SENSATIONAL CLAIM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10745, 16 November 1928, Page 6

SENSATIONAL CLAIM

ELECTRICITY SAID CAPABLE OF AMPLIFICATION. UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF CUBRENT AT TRIFLING COST. ALL PRESENT IDE Ac; MAY BECOME OBSOLETE. . i United Press 4san. by El.. Tel. CopyriK&i (United Service.) LONDON, Nov. 14. The Daily Mail states that if claims are substantiated for a new patent which the Government is closely investigating, all present ideas about the manufacture, distribution, and employment of electricity may become obsolete. The inventor, Mr William Harrison, of St. Helens, contends that he. has established. contrary to all previous theories, that electricity can.be amplified. This means that his apparatus, for a. trifling cost; will convert a small quantity of loiv-power electricity into a relatively unlimited supply of cutrent at high voltage, which,- as the Daily Mail points out, is‘tantamount to perpetual motion in an electrical sense. It is stated that an average; size villa has been illuminated over a period of months from a small accumulator the size of an ordinary wireless Dow tension battery, attached to Mr Harrison’s apparatus. For existng electrical installations, Mr Ilarr rieon’s machine, when plugged into the socket nearest the lampholder, will light half a dozen ICO watt 200 volt lamps for the cost of an original one. . ~(.,*