Industrial notes

Westinghouse Active in Air-Conditioning Field. — Recent announcements tell of the formation of a new Air-Conditioning Department of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company which will coordinate its various existing activities and project its future activities in this field. The company´s interest in air-conditioning extends back over a considerable period and includes physiological work on comfort conditions, such as that on effects of radiant heat in its research laboratories as well as actual experimental installations of equipment. At the present time commercial equipment either now is, or soon will be available for railway car cooling; room cooling for homes, offices, and shops; low temperature radiation heaters, and steam operated refrigeration equipment for commercial and industrial applications. Among the interesting developments being carried on which have not yet reached a commercial state is that of the reversed refrigeration cycle for winter heating, and which also can be used for summer cooling as well. The plans of the Air-Conditioning Department are intended to make Westinghouse an important factor in the air-conditioning field aside from large centralized plant installations.