AMAZING IDEAS
REVEALED AT EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS (Rec. October 13, 5.5 p.m.) • London, October 12. An array of amazing ideas was unfolded at the International Exhibition of Inventions, providing for almost every contingency. There are two hundred examples of a safety razor worked by clockwork. A safety first walking stick is shown which provides a light every time it strikes the ground, and a saucepan lid from which a bell rings at ■ boiling point. A device fixed to a piano sounding board converts it into a distortionless wireless loudspeaker. Pedestrians’ comfort while walking is considered by means of a machine of a complicated device, something like roller skates, which it is claimed has a speed of thirty miles an hour, taking ten to fifteen feet steps. There is an electric floor polisher and a clockwork toaster meter, by which toast is done light brown or dark brown, simply bysetting a dial, which of course also cuts off the current. A special non-circular motor steering wheel is designed for the comfort of fat men. The most optimistic idea is typified by cycles fitted with wings and a propeller worked by pedals to enable cyclists to fly over bad patches in the road.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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