ROBOT MAGIC.
FOR SAFETY OF SHIPS. LONDON, September 12. "No one need suffer , seasickness," is the claim of the iftakers of an apparatus exhibited at the Shipping and Engineering Machinery Exhibition at Olympia. Voyagers inhaling five minutes before the voyage a mixture of oxygen and medicaments from an atomiser are guaranteed complete immunity. If the mixture is taken after the symptoms are shown, an effective euro is claimed in 85 per cent of cases. The exhibits include a "magic ray," and an automatic lookout which rings a bell instantly any object, even a fogbank, crosses the ship's path. Other inventions are designed to improve the human element, including an instrument on the bridge, sensitive to the slightest smoke, for detecting fires in the hold, after which the pressure of a button on the bridge floods the hold with extinguishing gas; a pistol extinguisher claimed to be able to put out a 20ft blaze, and a fire-proofing preparation which makes woodwork proof against an oxy-acetylene flame.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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165ROBOT MAGIC. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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