ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 594, 21 December 1920, Page 2

ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME.

One of the pioneers of the science of doing house work electrically was a French engineer, Mr. Knapp, and partly as a pastime, partly to show what really could be done by electricity, he built a house for himself in the town of. Troyes, in which he* exhausted his ingenuity in making, that servant do as much a possible of the work of the ordinary domestic; (says Everyday ScierßL'He was one , of the first people tHjave his boots ( cleaned by his clothes, brushed, his shaving and bath water j heated, and his food cokked by electricity; and he also made electricity his footman and butler. If you are invited to dinner by M.

Knapp, and press his front door bell, electricity asks your name, opens the daor and invites you to enter. At you place your feet on the matMnside the door it dusts your shoes, and then invites you to be seated while

your host descends to greet you. Electricity announces that dinner is ►served, and when you are seated St the table there is no other servant to wait upon the dozen oV so diners. Just in. front of the' host is a circular tray. He presses a button, and the tray sinks # down through the table and floor'io the kitchen below, .whence it reappears bearing the-soup "thereon.*. From the tray the tureen passes, slowly round the. table on a miniature electric railway, stopping at the left of each guest, so that he may help hiniself. When all have been served the tureen disappears, and the tray fetches the succeeding ccurses.in turn, down to the coffee and cigarettes. * .