WIZARD CONTROLS

Shannon News, 28 June 1929, Page 4

WIZARD CONTROLS

AMAZING DEMONSTRATION. Radio waves too small for science to measure, but estimated .to contain an actual amount of ,energy a million times less than the pressure of a fly's foot when it walks, were utilised in Chcago recently to control the entire power operations of n street ear. Tlicse experiments were maCe by Mr. Maurice J. Francill, noted radio engineer and inventor. Using four stock model De Soto Sixes at the snmo time, Francill pcrforme'd virtually every'opera tion of the automobiles that chauffeurs could have accomplished if behind the wheels. Yet at no time was any human in the cars, nor did Francill touch them with his hands during the exhibitions. in a De Soto Six Roadster Espanol, Mr. Francill, carrying his small box of apparatus, guided the motion of a Chicago electric trumear through the main streets of the city. The car carried neither motorman nor conductor. No hum tin was aboard ii. ami only a small vortical antenna differentiated it from the ordinary street cars around it.

After amazing Chicagoans bv these feats, Mr. Frnncill further \' demonstrated the possibilities of remote eon trol of machinery by radio controlling the workings of two great power plantssolely through the use of radio waves. As a result" the products of a large bakery and a creamery were made "by radio'' juid the ii«xt morimie "jvuli'o baked,brea'd," and "radio frozen" ic cream were on sale all over the c-itv.