ELECTRICALLY HEATED CLOTHES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 8

ELECTRICALLY HEATED CLOTHES

The British aeroplanes-de-luxe which were used for carrying oflieiiils connected villi tho Peace- Conference between London and Paris were equipped not only with olectrio light in the cabin, but also with electric circuits for heating (he clothing of the pilots and passengers.-Tho clothing contains a network of electric resistance wires in tho arms and legs, and when these wires are connected to the electric circuits they become warm. It was n British engineer who first worked out the quantities of electricity needed lo keep the human body comfortably warm when applied- in this way ■to the extremities. The amount is .surprisingly small, being only about as much as is taken by an electric lamp of one hundred candle-power. In a little while we way find the same system used liv Arctic explorers for their sleeping liags, by look-out men, and steersmen on board ships in cold latitudes, end also by motorists and others exposed to strong.winds and low temperatures., Medical .applications also readily suggest themselves. It was on a British ambulance, by the way, thai electric radiators were first lifted to the stretchers (o keep tlm wounded warm and prevent collr.pse on the way to hospital. A penny has been fixed on one side of the pendulum of Big Ben tit Westminster and a halfpenny on the other in order to adjust its "swinging motion, which has got elightly out of gear. Mrs.- F.'iwcett is resigning her position as president of the National Union of Suffrage Societies. She feels that her ago —she is nearly 72—justifies this step, but hopes that the union will carry on its work under the leadership ef younger woman.