Flies' Dreadful Fate
RE you troubled with. flies? If so you" might welcome the invention which BBC reporter Thomas Cadett saw at an exhibition in Paris, and described in "Radio News Reel." It was a fly catcher which hangs from the ceiling and has a coiled metal stem ending in a metal bowl that looks rather like a lamp. The idea is that flies land on the stem and ‘get a severe electric shock. This makes them faint and they fall into the bowl itself. And then there is no hope for them, for in the bowl is a red hot coil, which first kills and then cremates the fly BBC London Letter.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 19
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113Flies' Dreadful Fate New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 19
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