget my anti-clippie sttitude in the strike--will you marry me?"

under strictly controlled condi- tions, so that the force which Let on them under different flv-

Int conditions enn be precisely in scientiße model-making history

casured.

PROPERTIES

These models serve a double purpose. On the one hand they are useful in the early stages

10 -

venture Another interesting cently started in Britain is the manufacture of complete model down.

keletons made in plastic; these

because of the His very defects reflected are needed

the unprecedented strains great shortage and high of

natural material. Museums of all kinds make ex-and stresses of the decades

de- he lived in. tensive use of models for monstration purperes.

the

The making of most models

c research to Indicate which siowly destroyed,

B

a

woman,

I have heard men

overt

He created the pattern of the

made it function. To be a re- modern democratic State, and former alone is not enough. A reformer must make reform ef- the fective. This certainly

the greatest

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

'700

BAD!"

# THE BANES CAN'T COME AND THE JONES'S WILL

HAVE TO GO ON THROUGH... CAN'T

STOP OVER!

and

Roose

D

=

#

*

From "Roosevelt

con- nomely.

in Retros- pect," published by Hamish Hamilton. It is the newest book by John Gunther, sets

talk like

The refugees

or

out with characteristle fair BUT, eat

Enemy" is important. The

not, "Thine packs into 412 pages all that

which could calch the could reasonably be gathered pen

and beauty of circling gulis half a about the personal life work of Roosevelt. Immense-century ago today has caught ly readable.

the mental and physical horror

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A National Trust 104 pages. Cuide to some of the best land.

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IN "THE

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WHEN, DAUGHTER__ GETS HOME WITH A NEW COLLECTION OF MEN... PICTORIAL...

AND BEGINS TO REST UP FROM HER REST

AT THE SHORE.

STARTE

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AND IT LET

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A

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