visitor sees produced, motor frames and brackets and many 
other similar parts. 
One of the most recent developments of the Westing- 
house Company in the electrical field, was the discovery 
of a new insulating material. This, it was found, was 
capable of being moulded into plates, rods or tubes. Bake- 
lite Micarta, as this substance is called, is now being used 
for hundreds of purposes in the industrial world. When 
the visitor visits the building devoted to this material, he 
will see Bakelite Micarta moulded into every conceivable 
shape for insulation material, for gear, ignition distributers 
and distributer arms, clutch bands for automobiles and 
tractors, airplane propellers and for many other purposes. 
A new plant has been purchased recently at Rochester, 
Pa., just in order to supply the demand for this Micarta. 
[t is planned to use Bakelite Micarta exclusively for fan 
blades in the future. 
If the visitor comes to the Works at East Pittsburgh, 
by means of an automobile, via the Lincoln Highway, he 
will obtain a good view of the Research Laboratories, set 
on a high hill, away from the noise, vibration and con- 
fusion that is attendant at a plant such as is located at 
East Pittsburgh. The Building, however, is convenient 
to the main works. This Laboratory is important and 
interesting because to Westinghouse Research, Industry 
owes a goodly part of its advancement in its growth, size 
and efficiency. Thousands of dollars are spent annually 
by the Company in an effort to keep in advance of Indus- 
try, sensing its needs and solving problems before the 
layman is aware of the existence of the problem itself. 
New uses are constantly being discovered for electricity, 
and almost every day brings information of a new benefit 
being conferred on mankind by the wonderful power or 
property, or whatever it may be called. Three American 
Navy airmen, who were recently lost in the far northern 
wilderness of Canada, after their helpless balloon had 
descended near Moose Factory, were saved from freezing 
to death by electrically heated garments. Had it not been 
for these contrivances, when they were battling their way 
back to civilization on dog sledges, the three frozen corpses