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Mechanical engineering is also a basic profession in modern industry. It is concerned with such activities as the development and transmission of power, the design and construction of machinery, and the operation of industrial plants. Although the subject matter of mechanical and civil engineering may differ greatly there is much overlapping of interest and both share the principles of applied mechanics as a common basis...
Yesterday Brooks indicated that although the Register will not change in form or content, the Red Book will differ in color plan from books of former years...
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...arithmetic and of picturemakers in terms of cogs and units. At first he occupies a suite in orchid and pale fudge in a famed hotel, but is driven by job-seekers and backslappers to refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...