SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1918, Page 2

SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

How They are Advancing. Not many years ago anything in th» form of an invention or labor-saving device was looked upon with suspicion, and if, the invention proved to be exceptionally clever the inventor ran a serious risk of losing his liberty or of being burned at the stake on a charge of witchcraft. Nowadays, however, people are more enlightened, and anything that tends to increase the general standard of comfort or lighten man's labor, is hailed with delight and the fortunate inventor is honored as a public benefactor. Scores of patented articles are at present being sold in the Dominion, one of the most important of which is the "Wizard" Lighting system for country homes. This lighting system has made the old method of house lighting by means of kerosene lamps or acetylene gas quite obsolete. The plant is simple in construction, easy to operate, cheap to run, and ia sold at very low prices, complete ■ plants obtainable from £l7 upwards. It cannot get out of order, and will last a lifetime. Over 4000 homes in New Zealand are being made bright and cheerful by the "Wizard" light. The lamps in the various rooms are connected with a small reservoir, which stands outside the house, by means of a small brass tube, which carries benzine or petrol from the reservoir to the lamps. At the lamps the benzine is turned into vapour, the vapour mixes with air, and makes a gas which is burned in an inverted gas mantle, just the same as coal gas, except that the "Wizard" Light is softer, whiter and cheaper. "Wizard Lamps are patented in New Zealand and all foreign countries, so they cannot be copied, but, as with all other successful patents, other lamps are being sold that are something like the "Wizard" in appearance, but are not fitted with the special patented features which make the "Wizard" Light such a wonderful success. Government post offices and wireless stations, banks, schools, colleges, churches, halls, stores, and every description of buildings are beinc fitted with the "Wizard" Lighting Systems, and country people should make a point of writing to Mr. H. H. Blake, Box fi3, Eltham. for full particulars of the "Wizard" T *<?ht before being persuaded to pur:b-.""" nnv other form of lighting system—there is no otiur "Just m Good."