Twenty-five thousand lines to the inch —could you draw them? No human being has been able to do such fine work, but Dr Wilmcr Sender, physicist at the T'nited States Bureau of Standards, has devised a machine that will draw these line lines. It will be of great assistance in many phases of engineering design. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, First Sea Lord, made a thrilling climb to the top of Reigate Priory, his Surrey mansion, to. direct the operations of firemen during a fire which broke out in the servants’ quarters. To reach his position on the roof, 60ft above the ground, he had to climb up through the footman's bedroom window, and haul himself up by the gutter pipe.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20021, 11 February 1927, Page 10
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