HUMAN FUSE
WIRELESS MAN’S RESOURCE. NEAV YORK, J'a.ll 23. The hands of a young radio operator were literally hands across the sea early to-dav. King George nad just commenced his speech opening tho Naval Conference in London, which was being -rec-eived by the Columbia Broadcasting Company, for tne American services, when a workman tripped across the wires , ripping them apart. Harold Vivian, the chief operator, grasped the ends of t.ie wires together in lifs hands, and restored the circuit. His arms shook with the spasms of 220 volt current, but lie held on for 20 minutes until a now connection \va K made. He was slightly burned. A .Svdney electricity expert explained that there is a very wide variation of the effect of electricity on different persons. “Some have been killed bv 110 volts, whereas ’ others have-lived after receiving a uOO-volt current through their bodies,” he said. “It is not so much the voltage,” lie explained, but the amount of electricity that the voltage forces through Hie body, that takes effect Some bodies need higher voltages than others to receive a fatal shock. The voltage of the domestic electriciron is 240.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 3
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