SPEED AND COMPACTNESS

Evening Star, Issue 20317, 28 October 1929, Page 14

SPEED AND COMPACTNESS

WONDERS OF INVENTION i-’Aj.tj.o, October 12. A visit to the twenty-seventu annum inventors x'air wouiu suggest tiiat wnat our ago demands are speed anu compactness. • fills lair, wmcli was iOiuiueu D.y ivi. nepne, the rormer project oi ponce, i...s aiw..ys Ocou remarivaoio lor the way m winch it lias roresecn ami met vne progressive-tastes o» uiio clay, it is tlovoteu to small inventors, and cacn year represents the ncigiit of vreneii jj-geiiinty. A great placard Jiung across the exmbition hah oears tho text: “ Tho law of progress iS tne law of speed.” fcjpeea ami convenience have evidently oce»i the iheais ol most of the i,OUU inventors who are exmbiting. mere, tor instance, is a pan whicu enables one to inane a perfectly-cooKeU stew in a lew minutes, an electric apparatus which noils water in a lew seconds, and plans and materials by means or which a whole house may be constructed in a few hours. There is also a walking stick which ma- bo iransiormed into violin, and a folding bicycle which can jc carried in an ordinary suitcase. Other examples of the inventors’ mforts to meet the modern demand for things which will go into little space arc a suite of folding lurnilure widen can uc packed inside an ordinary moto. car, and a pocket wash basin and watci jug for the use of chauffeurs -imt simply an indiarubbcr outfit, but a solidly built affair relying for its portability upon the ingenuity of its design.