WORLD ACHIEVEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12824, 19 August 1939, Page 2

WORLD ACHIEVEMENTS

A HOT MEAL ANYWHERE Looking at some of the great achievements of mankind, we have seen mighty buildings and vast engineering feats, discovered by. daring pioneers, and inventions by men who' have proved to he benefactors of the human race. Amid much ’’that has been spectacular —from bi'idges to electrical machines, from stars to new cures for old ills — I we may turn aside for a few minutes to notice a very humble achievement, one which may easily make you exclaim: “Why ever didn’t I think of it myself?”

Nothing could be simpler, hut we had to wait till a couple of years ago before it became a reality.

The invention enables you to have a hot meal anywhere, anytime, in any cireifmstances. If you are two miles from the North Pole you , can have a plate of steaming soup, even though you have no. primus stove, no: lamp, no fire, no match, no burning glass, no electric battery. Up in the air, down in the mine, in your lodgings at three in the morning, when you are picnicking, in the car anywhere and everywhere, here is a hot meal when you want it.

All you have io do is buy a tin of soup. It is really two tins, a smaller one inside a larger one. In the smaller one'is the soup. In the larger one are two compartments, one with water, the other with unslaked lime. When you want a hot meal, you puncture a hole in the unslaked lime so that the water seeps in, and the"heat generated soon brings the soup to boiling point. Simple, isn’t it?