A WIRELESS ACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1925, Page 2

A WIRELESS ACE.

A YfVID FORM'AST

fAustralia A N.Z Cable Association.]

LONDON Sept. 21

Professor A. Low in the “Daily F.xpress" foreshadows a revolution in social life by means of wireless. A movement- Unit has already keen initiated, a power wherein the world will work and pay by means of electrical energy, distributed by mammoth w ireless power stations. Nations will Is’ served by a series of stations e-acli a mile in area, which "ill provide power for everything. Factories will have no furnaces and trains no locomotives. Ships will move wirelessly. The same source will also give ships their direction and times. Motor wagons and aeroplanes will be engiiK-k-s. and homes will be run without drudgery, as the cooking ami other services depending on p.owei will have tin’s all broadcasted by wire less. When the day of wireless power transmission arrives, Britain will be able to draw cheap power from the waterfalls of Norway or Niagara. Factories will no longer be built ir-ic their fuel ground. Instead they will lie all over the country. In Now York, cables will lie laid which will radiate power to elo'drically-oporatod motor cars on the roads, though meters hired from Government stations. Tu the homes, cheap power will make American labour saving dcvbos gonerallv available in Britain, which are confined to the rich to-day. He continues;—“We know little about about- artificial light, though it is an outstanding commodity, dividing the civilised peoples from the savages. The efficiency of the best electric light to-day is only two and a ball tier cent. Lighting in future will certainly be by wireless. The great railways are also still in the -team age. and they only differ in mechanical conception from the days of Stephen-

son. The electrification of Knglaitd can be made to provide employment for millions, and the coal areas will Inabolished. Parts of the world that, an now inac-. cssible to civilisation will become necessary for file increasing population, ami beat will be broadtasted from them, just as the Niagara l-'alls now supply the means of life to scores of towns. .Morever. wireless will change the social conceptions of people. Can we justly blame women for resenting the drudgery of tbo household, or those who objty t to being forced to do menial duties.’ They will know they can have these duties easily performed by a motor and a wave length of electric wire. AYireles, bad already shown "hat science can do when hacked by capital. There is no longer any excuse for neglecting electrical rcsareli in Britain. AA’ireless n.i longer means pretty music and stories by “Uncles." It is becoming an invention likely to eelir.se the itivoa lion of the locomotive or the steamship. It is essential to the nation to broaden its vision and to spend mullet on laying the foundation of future prosperity.’’