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THE Engineering Exhibition at Cardiff on November 22-December 2, held under the auspices of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, was the twelfth annual exhibition run by the Institute and, notwithstanding the depression in the mining industry of South Wales, the exhibitors staged some excellent examples of the latest developments of machinery and plant. Among the new features in the exhibits this year was a display by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. This exhibit included material for the survey of the coal seams of Great Britain which is being undertaken to determine their physical and chemical characteristics; a model coal cleaning plant in operation; exhibits illustrating recent progress in the carbonisation of coal and hydrogenation; pulverised fuel and the suspension of coal in oil. This combined research exhibit must have been of great value to those who are responsible for the mining industry in South Wales. Other special features of the exhibition were coal breaking and dry cleaning plants, steel girder arches and continuous steel lining for underground roads, electric plant, switchgear and mine signalling apparatus, woodwork machinery plant, mechanical stokers, electric welding plant, steel pit props, coal tar products for use on roads, an oxygen ‘cutting’ machine, oxyacetylene welding, turbines, steel tubes, steel wire ropes, etc. The object of the South Wales Institute of Engineers in organising these exhibitions is mainly educational, and all students from the university colleges, the technical colleges, the county council mining schools, and members of all engineering societies and institutions are admitted free to the Exhibition. Another object is, of course, to bring the manufacturer into touch with the consumer, and so help in developing the industries of the district.
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Engineering Exhibition at Cardiff. Nature 132, 850–851 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132850d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132850d0