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A SECTIONAL meeting of the World Power Conference will be held in Vienna next year on August 25–September 2, by invitation of the Austrian National Committee. The meeting will be followed by one or more 'study tours' of approximately a week's duration. We understand that the British Government has received an invitation to be represented by official delegates at Vienna. The British National Committee, 36 Kingsway, London, W.C.2, has copies in English of the technical programme of the Vienna Sectional Meeting. It is divided into five sections, dealing with the supply of energy for agriculture, small-scale industries, household purposes, public lighting and electric railways. The term 'small-scale industries' is used to cover both handicrafts and industries employing a relatively small number of workmen, about twenty or thirty ; in addition, hotels, cafés, restaurants and shops. The kinds of motive power used should be mentioned: solid and liquid fuel, gas, water power, wind power, steam or electricity, and stress should be laid on those of special importance. Information should be included on the use of human and animal as compared with mechanical power, and the influence of the latter on civilization and health. Technical and economic comparisons between the supply of energy from public electric or gas mains and from private plant would be welcome. Data about lighting power and heat in small-scale industries with special reference to the tools and the drive of the appliances employed, and in particular, room heating, air conditioning, cooking (on a large scale) in restaurants, bakers' ovens and welding. Under the section for the supply of energy for public lighting is included the energy used in traffic lighting, as on railways, for shipping, in air transport, and in traffic control signals.
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World Power Conference: Vienna Sectional Meeting. Nature 140, 1009 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401009c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401009c0