DREAMS OF MACHINE

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1934, Page 10

DREAMS OF MACHINE

AND THEN CREATES IT. Professor C., V. Boys, the inventor of scientific apparatus, astonisheil a gathering of experts at the Impeerial College of Science, South Kensington, When: he ‘said that he had seen in a dream a. new instniment for measuring the'value of gas used for .public cebgumption and had .since created it, rehorfs' the' “Daily Mail.” Professor Boys said: “On May 4 last year I had a dream in which I saw and realised the working Of something which filled me with excitement.

“I rose at 6 o’clock next morning, rushed round to my laboratories in Victoria Street, and in a few minutes I had started to put my dream into concrete form.” .<

Pointing to a machine which was working by'his side,'he said:. “‘That was tho result of my vision after .months "of- work.” The audience df distinguished scientists focused their attention bii a revolving wheel in the machine which was described to them for the first Time, and Professor Boy’s revelations ( were, punctuated with round upon, round of applause. "This new instrument is designed to last for ever,” the professor said. "As far as I can see, there is nothing on this machine that can wear out. It is I foolproof and can be manipulated with the very slightest amount of power, it: costs little to run and little to make.” I Professor A. 0. Rankiiie, president' of the Physical Society, told a “Daily. Mail” reporter: “The revelations are suyh .hat until We have had time Io consider them it. is difficult, to estimate the enormous value of the invention.”