NEW INVESTMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1933, Page 3

NEW INVESTMENT

BROADCAST ELECTRICAL ENERGY

A WONDERFUL DEMONSTRATION

VANCOUVER, January 3

A message from 'Midway, Ontario, rtntps that Frank Fedy, twenty-two, a former .insurance salesman, to-day. claimed success for hi.s- invention to broadcast electrical -energy, .following a ■demonstration of power transmission through a nul e >and a half of space. Fedy, who still guards the secret of his apparatus, picked up power in h's father's store from a transmitting station in a farmhouse, and lighted thi© «tcvre. Fifty persons witnessed the demonstration. FfidyV, partner, Ted Ho-eli, was stationed in the farmhouse, where there was no electrical wiring, nv radio, and no' telephone. , In a darkened room of the store, Fedy began to work. ■ .Suddenly .there was a 'buzzing, then (lights . flickered, slowly, brightening., and than the room was flooded with light. Fedy then davlvyeed the room, and relighted it again. There is .a transmitter aerial, similar to th 0 radio antenna and receiver Fedy rlainv that the receiver can he irwwmf act tired , cheaply for ;h ; >»v?oKota use, and after improvemevt, the unparntus r"Ti,bo used to heat house s as well as light them. The Ontario Hvdro Comm’Ss'on he raid, ask°d him to himrelf and tlm invention.<at th-’r Td r o"Ti) offices. Many letters offering financial backing have been .received.

Fecly plans to cbr t'nim th-> o\'p'r : - mor.ts, then attempt to pin*? the sn’ts Ip-fore men. qualified to judge* tlm possibilities. -

'During the demonstration, Fedv worked from a control board upstairs. Altogether, twenty lamps were lighted, representing th, ft consumption of a thousand waits.