SECRET RAY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 3

SECRET RAY.

BOY INVENTOR KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS. STIIA.XGE HAI’I’E.XIXGS. Strange filings happened Io Fr.anh Manning, aged 17, an eleclriral engineer (if, Wellingborough, Xorlhanls as he worked al home on a lelevisior sei which he built on whal he, believe.ul be an entirely new principle, says the I).lily Express. As he switched mi lhe appaili I us am knell down by lhe set he was kimckec Hal. lie managed Io switch off, anc then lost consciousness. Thai was six weeks ago. Last, Wednesday lie fell uncoiisciom n lhe street. He was taken to X'orlhamplmi Hospital. When he recoverec two policemen had to hold him down Now he lies in SI. Bartholomew'; Hospital, London, and his mysterious malady is baffling specialists. Tells His Story. He is there as an “ inspection ’’ case Frank Maiming believes he has dis covered a new- combination of rays That is his secret. Last night, lying in his hopital bed Frank Manning told a Daily Expres reporter the story of his television experiments. “ I think I have succeeded in build ing a television receiving and trans nutting set on an entirely new prin ciple,” he said. “Instead of an expensive cathod ray tube, I use two little pieces o carbon, half an inch in diameter b; three inches long. Inside' the carbo; there is, of course, something else—there’s my secret. “ Those bits of carbon work irt ■ set for 50 hours, and only cost two pence each. At present they ar locked away in a safe. 1 believe I hav discovered a fortune in them. ■ "In my experiments 1 use sound ultra-violet and ultra-red .frequencies One day 1 believe 1 got in between Hr three of them. I was kneeling down The television apparatus was swilchc on. « Knocked Flat.” “ Then I was knocked flat. M head seemed to spin round. As 1 fol 1 reached for the main switch am managed to turn it off. 1 lost con sciousness. “ Two or three nights afterward 1 thought I would try the same thin I thought I would try the same thin “ 1 stood him in the path of th rays for live minutes. When I turn© them off he still stood, there. He coni' not understand what I said to him he could not speak or move. “ For ten minutes he was like thii then he collapsed in a faint that last© twenty minutes- When he recovere he remembered nothing. His memor now is not so good as it was before.