POWER IN HOME

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 2

POWER IN HOME

Ever-growing Demand

The modern range of utilisation of ele trie tower is so wide that it has lor since ceased to become a matter for spec lation. Aii a necessity, electric pow has a premier nlace in .every civilis community. ■ An astounding gap has be bridged from Faraday’s laboratory to t modern housewife's kitchen, to quote t the domestic phase of electrical devsh ment. Electricity has had jts place in Indus' for very many years compared with general usb in the home, but the fact t) it has invaded the domestic sphere to extent that it lias is perbans the great indication of its adaptability to the u of mankind. For long considered the p vinde of the expert dr the specially tra ed operative, it is now an everyday t vant of the ordinary housewife, fr whom no electrical knowledge or skill asked, or needed, in the utilisation of t remarkable form of power. It. was perhaps in the form of light that electricity first found its place the home.'or in the operation of the < mentar.v door bell. The telephone, t introduced it in an unobtrusive maur but its power to serve became more ■ pateht with the introduction of the el trie iron, the electric sauceoan or ket' the vacuum cleitner. the electric fire, a thq electric cooking stove. In thi avenues ot service it has proved its unjo qualities of cleanliness and labour s4vl'