STEEL PAPER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 10

STEEL PAPER

ADHERES TO PLASTER WALLS. AMERICAN INNOVATION. Should somebody want a house . lined with steel, they can call in a paperhanger and put him to work, a fact which becomes apparent in Los i Angeles at the Western Metal Congress, when James H. Spade, of Huntington Park, disclosed a processed chromium steel, which adheres to the plaster like wallpaper and is rustproof in character. The new product, he explained, is particularly handy for the bathroom, and can even be used for construction of a kitchen sink.. It is glued to the wall with the same cement as is employed in affixing linoleum to the floor. GOOD INSULATOR. Ip addition, the product insulates sound and temperature, according to A. W. F. Green, research engineer, of Watervilet, New York, and as Spade and Green described the new use if steel they stood beneath a sign which bore the name of their company,, “Ludlum,” in letters of sky blue-coloured steel. This was held by metallurgists as a great invention, and the forerunner of an era in which pastel tones will be dyed into the heart and fabric of a piece of metal. Scientists assembled at the congress, however, were reluctant to discuss this procedure of colouring steel, saying that many experiments will be conducted before the innovation can be made a matter of public interest. That racing automobiles are forerunners of the ordinary passenger car's development was the statement of C. W. Ruth, of Republic Steel Corporation, Cleveland. Ruth stated that the metallurgists recognise racing autos and aeroplanes as proving grounds for new materials and alloys which later may be applied to increase the perfection of 'the modern touring car.