WIRELESS POWER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11834, 16 January 1933, Page 3

WIRELESS POWER

INVENTOR CLAIMS SUCCESS

TJGHT FLOODS ROOM

MTDMAY (Ont.l, January 4

The broadcasting of electrical energy is claimed to have boon demonstrated successfully by the inventor of-a. now apnaratus. Frank Fedy, aged 22, a former insurance salesman.

Fedy gave a demonstration of power transmission through a mile and a-half of space. He picked up the power in his father’s store from a transmittino- station in a farmhouse and lighted the .store. Fifty persons witnessed the demonstration. Fedv’s partner, Ted TTesch, was stationed in the farmhouse. where there was no electrical wiring. no radio nnd no telephone. Tn a darkened room of the store Fedy began to work.

Sucldenlv there u .as a buzzing noise: (lien the lights flickered and slowl> brightened. Next,, the room was flooded with light. Fedv then darkened the room and lighted it again. There are a transmitter and an aerial like those of a radio aerial and receiver. Fedy claims that the receiver can he manufactured cheaply for household u.se and that, after improvement, the apparatus can be used 1o heat houses as well as light them. WILL IMPROVE TT. The Ontario Hydro Commission, Fedy states, has asked him to present. himself and his invention at their Toronto offices, and many letters offering financial hacking have been received. Fedy plans to continue his experiments; then to attempt to place the results before men qualified to judge of the possibilities. • During..the.:. ‘demonstration, -Eed.v worked from a control hoard upstairs Altogether, 20 lamps wore lighted, representing a consumption of 100’ watts. “YEARS YET.” AUSTRALIAN EXPERT'S VIEW. SYDNEY. Jan. 5. /‘At present you can light, a lamp from any radio .station .if you got near enough to it,” said the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia), Ltd. (Mr..E. T. Fisk). ‘'Transmission of power.” lie added, “is a matter of degree, but, while I. consider its full development to he a certainty of the futnye. I do not expect this to he accomplished for many years. It will then be possible for a liner to go to sea, without fuel, hut whether the use of this power will serve a useful purpose on land is another matter.

“This young man’s claim .means that the copper leads used for iryns.initting light and power could lie dispensed with, hut there, would be a loss of power if these agencies for concentrating power were not used.

“Very eminent men have failed to solve this problem, and I am not inclined to believe that this, young man has succeeded where they have failed,” added Air. Fisk. Other electrical engineers pointed out that 30 years ago electrical, energy had been transmitted through space and used to light vacuum tube lamps, but experiments so far had shown that there was. a.great waste of current, owing to its diffusion between the sending and receiving points.