Two machines have been installed in a London hospital with the object of testing the value of wireless waves in the treatment of disease.
An American investigator, with the assistance of a British scientist and an engineer, proposes shortly to make an attempt to set up a new stratosphere altitude record by rising to a height of some 90,000ft. Professor Piccard’s record was recently beaten by two Americans, who ascended to an altitude of eleven miles.
The world’s champion parachutist hopes to make a parachute descent from the “stratosphere balloon” when it reaches its greated altitude.
The Southern Railway propose to construct a new loopline between Folkestone and Dover. To do this they propose to bore a tunnel four miles long below Dover Hill, Folkestone, to a point near Shakespeare Cliff, Dover.
Over ninety miles of tramway track in various parts of London are soon to be superseded by up-to-date trolley buses capable of carrying a larger number of passengers than the tram. Track vehicles on open roads should have been abolished years ago.
A new television scanning device, which combines a cathode-ray tube and a multiple selenium cell has recently been designed by an American scientist. The multiple cell takes the place of the normal fluorescent screen an is “scanned” by the ray in the normal manner.
The LMS Railways “Royal Scot” has recently returned from a tour of 11,194 miles in Canada and USA. During the tour the locomotive was inspected by 3,021,601 sightseers.
A spring-operated clock has lately been placed on the market which is perfectly noiseless in operation (it cannot be heard even when placed close to the ear) due to the use of a new type of escapement. The clock can also be obtained fitted with a bell alarm.
A loud-speaker is now being made which is fitted with an electric clock. The clock replaces the usual fret and can be obtained in either sychronous (AC mains) or battery types.
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