Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-08-20 | Page 15 | Any Weather Comes at Button's Touch

ANY WEATHER COMES AT BUTTON'S TOUCH LOXDOX. Aug 19. What is said to be the most up-to-date and complete ventilating s stern in the world Is that Installed in the council chain- ber of the London county council s, 4. 000. oou palace at Westminster, re-' cently opened by the king Its unique feature Is that each I member is able to control his own ' immediate atmosphere. He has tb "control" button below his desk. BO that if h is feeling cold he can make! the air that Is automatically fed to hi ma Utile warmer or vice versa without upsetting his neighbor. Apart from individual regulation, 4 0 tons of air are automatically admitted ad-mitted and extracted from the coun-i cl chamber every hour A maze of .pipes beneath the floorl of the chamber connects the air Inlets and outlets with a room full of won-' fl,-rfiil miplilnarv in tin- mh.haai . j ment including larpe but noiseless I fans, water- spray?, thermometers, dynamos, dy-namos, polished gauces and a n-:-work of brass control pipes Through the agency of this machinery ma-chinery the climatic conditions of any country in the world can bo lntr.--I duced into the council chamber and the large commlttec-room. A remarkable feature of the ventilating venti-lating apparatus is that the pffeel 6t :i sudden hangc in th Outsldi t. ic-i ic-i perature is Immediately and anto-I anto-I muticaily conveyed to the sensitive instruments in the sub-b sement, so that the promptly adjust their efforts ef-forts toward maintaining an even ti mperature Iqsidie A fall of rain on the roof or a sped of sunshine, are felt bv the in- ' struments, and they r..-i aceordingly More remarkable still is the faotl that a siiiRle n emoer coming Into the I council chamber when overhead id automatically effects the entrance ol an additional proportion of cool air to balance the minute i frdngc