New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1928, Page 21

1* (8] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928. |liquid, transportation becomes | ‘a HIGHWAY MAPPED LIQUID OXYGEN 1§ FOR APLANE HEV West Coust Has New Routes Charted Ont Cambridge, Mass.. Oct. 2 (M There is now a “main street” of the air in the United States, with the aerial equivalent to stop, go and cautlon signale aud of tratfie lane markings. | _ This “piain street” is in Californ- ia between San Francisco and Los Angelea. It was established last May by the Danicl Guggenheim und for the Promotion of gero- hautics and is operated jointly by he Fynd and the Uniicd Stat veather burcau, with army and na ¥ and telephone company coopera- ion. Tt is an experimental meteoro- oglcal airway, receiving from 38 iations, in an area 400 miles long nd 150 miles wide. reports each \our gnd a half from 6:30 a. m. to #:30 p. m. The stations furnish information on winds, clouds. fog. visibility and \-‘,ul!ler. which are flashed by wire o0 airports and to such planes as 1ave radio. Several regular air ‘mes and numbers of individual Manes use the service. Maj. E. H. dowie, in charge of the San Fran- visco weather bureau, directs the “rvice and acts for the Guggen- heim Fund. One of the scientists who spent the summer in organiz- ing the work is Dr. C. G. Rosshy, of Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- ‘¥, who describes some of the re. sults, Oue of the regions corresponding ‘2 an arterial ground highway con- ol is the girway between 100 miles orth of Los Angeles, 'nd_elevation is about 4,000 feet. irre morthbound planes often meet west. Several of the regular planes using the airway, Dr. Rossby saya, have an cstimated flying expense of from §1 to $2 a minute. By chart- | ing the air strata the weather serv- |ice estimates that a saving is pro- | duced for such planes of an average b {minimum of 19 minutes each, when | tiving agninst untavorabie conat | NOW Mofhod Provides Transpor- tions. | Much of this work has been done i m’ {by the station at Lebec, Cal., send- u“‘w !ing up test balloons. Their rec- — ords indicate a tendency fo morn- * M—Osy: ing calms in the first 2,000 feet| Berlin. Oct 2 d ‘"Tn u:e: 4 above the station, with wind aboye | "i&hly compremsed form in indus- [that stratum. This wind haa been |!Fial undertakinm-can vow be do- {more from the northwest than from |IVerd In LEht Depm conancEs fe any other direction. Occasionall i Shome tho northwani wind b Senit iramaed and vequisny is mes-ie | weat wind has been recarded. FART When nigh clouds overspread | Dr. Paul Heglandt, Rerlin chem- wide areas, it has been possible to |8t and inventor, has discovered a stop planes before they reached the |Proccss by which gas can be man. impenetrable section. In one in. ufacturcd and delivered in liquid stance such a cloud area covered 100 form. {miles of the airway, with &ood safc |Bim the honorary legree of doctor flying visibility benvath, hut with no [of engineering from the Charlotten- apparent way to get into this vast |burg Institue of Technology here. cloud tent. nor out of it. Seversl gir- | The oxygen gas is reduced to a Becayes of |ligwid by Dr. Heylandt's process, is {their numbers, the meteorological |then poured inte speciaily devised |stations, were abie to spot the only containers on gutomobile trucks, “hole” in this cloud tent, and flying 8nd is carted frem plant to plant | ports lay beneath it. His invention has won for | |procoeded as usual. The summer’s observations have fixed an interesting characteristic of ocean fogs, which may be called their liquid nature, The Pacific fogs iroll inland wwch as 1 tidal wave | might, turning valieys into vast bays, {running over comparatively low lands, but stopping like water when |they reach high clevations. A different type of fog is expected [to receive study this winter, when it occurs more frequently than in summer. It is called radiation fog land does not come from the mea. {The San Joaguin valley. which liex in.an immense elongated bowl be- neath the airways, is one of the lo |much as gasoline er oil is deliyered. { The needn of the customers are sup plied by merely opening a faucet and letting the desired guantity run |into the small containers supplied to each customer. { At a nominal rental the customer is also supplied withyapparatus for converting the liquid “oxygen into compressed gas, which is then stored in the steel bottles that were hither- to teansported back and forth. “These steel bottles weigh 75 Kkilo- grams and contain only 8 kilograms of oxygen gas.” Dr. Heglandt says. “That, of course, is a tremendous |ecconemic waste, especially when you consider that on the return trip one must pay freight on 75 kilograms o where the | jcatlons for study of radiation {08 |.ppty containers. We find that for | distances beyond 65 miles the They lead the field—Herald Classi- | (reight amounts to more fled Ads. | price of the gas. Jifty-seven *Vears —Continuous Service PROGRESS The modern printing service is as unlike the old as the old and new differ in commerce, warfare, farming, transpor- than the, | negligible factor. This means that | 20 to 50 per cont of the cost is elim- | inated. Also, far less personnel is re- | quired te handle it. It takes four I |strong wmen to carry two steel bot- Itles together containing 16 kilo- | |grams of compreased oxygen gas. It |takes but one boy to carry the same | quantity in liquid form.” | A number of large industria | firms, among them the German Dy¢ Trust and the General Electric con |pany. already use ‘the liquefied oxy {gen. Not only the liquefyfng proces {but also the construction of th: | containers, which are surprising’ light, is the Invention of Heyland: who has recently eelebrated hus 251! anniversary as a chemical research |er and inventor. | neidentally, Heylandt's lquid ox #*n_waa used for christening th: new Zeppelin dirigible at Friedrich shafen. |British Plans, Rushed To Cuba by Plane, W Lendon, Oct. 2 (M-—An airplan: | was successfully empleved by a Brit- lish firm of interior decorators te aid !in obtaining a contract for furnish- jing and decerating the houses ot | parliament at Havana. In ene of the | keenest business competitions in re- cent history the airplane played a vital part. Foreign competitors early lo: | March obtained sets of plans up |which to base their decorati | schemes, while the British firm « !not receive them until the end | April. when it was notified all dr: ings and catimates were due at } vana June 1. As transportation wo require about three weeks, the B ish firm had enly one week in wh to produce some 140 large desig but obtained a two weeks' eytensi of time. Artists labored mornii {noon and night for three weeks a |then dispatched the designs by shi |train and finally airplane, whi made delivery with only 20 minut te spare. Accomplishment Effectiveness Personnel tation, communication, etc. In the last few years new methods have brough' the art of printing up with the leaders in progress. 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