THE SCIENCE SOCIETY Three meetings have been held this term, one of which was a film show and the others talks on "Radio" and "Out-of-gauge Loads." Visits were arranged to the Press Office and the Radar Exhibition in York. A fuller account of these is given elsewhere. Three films were shown at the first meeting on 1st February. The first depicted the use of penicillin for wounded men during the war. The stages in the discovery and preparation of the pure product were also shown. The next film showed the building up and use of a cathode ray tube. The two uses given were the cathode ray oscillograph and the apparatus used to determine the distance of electrical storms from meteorological stations. The last film described the manufacture of the Mosquito aircraft. It showed the building of the wooden structure and emphasized the great accuracy and precision in all the work. A talk entitled "Radio" was given by Mr. Harris at the meeting held on 22nd February. The talk was a description of the construction and use of certain parts of a wireless set. Various forms of these parts were passed round the audience for inspection. The last meeting, held on 13th March, consisted of a very interesting and informative talk by Mr. H. S. Wood on "Out-of-gauge Loads." Mr. Wood is an Old Peterite at present in the Engineer's Department of the L.N.E.R., York. His talk described how the Railway Company transports bulky goods and abnormal loads from one place to another, and was illustrated by many lantern slides. Mr. J. Burton, the L.N.E.R. Official Photographer, showed a film he had made of the passage through this area recently of the 130-ton stator bound for Birmingham, for which Mr. Wood was responsible. Mr. Burton also showed some recent pictures of the snowbound railway between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen. Mr. Wood was bombarded with questions at the end of the lecture—a sure sign that the subject was interesting. We heartily thank both Mr. Wood and Mr. Burton for such an instructive and enjoyable evening. A VISIT TO THE YORKSHIRE HERALD PRINTING WORKS
On 27th January, 1947, eighteen members of the Science Society spent a very interesting afternoon at the Yorkshire Herald Printing Works, by kind permission of the Editor, Mr. A. Cobham. We were shown, in three groups, round the Composing Room, Processing Room, Commercial Printing Department, and the Printing Press Room. News is received from Leeds and London by creed machines. The sender types out the message on a special "typewriter" which punches holes corresponding to the morse of the letter in a strip of paper. He places this strip of paper in a machine which sends electric impulses corresponding to the holes along a wire (owned by 28
