WIZARD CONTROLS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1929, Page 8

WIZARD CONTROLS

DR SOTO SIX BY RADIO. Radio waves too small for science to measure, hut estimated to contain an actual amount of energy a million times less than the pressure of a Hv’s foot when it walks, were utilized in Chicago recently to control the entire power operations of a street car and a number of new Clirysler-built De Soto .Sixes.

These experiments, which attracted the attention of thousands of Chicagoans, were made by Maurice J. 1' rancill, noted engineer and inventor. Using four stock model De Soto Sixes at the same time, Francill performed virtual!,! every operation of the automobiles that chauffeurs could have accomplished if behind the wheels. Net at no tim* was any human in tho cars nor did Francill touch them with his hands during the exhibitions. Riding in a De Soto Six Roadster Espanol, Francill, carrying bis small box of apparatus, guided the motion of a Chicago electric tramcar through the main streets of the city. The car carried neither motorman nor conductor. No human was aboard it and only a small vertical antenna differentiated it from the ordinary streets cars around it. After amazing Chicagoans by these teats, Francill further demonstrated the possibilities of remote .control of machinery by radio by controlling the workings of twe great power plants solely through the use ol radio waves. As a result the products of a large bakery and a creamery were made “by radio” and the next morning “radiobaked bread ” and “ radio-frozen ” icecream were on sale all over the city.