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DURING Whit-week, the Textile Institute is holding its annual Conference in London, and in association with this event, it has been arranged to hold an exhibition of apparatus, and testing devices for scientific and industrial research in relation to textiles. The exhibits will be staged at the headquarters of the Conference, the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C.2. The exhibition will be opened by Dr. Harry Moore, director of research of the British Scientific Instrument Research Association, at 3 p.m. on June 3, and remain open until 9 p.m. On June 4 and 5 the exhibition will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The exhibits will include a ring wool friction testing machine; whirling-light rotoscope; hygrometers; thermographs; recording pyrometers, pressure gauges, trichromatic colorimeter; microscopes; time regulators; ultra violet equipment; X-ray apparatus; colour comparators; spectrophotometers; colloid mills; and devices for controlling and recording temperature, humidity and pressure. A descriptive catalogue of exhibits will be issued free to all visitors. Further particulars and tickets of admission are available from the Textile Institute's headquarters at 16 St. Mary's Parsonage, Manchester 3.
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Scientific Instruments in Relation to Textiles. Nature 137, 863 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137863b0
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