SILENT WITNESSES IN DAYS GONE BY the manufacture of nitro-glycerine was controlled by men seated on one-legged stools. It was reckoned that; if the strain made them sleepy; they would fall over and wake up Modern control methods in chemical works present a different picture. The acetone plant at ICIs Billingham works, for example, contains nearly a hundred controls, yet it is looked after by only two men constantly on the watch to ensure e that everything is working smoothly. In the brain of the plant; details of levels, flows, temperatures and pressures are received by the dials and controlling instruments that line the walls from Hoor to ceiling: In the centre are two great desks, and here sit the operators; who from time to time press switches and enter readings in a book: It is a far cry from the men on the one-legged stools to these gleaming panels of silent witnesses: ICI IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (NZ) LTD
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 12
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