There is no new thing'under the sun but the Engineering Exhibition which opens at Nanyang Universi on Saturday morning is unique in the annals of Chinese industrial] am, and engineering history. The occasion is the celebration of the ment, concerts, games, tree plenti and cinema shows that go to make the three-day celebration, this exhibition of engineering materials ang appliances will be held.
Some 50 of Shanghai's foremost hongs are represented and their showing cover the fid ing and business administration in a fashion that f% very comprehensive. Here is the humble curling. ivan and there is the great oil-engine to drive the dynamo generates. the vitalizi heat the iron, Here are electric ranges to heat the food and there is a refrigerator to keep it cool. One can see electric lights for home and club and then see the bones of his hand. There is a choice of telephones, ordinary, automatic and radio. Bricks for houses, furnaces, Intest methods in billing and filing, concrete for fountains and factories, wires and cables for electric power plants, dictaphones for busy office executives, pumps for rice field irrigation, rubber tyres for boys' bicycles and rubber gloves for handling lightning, advertising posters for progressive railways, insteuments for surveyors, tiles and mosaics for glistening bath-rooms—and so on for a pleasant hour's saunter of mile or so.
The two large buildings of the University will, be outlined thousands of electric lamps lighted! by a dynamo driven by a 100-h.p. oil engine installed for the purpose by the Han Yung Ca. A similar gift of lamps and energy comes from Anderson, Meyer & Ca, for the lighting of the western exhibition hall. The Business Equipment Cor poration will turn out leaflets descriptive of the various exhibits on their multigraph machines. A tiny mining locomotive with an oil engine will drag five-cars around an oval track carrying visitors. At the courtesy of Siemssen & Ca. The International Harvester Ca. will hold daily demonstrations of farming machinery drawn by tractor engines: a field will be ploughed, harrowed, planted and cultivated, and th. resulting imaginary crop will be reaped, threshed and ground. Entertainment features will be brond-casted by the Kellogg Switchboard Supply Ca.
The celebration will continue for three days beginning at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning; the rejoicing jon will continue wi Sunday night, October 17. Admission is without charge. Lee cream and refreshments will be on sale.
Mr. 'S. L. Wang is chairman of the Engineering Exhibition Committee and Mr. Gordon Thompson is English secretary.
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Engineering Ex! opens Opening Ceremony Tang Won-tche Hall Address guests, Concert Piano sole Cant Ancient Songs, ki
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