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SAVE STEAM by keeping condensers Oakite-clean! BTU'i fly up ih Hack when (Judge and hard-watrr scsls bog down condenien. Hera's how lo (tap thi wane. Try Oaklie't proved method of maintaining condenssrs. Power* ful Oakite alkaline cleaner re* move* (Judge . . . then tree Oakite Compound No. 32 to diuolvc lime scs(--fait. Job it dona in place, by circulating or aoaking.' No ticne*wasting die* mantling of equipment. Results? Rated heat trantfer re* ttored with leu downtime, leal effort, at Jeat coat. Get U>a facta free. Call your local Oakha Technical Servlet Representative. Or write for frea, Illustrated digett of 71 Oakha maintenance cleaning procedural. No obligation. Oakite Product*, Inc., 23 Rec tor St., New York 6. N. Y. ... OAKITE ...... ........... TaAded Strtin fcnwwl'c Utnf<e IWwWCUo 4tWwrftenWCkmde 156 More POWER NEWS ^an wo* IM reversed to permit at lent 50,000-cfs over the (alls, weather permitting. Another provision requires remedial works in the Upper Niagara Raplda to distribute the decreased flow more evenly over the crcstlinea of both cataracts. Id this way, the agreement preserves the beauty of one of Nature's wonders while permitting Us full utilization. Camlng Eventi Oct 19-23--American Society of Civil Engineer*, annual meeting, Sutler Hotel, New York City. For details write ASCE, 33 W 39th St. New York 18, N. Y. Nov *Amerlean Institute of Flee* iricol Engineers, fell general meeting, Muelcboch Hotel, Kansas City, Me. For details writo AIEE, 33 W 39th St, New York IB, N. Y. Nov lft.20--Joint AIEE-IRE Confer, ence on Electronic Instrumentation in Nucleonics and Medicine, Hotel New Yorker, New York City. For detail* write AIEE, S3 W 39th Si. New York 18. N. Y. Adolph Meyer continued front page J70 Franklin H*H, October 21, 19S3. Accompanying the award is a citation that read*: "In consideration of his basic contributions to aciontifie research on the Gas Turbine power .plant and, in particular, to hia pioneer work in the development of the first successful Gas Turbine Locomotive." At Brown Boverl & Co, Baden, Switterland, Dr Mfeyer developed the drat continuous combustion Cos Turbine Locomotive for the Swiss Federal Rail* ways. Placed in service in the fall of 1941, It is stilt in condnous operation. Dr Meyer has been the motivating spirit behind the'gas turbine from its inception and by his encouragement and guidance of younger engineers working in the Retd, as well at by his own efforts, is primarily responsible for its present high level of development. Rorn in Switzerland in 1860, Dr Meyer was graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1903. He received doctors degrees from Stev ens Institute of Technology, 1935, and from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1941. He was the Calvin Rice Lecturer in 1935 and twice re< ceived the George Stephenson Research Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In 1950 he was elected a foreign honorary member of the Ameri can Academy of Arts ond Sciences. He is the author of many technical papers delivered both here and obroad. From 1923 to 1946 Dr Meyer was Man*