THE SEA WATER corrosion testing station at Kure Beach,1 established by the International Nickel Company in 1935, continues to provide answers to many baffling sea water and marine atmosphere corrosion problems.
Because of the great interest in the progress of the work, some 250 representatives of industry, university, and government gather for the Sea Horse Institute in early June of each year for three days of inspection and extemporaneous discussion. The deficiencies in existing information are brought out, and tests are devised for supplying the needed information.
Technical and maintenance staffs are kept busy the year around. These are reinforced periodically by the research personnel of the many participating industries and government departments.
Figure 1 shows an air view of the test basin and pump house with the eighty-foot atmospheric spray test racks to the left of the pump house and the laboratory and museum building in the upper...
