Ingenious.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7078, 25 February 1893, Page 2

Ingenious.

:L lb s r ** H,< - connera in &ntomat ic machine with Et nkn for I* the The Dublin wu proc f BB beeQ reversed. pivin» reO6IVO pennies instead of Sniw*’ The idea is this. To the pertn*m a orank 100 fcimeß the machine , one P enn y* The crank is connected ? w * fc , h a dynamo, and 100 revolutions of iae handl® manufacture aud’store a quantity of eleotrioal energy, which is to be eventually ecaued oj the owners of the machine for the purposes of producing illumination. The plan appears to be feasible enough, and it would certainly, in districts where'unemployed labour abounded, be productive of considerable good. Ko man need go in wanb of a meal who can apply himself to the machine And the invention might be capable of wide application. Why should not. every household be provided with one ? Every member of the family might, in the name of exercise, give the handle so many hundred turns a if that were possible, to provide electricity enough for the purposes of lighting. The turning of the crank might supersede dumb bell practice in the mornings, and during the summer months it might be possible to store eoough electrical energy to<

tide over the winter* From the p of the man in the street it would ins to know what income he com week by a reasonable expenditt Even if only a hundred revolutu performed in five minutes, the op be working at the rate of a shillu a Male of remuneration much in paid in some, industries invols much physical exertion.—{Elect