The Chemist Is Ready to Revolutionize Our House-building Habits Feost On Owx Connesroxoext San Francisco, Sept. 16.
T question whether there is a city the world wiiers yor will be able to find so many styles of architect ture as Shanghai possesses. If you doubt this, take a drive around the rench Concession, and the trip will be both interesting and enlighten ig. Shanghai architects are prokressive, but according to Dt. Gerald Wendt (director, of the jon of Industrial Research at ie Pennsylvania State College) practically all their ideas will be him, we are on house-building revolution. This revolution will be the result of the work of -the chemist, who now stands ready to improve all build-ang habits by supplying new mater-Is at a price to compete with the ieient and honoured ones.
No question in the economic world of greater importance. Conerete, stucco, composition roofings and floor coverings, euys Dr. Wendt, are here to stay. Next will come composition floors, fireproof, and of any desired hardness or colour; resinoids place of all interior woodwork. in eluding furniture; lacquered "an vitishable walls la place of will-pope s for draper Cipped in composition, so that they, teo, can be washed with " sponge, and luminous paints which will give a soft natural light without} consumption of energy. With will come extension of electric power to heat the home in winter, and/ cool it throughout the summer.
And none of these suggestions is replaced by more suitable and more vain dream, all are based on most startling, changes will come, re realities which are kept from Says the writer: popular use only by prevent cost} "Walls ings, floors, woo work and furniture. will all be com:
Writing in "The Nation's Busi: position, oF synthetic traces ness,"
Dr. Wendt from. the "Stone Age, lite. ict oF resinold, auch, an "ake: thousand inca few years, eapecialiy thousand uses there will be another For each of their present when man used what he could) rick up—raw meat and herbs for "thet'conts'of manutueture can food, clubs and stones for weep seduced and. this in turns merely fecves for shelter, grasses and skins Savoaton of intaeant'slontite for clothing, aninfals and logs for asearch." Not long. ago. thave re: sinoids were molal amor" for transportation. Next came the Use In beads, pipe-stem and earette tive period when these rude Holders: "Todays speaking of dome:
were mechanically medi tle uses only, they can, be discovered cvesywhere sy door-knobs: Lanipepull, for gre: usefulness, But} electric switch plates, drawer pulley when invention reached a third ramon, peels, radio bunds and stage, that of er when new terial weve prodicad "which ied tores poy ure does not provide."
Vowls and chinaware And to: will-come resinoid' furniture Little Improvement Yet Made tops are rea Lighted cigarettes Our brick, stone and wood ai hay be laid on them and. allowed 0 however, utile removed from the! burn without damage. "Water, inks, Stone Age. Dr. Wendt pointe out! siohel: Nair toues, and, medicnes Pow Indust contraction wns)
for tei Tae cout ermine BE, hen ence, sanitation and safety from! jerfeciiy' transferred' ton ther fire, but he predicts great changes wood expert can searcely ideas during. the next decade; Hngulhf'fron och. 1 fe oupaie He quotes, for example the item of {004 In every neapect except When "forests were out SHH pjtabiy aot capable fort realest absiable and tees the teeing Mer mechanic" and trate [cheapest of all raw materials, it) chance that it will produce, just og was natural to cut timber for house nit steel had boon. tried ter building. But to-day wood is preiueey and the ious beyond its prize. The world's horgeless carving isappeating forests are needed for And then Dr. Wendt reminds usy host of chemical produets—paper, ollodion, celluloid, artificial leath it the resinoide are the simple photographic funis, cil-cloth, lino- combination of two chemicals—for-la ie Sed maldehyde and phenol. T wish T and for chemicals and solvents suck jad obols, acetone, acetic acid, and cther factors of the synthetic house cee to quote many of the
Various oils and tars, The doctor of {o-morrow, emphasizes the fact that wood is foundation, steel walls, synthetic rapidly taking its place as a valu- (stone floor Bases, surfaces of tatie raw material, which, like coal, ttbber, leather or cellulose com-petroleum, cannot lefnitely Positions, draperies and curtains of be used for the crude purposes furniture of moulded reheat, power and construction,"
We shall soon be sleeping lay ax a fuel is gone; as a cone[ jolt rays. All houses will struction mater it will soon be have fs, with open-air sleep:
All interiors will lighted not as now by electricity which is wasted to such a great extent in heat, but by "materials that are a 100 per cent. efficient in emission. These are the various phosphorescent materials ike barium sulphide and zine sulphide, which, when properly prepared will take up large amounts of light energy, and will re-emit all the light when placed in the daitk,""
ie cost will only be the original will be any that is desired, since the principles of colour ation are already established and materials AVIATION MAS BEEN MADE BY Titk Rov, AL Att Force pcaixo it
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