"Another pinch of salt, Charlie."

Althought this machine is claimed by some to be more of a molecule destructeor, the Inventors say "Six of one and half a dozen of the other."

This machine has been designed primarily to assist in operational research in connection with Ping Pong Ball Design. That this is a research problem of the utmost far-reaching importance may be clearly understood by a study of the spin conditions, viz:

and it is with all due humility that the authors put before you their solution in brief the whole problem in actual practice is that of separating the Ping from the Pong in Ping Pong balls. Unfortunately the original working model at the date of writing can only isolate the pong by the total destruction of the ping, but it is hoped that this difficulty will be resolved by the time this article appears in press.

(Several impartial observers present at secret trials held recently maintain that they detected traces of a quite distinct "ping" in a muted "phlup" which occurred when the machine was being run in an overexcited state, but as yet the designers prefer to lay no claims which may later prove false. The over-excited state referred to above is governed by the equations

The first developmental model has been tentatively named the Stanitron in honour of a member of the Chemistry Dept. without whoso help the tasks of the authors would have been considerably more difficult.

Author's Notes

We would further like to point out that those references which are available are not very precise and in view of language difficulties we do not recommend them to the lay reader.