Reducing to a Minimum the Friction With Which Our Entire Civilization Moves, Ball and Roller Bearings of All Types and Sizes are Major Contributing Factors to the Super Speeds Which Characterize This Age. Continuing Research is Yielding Better Materials and Better Lubrication
Silver, Long Tied to Currency Values, Can Become the Fair-Haired Boy of Industrial Engineering Metals. Its Mettle Has Already Been Proved in the Brazing, Electrical, and Chemical Fields. Future Expansion Will Depend Upon Price and Industry's Attitude
Surface Coatings With Bases of Silicone Resins Possess Many Seemingly Impossible Combinations of Opposing Qualities
Industry Is Turning More and More to Motion Pictures to Solve Tough Sales Problems: Here Is How One Manufacturer Used This Graphic Medium to Break Down Consumer Incredulity in the Capabilities of His Products, and also to Present Instructions For Their Use
Editor's Note: The accompanying article is the last of a series of four, adapted by permission from papers presented at a recent Standard Oil Company (N. J.) seminar on Fuels of the Future. Each paper deals with different phases of fuels for engines of types now in use, under development, or projected. Together they summarize the general subject and furnish a glimpse of the fuels and engines which technology will be offering to transportation in the years to come.
A Wide Range of Consumer, Commercial, and Industrial Applications Lie Open to Polyvinylidene Chloride, a Plastics Material Whose Unusual Versatility Marks It for A Position of Ever-Increasing Importance
From the National Bureau of Standards Protection of Personnel in the Vicinity of High-Voltage Industrial X-Ray Equipment Becomes a Greater Problem as Voltages Go Up and Uses of X-Rays Broaden. Studies Now Underway are Aimed at Replacing Guess-Work With Facts Which Can be Fitted to Individual Installations