Great New Discovery Claimed in Electricity
Much Power from Little
(United. Service)
Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The London “Daily Mail” says that it the claims are substantiated for a new patent which the Government is closely investigating, all present ideas about the manufacture, distribution, and employment of electricity may be* come obsolete. The inventor, Mr. William Harrison, of St. Helens, contends that he has established, contrary to all previous theories, that electricity can be amplified. This means that his apparatus, for a trifling cost, will convert a small quantity of low-power electricity into
a' relatively unlimited supply of current at high voltage, which, as the "Mqii” points out, is tantamount to perpetual motion in an electrical sense. It is stated that an average-sized villa has been illuminated over a period of months from a small accumulator the size of an ordinary wireless low-tension battery attached to Mr. Harrison’s apparatus. For existing electrical installations, Mr. Harrison’s machine, when plugging into the socket nearest the lampholder, will light half a dozen 100-watt or 200-volt lamps for the cost of the original one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 11
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181Great New Discovery Claimed in Electricity Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 11
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