SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 184, 24 April 1918, Page 6

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

HOW THEY ARE ADVANCING.

Not many years ago anything in the form of an invention or labour-saving device was looked upon with suspicion, and if the invention proved to be exceptionally clever the inventor ran a serious risk of losing his liberty, or of being Jnirned at the stake on a charge of witchcraft. Nowadays, luwever, people are more enlightened, and anything that tends to increase the general standard of comfort or lighten i: an's labour is hailed with delight, and ihe fortunate inventor is honoured as a public benefactor

Scores of patented articles are at present being sold in the Dominion, one of tho most important of which is the "Wizard" Lighting System for country homes. This Lighting Systsni has made the old method of houso lighting by moans of kerosene lamps cr acetylene gas quito obsolete. The plant is simple in construction, easy to iperate, cheap to run, and is sold at a very low price, complete plants being obtainable from .£l7 upwards. It cannot get out of order, and will last a. lifetime. Over -1000 homes in Now 'Zealand are being made bright and cheerful by the "Wizard" Light. The lamps in the various rooms are connected with a small reservoir, which stands outside the house, .by means of a small bras? tube, which carries benzine or petrol from the reservoir to the lamps. At the lamps tho benzine is turned into vapour, tho vapour mixes with air, and mokes a gas which is burned in an inverted gas mantle, just tho same as coal gas, except that the "Wizard" Light is softer, whiter and cheaper. "Wizard" Lamps are patented in New Zealand and all foreign countries, so they cannot be copied, but, as with all other successful patents, other lamps nro being sold that are something lib.* the "Wizard" in appearance, but aro not fitted with the special patented features which makes the "Wizard" Light such n wonderful success. Government post offices and wireless stations, banks, schools, colleges, churches, halls, stores and every description of buildings are being fitted with "Wiitard" Lighting Systems, ami country peoplo should make , a, point of writing to 51'fssrs. Early Bros., 157 Feathor«ton Street, Wellington. _for full particulars of (he "Wizard" Ligha before boiii? persuaded to purchase any other form of lighting sysfcnwfliorp is no other "Just es good." --Advt.