WIRELESS POWER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11825, 5 January 1933, Page 2

WIRELESS POWER

TRANSMISSION INVENTION SUCCESSFUL TESTS (U.P.A. by Elec~Tel. Copyright) MIDWAY (Ontario) Jau. 3. Frank Fedy, 22, a former insurance salesman, to-day claimed success for his invention to broadcast electrical energy following a demonstration of power transmission through a r.-i.’e and a half of space. Mr Fedy, who still guards the secret of the apparatus, picked up the power in his father’s store from tire transmitting station in a farm house and lighted the store. Fifty persons witnessed the demonstration.

Mr Fedy’s partner, Mr Ted Hesch, .was stationed in the farmhouse, where there was no electrical wiring, no radio, and no telephone. In the darkened room of the store Air Fedy began work. Suddenly there was a buzzing, and then the lights flickered, slowly brightening. Then the room was flooded with light. Air Fedy then dark ened th e room and relighted it again.

There is a transmitter aerial similar to a radio antenna and receiver, Air Fedy claim 3 that the receiver can bo manufactured cheaply for household use aud alter improvement the Apparatus can bo used to heat houses as well as light them. The Ontario Hydro Commission, he said, has asked him to present himself and the invention at their loronlo office.

• Many letters offering financial backing have been received. Mr Fedy plans to continue the experiments, aud then to attempt to place the results before men qualified to judge the I>ossibilitics. , During the demonstration. Air Fedy worked from a control board upstairs. Altogether 20 lamps were lighted, representing a consumption of KOO watts.