Electric Light for the Poor.

Manawatu Herald, 19 March 1904, Page 2

Electric Light for the Poor.

Mr Edison is not a man given to making startling promises which do not result in performance, so that his claim of having solved the problem of generating electricity at a trifling cost for common use may b« accepted as the announcement of an accomplished fact. And such a fact is little less than a miracle, for it means the production, at will, of an almost limitless and widely adaptable power. The electrical generator which Mr Edison has perfected after years of toil derives its power from a so-called fuel of marvellous potency. It will enable the day labourer, as well as the millionaire, to light hia home with electricity and have some sort of a motor vehicle. For a few cents a day light and power may be produced in sufficient quantity to supply the needs of any family, and the generator is so simple that any person of ordinary intelligence can act as engineer. In the inventor’s own words, “ You can wire your house for electric bells, telephone from room to room, or for anything electricity will do, and the batteries in your automobile will operate them. The coat is so trifling that it is not worth mentioning. It has always been my ambition to bring the uses of electricity within the reach of men of moderate means.” Mr Edison states there is much work to be the harvest he has sown canrfae reaped. But the invention is perfected, and the problem ‘of cheap electrical generatidh solved.