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A. S. T . M. Holds Annual Meeting 42nd annual meeting of the Ameri can Society for Testing Materials, J. can held June 2 6 to 30 at Atlantic City, N. J., attracted over 1300 technicians of the engi neering industries—its highest attendance at Atlantic City. The technical discussions were opened June 27 by the president of the society, T. G. Delbridge, of the Atlantic Refin ing Co., who later spoke on "Glimpses of Petroleum." Mr. Delbridge touched briefly on the beginnings of the industry and recounted many of the technical ad vances made. In speaking of automobile lubrication, he recalled how "the Saybolt method of measuring viscosity was not accurate enough to predict whether at low temperature, such as 0 ° F., a given oil would be fluid enough to permit easy start ing and yet viscous t o lubricate safely after t h e motor had reached operating temperature. The Society of Automot ive Engineers then requested a more accurate method." As a result, kinematic vis cometers of the capillary tube type were standardized with subsequent elimination of the difficulty. Features of the yearly convention are the annual Edgar Marburg Lecture, Riven every year by a selected authority on some phase of engineering technology, and t h e presentation of the Charles B. Dudley Medal to an "author or authors of a paper of outstanding merit and con stituting an original contribution on re search in engineering materials." Speaker for the fourteenth Marburg Lecture was Hubert F. Moore, professor of engineering materials a t the University of Illinois, who spoke on "Stress, Strain, and Structural Damage." The thirteenth Dudley Medal was awarded t o Roy W. Carlson, associate rofessor of civil engineering at the lassachusetts Institute of Technology, for his paper, presented before the society at the 1938 annual meeting, on drying shrinkage of concrete. Into the A. S. T. M . volumes will go the reports of 61 committees, made before the 23 separate sessions, together with 75 technical papers dealing with every phase of material testing. Planning and amass ing data for future sessions were 220 com mittees, subcommittees, and four roundtable discussions. These reports and conclusions were not put on the record. Concurrent with the conference, an exhi bition of testing apparatus was held, the first of its kind at Atlantic City, a t which 28 companies displayed their'latest ma chines and apparatus. At the second session, which was de voted to paint and related products, E. W. Fasig, Lowe Brothers Co., de scribed and exhibited a new gage for measuring t h e texture of paints and enamels: and A. De Witt, Parker Rust Proof Co., described how contamination of metal panels by fingerprints, contami nated rinse water, or metal markings can cause a high-bake finish material to peel or to erode exactly the same pattern a s the contaminating mark. At this session a conical mandrel test for measuring distensibilities of paint films was described by H. G. Arlt, Bell Telephone Labora tories. This test method, which has tentatively been adopted b y the A . S. T. M., eliminates the numerous sizes of circular mandrels heretofore necessary to determine the angle at which paint films cracked. Instead, the gradual in creasing angle of a conical mandrel allows the determination to be made in one test. Other papers described improved cork boxes for inducing accelerated weathering, and a method of preparing test panels for a water-seep test of paints. ΠΡΗΒ
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A new tentative method for the prepara tion of metallographic specimens t o take the place of t h e present standard was proposed by Committee £ 4 . An accelerated test for weathering of bituminous materials was called to the at tention of the society b y Committee D 8 . The method consists essentially of sub jecting samples of bituminous composi tion t o alternate periods of carbon arc light, water spray, and refrigeration a t - 2 3 ° C. With a few modifications, t h e cement grou roup recommended that the method of Will William Lerch and R. H. Bogue ( I N » . ENO. CHBM., Anal. Ed., 2, 296 (1930)) for determining free calcium oxide in Port land cement by Emley's glycerol-ethanol method be accepted as standard. Several industrial surveys were re ported by the members of the Com mittee on Refractories. Conditions under which refractories are used in lime burning and plate and window glass manufacture were investigated. The report contains the temperatures present in various parts of the manufacturing operations, refrac tories generally used, and defects in pres ent material. Paint, varnish, lacquer, and related products were given considerable thought and new tentative specifications for shellac, varnishes, centrifugal shellac varnish, and zinc dust were recommended. Tentative methods for the chemical analysis of zinc dust, tests for specular gloss, and for elongation of lacquer coat ings were proposed. There were also numerous revisions of paint pigment standards and methods for routine analy sis. A test method for determining the carbon residue of petroleum products, known as the Ramsbottom test, was placed before t h e meeting, as were new methods for determining gum stability of gasoline, the doctor test for motor fuels, quantitative analytical procedures for lead in gasolines, sulfur in petroleum oils, and several tests for physical properties of lubricating properties. T h e Abbe refractometer was designated as t h e preferred instrument for deter mining t h e index of refraction of trans parent organic plastics, and suggested solutions for use as contacting liquide were made in the report of the Committee on Plastics. This same group also con sidered means of testing the resistance of plastics t o chemicals and specified liquids to b e used. Plastic samples are t o be immersed in the corrosive liquids, and the percentage increase or decrease in diame ter or length, percentage increase or decrease in weight, and the general appear ance of the specimen after a 7-day im mersion are to be reported. T h e Committee on Testing has indi cated an interest in standardizing tubes used in centrifugals, as the increase in types available has complicated methods of analysis. This problem i s to be dis cussed with other societies in the hope that a minimum number of tubes will be standardized for all fields of analysis. A tentative method for hard-rubber testing has been devised. The chemical analysis of this product is almost identical with the standard for rubber products. Main differences are, briefly: samples are reduced t o a powder, cleaned with a magnet, and passed through a N o . 3 0 sieve; t h e alcoholic potash extraction is continued for 16 hours instead of 4 ; a more concentrated nitric acid-bromine solution i s used for free sulfur determina tion and samples used for sulfur analysis are smaller. T h e rubber group also standardized on the Pusey and Jones plastometer for the indentation value of rubber.
JULY 20,1939 T h e soap group proposed several tenta tive methods for chemical analysis of in terest t o that field. They are carbon dioxide in caustic soda, trisodium phos phate, and sodium metasilicate. Several tentative methods were also revised by this group. The next annual meeting will also be held a t Atlantic City. Seventeenth Exposition of Chemical Industries
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NEWS EDITION ing, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, Cambridge, Mass.; and Warren L. McCabe, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Tech nology, Pittsburgh, Penma. T h e committee issues a cordial invita tion t o authors who wish t o contribute papers to t h e symposium t o submit their materia] t o the committee. Prospective authors are requested to submit abstracts of approximately 200 words of their papers to any member of the symposium commit tee by September 15, 1939.
HE Seventeenth Exposition of Chemi T cal Industries may exceed all its predecessors in size and scope, according t o advance indications. T h e exposition will be held at the Grand Central Palace, N e w York, Ν . Υ., December 4 to 9, 1939. Three entire floors of the Palace are re served for t h e event and t w o floors and more than half of the third are now en gaged b y exhibitors. More than 260 concerns have completed their arrange ments for exhibit space. While most ex hibitors have appeared in previous ex positions, the number of new exhibitors this year is greater than for the previous exposition. T. James Barnes, who has received the de The Chemical Exposition is this year gree of master of science at Pennsyl observing its 25th anniversary of service vania State College, lias taken a posi t o the chemical industries. Since it was tion as chemist in time pharmaceutical founded in 1915, there have been sixteen department of Eli Lilly and Company, previous appearances and the exposition Indianapolis, Ind. is now established on a biennial basis. Principal sections are chemicals and chemical products, laboratory equipment and supplies, instruments of precision, materials handling equipment, brewing, distilling and bottling equipment, con tainers and packaging machinery, indus trial chemical equipment, and machines. Symposium o n Temperature HE American Institute of Physics, 175 Fifth Ave., N e w York, Ν . Υ., i s organ T izing a Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry. This will be held in New York, Ν . Υ., November 2 to 4, 1939. The symposium is planned to coordinate the treatment of the subject of tempera ture in the several branches of science and engineering, t o review principles and re cord recent work, t o accumulate contribu R i c h a r d P. B r o w n tions for a comprehensive text to be pub lished after the symposium, t o emphasize the importance of temperature as a branch Richard P. Brown, who was recently ap of physics, and t o improve technical cur pointed b y Governor Arthur H . James ricula through making available up-to-date t o be the first secretary of the new De information. All interested persons active partment of Commerce of the Common in science or engineering are invited to wealth of Pennsylvania, was formerly contribute papers, or t o attend the ses president and is now chairman of the sions. board of the Brown Instrument Co. and vice president of MinneapolisHoneywell Regulator Co. Mr. Brown Sixth Annual Chemical Engi has been interested for some years in the neering Symposium industrial development of Pennsylvania, with the objective of increasing the num HE Sixth Annual Chemical Engineer ber of jobs in private industry and ing Symposium of the Division of In thereby reducing the relief load and, in dustrial and Engineering Chemistry of the turn, the taxes necessary to support AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY will be held those on relief. The new Department at Ann Arbor, Mich., December 28 and 29, of Commerce is not only to aid Pennsyl 1939. vania's industries in their successful The subject chosen for the symposium expansion and development, but i t was is Separation Operations, which includes also authorized b y the Commerce Law filtration, crystallization, sedimentation, t o recommend future legislation t o t h e hydraulic classification and separation, Pennsylvania Legislature which can b e and screening. of help to Pennsylvania industries. Mr. The program is under the direction of a Brown's past business training of 3 0 committee consisting of E. W. Comings, years in the manufacture of measuring Department of Chemical Engineering, and controlling instruments for use in University of Illinois, Urbana, IB.; T . B . industry should b e o»f great value t o Drew, E . I . du Pont de Nemours & Co., him in his new position. Wilmington, Del. ; C. C. Furnas, Depart ment of Chemical Engineering, Yale Ralph W. Frey, now senior chemist in the University, N e w Haven, Conn.; H . C . Industrial Farm Products Research Weber, Department of Chemical EngineerDivision of the Bureau of Agricultural
Chemistry and Engineering, has re cently completed 2 5 years of service with t h e Bureau of Chemistry a n d Soils and i t s predecessors. Mr. Frey entered t h e United States Depart ment o f Agriculture on January 16, 1914, a s assistant chemist under F. P . Veitch, who was in charge of t h e Leather and Paper Laboratory of t h e old Bureau of Chemistry, and h a s served continuously through various reorganizations with the exception of five months when he was chemist for a manufacturer of commercial tanning extracts. R. O. Hull of the Electroplating Division of E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., inc., was awarded the Proctor Memorial prize of $100 b y the American Electroplaters' Society at its convention in Asbury Park, N . J., June 22. Mr. Hull was honored for the development of a n improved simple method for determin ing irregularities in electroplating solu tions before they are applied. At t h e Harvard University commence ment, the honorary degree of doctor of science was conferred upon Charles F . Kettering, president of the General Motors Corp., as "an engineer in t h e great American tradition, an inventor whose imagination has quickened both industry and science." N . Judson Miller has been added t o t h e sales staff of the Providence Drysalters Division of the Hercules Powder Co., to serve the textile industry in North Carolina and South Carolina. M r . Miller has headquarters a t the branch office of the Naval Stores Department of Hercules Powder Co., 615 Johnston Bldg., Charlotte, N . C. For t h e past several years, he has been a broker for textile chemicals and supplies in the South. George Oenslager, of the B . F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, was given t h e hon orary degree of doctor of science at the recent commencement exercises of t h e University of Akron, in recognition of his pioneer work in rubber research and his contributions to the development of the industry.
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P e t e r C. R e i l l y Peter C. Reilly, president of t h e Reilly Tar and Chemical Co., Indianapolis, at the 95th commencement exercises of the University of Notre Dame re ceived the honorary degree of L L . D . This was in recognition of his valuable service t o industry, t o his community, and to the university where he serves as a member of the associate board of lay trustees.
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