The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-26
FUEL WASTED
 IN INDUSTRY

New York, Nov 26-America's postwar problems of transportation, fuel, research, power and manage ment will be discussed by leading en- gineers, scientists and educators as a part of an elaborate program an- nounced for the forty-first annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers which will be held in the Engineering Societies building, No. 9 West Thirty-ninth street. Dec. to 70, and which will be attended by more than 2,5O0 Of the nations most prominent engineers. The session of the fuel section is considered by the society as being one of the most important of the professional sections meetings to be held at that time, as the work being lution of the nations fuel problems will, it is expected, be further ad- vanced at this meeting.
 The society is conducting a nation wide research into fuel conditions under a committee, of which w. W. Polakov is chairman, appointed from
 it's fuel section. The other mem bers of the committee are D. A. Lucey, c. c. Phelps, Floyd w. Par sons F. G. Tryon, statistician of the United States Geological Survey, and Charles E. Lucke, professor of Me- chanical Engineering at Columbia University; The society t,tg does does not not fuel survey but to outline a definite policy of it's requirements to effect a fuel saving.
 Big Waste of Fuel.
 There is at present a huge unnec- essary waste of fuel in this country, according to David Moffat Myers of this city, who will discuss 'F'ue1 Con- servation' at the fuel sections meet ing. There is no industrial plant 1 in the country where 10 to 30 per cent. saving of fuel might not be eff 1 fected by common sense engineer1ng,' 1 MT. Myers said recently.
 The latest available data on the
 supply, production and use of the
 various fuels Of tn eworld, particu-
 discussed by Professor L. P. Breck- enridge, of Sheffield Scientific School,
 Yale, in an address on ''The Fuel | Supply of the World" "Distillation
 will be considered by o. P. Hood,
 chief mechanical engineer of the U. i S. Bureau of Mines, who will treat the economic factors in the distilis. i tion of fuels and will outline futuI q | fuels for expansion of the use of this Chester G. Gilbert, consulting en- gineer of Cambridge, Mass. and
 Joseph E. Pogue. formerly scientist in charge of the investigation of en- | ergy resources for the Smithsonian | Institution, will review the major
 ources of energy from the point of | view of form value, defned as an
 intangible quality expressing the
 broad applicability of the energy
 form in contrast to its theoretical
 thermal value as commonly express | ed in B. t. u. units in 'The Form 1 Value of Energy in Relation to Its
 Production, Transportation and Alp pIication." The potentiality of chem | ica1 control for purposes of multiple | production and "resource value," de- fined as an intangible quality express | ing the availability of energy in terms | of location and chemical character o1
 it's source will also be discussed p5 | Messrs. Gilbert and Pogue.
 | Discuss Transportation.
 The society's other professional sec
 tions will hold sessions at the meet l ing at which transportation will be 1 the keynote. Fred J. Miller, presi- dent of the society, will deliver the
 presidential address. The foremost i authorities in the various fields o1
 transportation, including Daniel Will | lard, president of the Baltimore X Ohio Railroad and chairman of the
 Association of Railway Executives; | Charles A. Morse, chief engineer ot ! the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific i Railroad; Colonel William Barclay i Parsons, builder of New York's sub-
 ways; Major-General Frank T. Hines
 chief of embarkation during the war
 Gustav Lindenthal, and Francis w