NEW MAGICIAN’S WAND
An electric tube, the Kylstron, small enough to be held in the hand, is performing feats like those of a magician’s wand. Pointed at an electric lamp many feet away it lights up the lamp as if the bulb were connected with a battery and a switch turned on. The Kylstron produces this effect, and others as remarkable, by discharging electric waves only four inches long. These are quite unlike the radio shortwaves, behaving quite differently and being unable to pass through wood or other non-metals. This pecularity is employed to disperse the rays, which pour out from the Kylstron like a searchlight beam, and vibrate many millions of times a second. It almost seems as if the Kylstron were the first step to conveying power wirelessly.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 87, 17 June 1946, Page 2
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130NEW MAGICIAN’S WAND Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 87, 17 June 1946, Page 2
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