AT WEMBLEY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4717, 27 June 1924, Page 3

AT WEMBLEY.

SCIENCE WONDERS EXHIBITED. ROYAL SOCIETY’S DISPLAY. If the soot that falls on London in a year could be collected in one pile it would cover Westminster Abbey. This is shown at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in the Royal Society’s display of pure science by a cardboard model of the Abbey and a saucerful of soot, representing 55,000 tons, beside it. Another Royal Society exhibit is an endless rubber band running at great speed, like an escalator gone mad. A man’s efforts to remain stationary on it are recorded by a device showing the extent of his physical strength. There are machines for measuring food values, the minute quantities of heat in the muscles, and the electric currents in the heat, A microphone will enable you to hear a'fly walking. Early research work is shown by the original apparatus of famous men. On view is Faraday’s galvanometer, which was shown before an incredulous gathering at the Royal Society “What is the use of such a thing ?” a woman asked Faraday on one of these occasions. "Madani,” he replied, “can you tell me the use of a newborn baby ?”