INVISIBLE RAY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 147, 6 June 1936, Page 12

INVISIBLE RAY

25-Year-Old Inventor’s Machine AMAZING~RESULTS (Own Correspondent—By Air Mail). LONDON, May 14. In a little studio off High Holborn, London, I emulated Mr H. G. Wells’s "Invisible Man’’ yesterday, says a “Daily Mail” correspondent. I saw my hand vanish into thin air. I grasped the invisible fingers with my other hand—and that disappeared, tool Then, while I gazed in astonishment my hands slowly re-appeared. The man responsible for this amazing demonstration was Mr Stevn Pribil, twenty-five year old Hungarian inventor, who has come to this country wiln his latest invention —an “Invisible Kay” machine. Mr Pribil made various objects vanish before my eyes. On a miniature stage, brilliantly lit, ho pluccd a radio sot. Then he directed the invisible rays upon it. .Slowly the outer casing of the set began to disappear, until nothing was left but the inner parts—yet all the time the set continued play iug. A small model of a wagon drawn by two horses was then placed on the stage. The ray machine was set in operation. From a small box fitted al the back of the stage, there was a faint buzzing sound, and suddenly, at the head of the two model horses, a third horse appeared from nowhere.

Mr Pribil told me his invention is the result of years of experiment. “When I was a boy of fourteen,” he said, “I read Mr Wells’s book, ‘The Invisible Man,’ and determined that I would find out the secret of rendering objects invisible to the human eye. Year after year I worked on the machine, until, in 1932, I achieved success. Now lam going to commercialise the machine. A well-known British firm has bought the rights, and the machine will be used in window dis plays to attract people. I cannot teli you the secret of my invention. All I can say is that it is a combination of certain light rays which I manipulate.” Mr PribiT is engaged in perfecting a larger machine with which ho will make a man disappear entirely,