The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-15

chemical society to Birmingham and other southern cities is of great in- terest in industrial circles.
 The technical men of the. Birming- ham district are planning to enter tain the distinguished visitors on May 3.
 C. G.. Schluderberg, chairman of the membership committee of the society contributes to the Baltimore Manufac- turers Record this informing sketch:
 The United States is now training Several million more will be trained These men must have cannon, ma chine guns, rifles, shells, powder, cart ridges, gases, airplanes, automobiles trucks and all other equipment or war in enormous quantities.
 To manufacture these munitions high-grade alloy steel is necessary. For the preparation of the ferroalloys used in making this steel existing electric furnaces are being worked to their utmost capacity. Numbers of new electric ferroalloy furnaces are being constructed.
 , For the manufacture of airplanes and auto trucks vast quantities of aluminium are required. This can only te manufactured by electrochemfcal processes.
 Large quantities of zinc necessary in manufacturing the brass used in the millions of cartridge cases made daily are recovered from the ore and puri- | fled electrolytically.
 l The gases used for war purposes are largely possible of preparation only by | olectrochemical means.
 | oF nd used for preparing the vast quanti- | ties of explosives required by our army and navy will be prepared with l the aid of electrochemical and electro- . thermal processes.
 | Other basic materials, such as mag nesium etc., which will be required in quantities can only be prepared | With the aid of the electric furnace. It is self-evident to every thinking man that the electroche hemical industry is essential to the winning of the war.
 So closely associated with the elec- trochemical industry as to be almost one and the same thing is the Amer can Electrochemical society. Com posed as it is of the foremost electro chemists, engineers, metallurgists. chemists. manufacturers and central station men. whose interests are to- day more than ever before, closely l associated with the tremendous de velopment along electrochemical and elcctrothermal lines. these men are de- voting a large part of their time ,o the work being carried on to solve the very grave problems concerning our country in the present crisis. They are unsparingly giving their services both in the highest counsels of the national government as we'll as in operating the industries which are so ably carrying out plans to help Amer ica win the war.
 The American Electrochemical so- ciety is recognized as one of the livest scientific organizations in existence and is nationally renowned for the breadth of the discussions covering the papers and addresses presented at its two general meetings held each year in various parts of the country, which. combined with visits and special ex- cursions to the more important cen ters of electrochemical developm ents are attended by the foremost scien- lists. engineers metallurgists chem ists, manufacturers and central sta tion men.
 Inherently. electrochemical work ne- cessitates men who have been trained along engineering, chemical and met allurgical lines. It is the one comm on meeting ground involving practically all scientific. technical and engineer ing men. This may be readily illus trated by few examples, as for in- stance, in the making of steel, cleo trical men are necessary to design and operate the furnace. Metallurgists are necessary to manufacture the steel made therein. In the manufacture oi aluminium we again see the necessity for electrical men to control the fur naces and chemists to control the ma terial put in ard the product taken out The same can be said in the man. ufacture of sodium. carborundum an6 all other electrochemical products Furthermore. each one, of these in dustries involving as they do large amounts of power. inherently demand the attention and cooperation of cen tral station men. Electrochemical loads are in many instances "A hoursa-10( per cent power factor loads and con seGuently most desirable to the cen tral station.
 An electrochemist Is a cosmopoHte