RESEARCH WORK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 6

RESEARCH WORK

AtECHANICAL ENGINEERNG ;~iv Ilenry Barraclough, Professor o! Mechanical 'Engineering, and l)eaii of llje vacuity ot Engineering, bniverjsity. ei ytiuey. passed througu Auckland on Saturday. , , • bir Henry said he had been on a "doctor’s holiday” for six mouths, but had taken the opportunity bot.fi in Eng ‘ bind and the United States to observe what was being done in recent research. For the Rolling Research Laboratory, in ,'ydney he had acquired a certain amount of equipment, some of which had been supplied from other re,search laboratories, in fact in several instances duplicates of equipment had irceu made for tlie*. Rolling Laboratory. A great, deal of research into materials was ooing carried out at the present time. A new series of testing machines had been made, ami materials were being subjected to all manner of strains and temperatures. The interior structure of things was being inquired into. Sir Ilenry said that resin glass was one of the most interesting materials he hud seen. It was even more transparent Ilian glass, but would not shatter. It was a plastic material for which there were great hopes of commercial success.