COOKING WITH COLD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 140, 28 May 1928, Page 9

COOKING WITH COLD

RAY WAVE MIRACLES, DISCONNECTED BULBS LIGHT. An electric light bulb lit without wires or socket, food cooked by invisible means, and the blood pressure of specatatoi's raised to near dangernoint—these were some of the “miracles of ray-waves” demonstrated in the laboratory of Schenectady of the General Electric Company. A New York correspondent writes; “The mere presence in a room of an innocuous-looking vacuum tube, set down in a wooden cage and surrounded by a network of wires, caused an incandescent bulb, taken from its cardboard box for the first time to light to full brilliancy without wires or socket A Neon tube was caused to flood the place with a red glow when merely touched bv a spectator. Then a naked and unattached copper bar lying on the floor became mysteriouslv alive. There was no change in its appearance, but a daring visitor being warned and challenged to pick it up. did so, but dropped it again as if it were redhot. He thought it was hot, and his fingers were slightly blistered, but the bar was as cold as ever. EGGS AND CAKES. A wire was suspended over a table. To it was hung a glass tube ing a sausage. In a few minute s the sausage was done to a turn by inducting currents received through space. Then eggs were fried; little cakes were hawed and waver wa s brought to the boil. But most striking ot all the shortwave effects was when the end of a Hadiating aerial was touched with a metal-tipped pole. Immediately a greenish-white arc, representing thousands of volts, rose to the height of a foot or more. When the pole was removed .the arc remained like a plume of fire Persons within the orb of the tube’s activity experienced a feeling of warmth followed by pain s in the limbs and joints.

Medical observations were made Several men were placed near enough to the radiating antennae to make measurement changes in bodily temperature possible. It was found that blood pressure rose so much within 15 minutes that the experimenters dared not allow the action to continue further.