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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 17 June 1912, Page 5

The lighthouse at Ouessant, on the Channel coast of France, is noteworthy not only for its height of 120ft, and its powerful light, but also for the wireless signals which it is to send out lhe new apparatus is designed to oiy e vibratory wireless waves so as to produce musical signals in the well-known way. Two different notes, do and sol, are used here, and they will be repeated at regular intervals, so that such signals can be easily recognised by vessels f JTS . flollOTin g this, other stations channel *** l° erected along tibe A Cincinnati packer some time ago discovered a method of curing hams bv electricity. He found that by introducing an alternative current through the pickling brine the hams could be "tired \'}J r£ mJP to -2 5 days > as against 90 to 100 by ths ordinary method. The plant generates direct current for use in var ious capacities, and a portion of it is converted into alternating current bv means of a rotary converter, to prcvide the energy used in the curing vats. GOOD INVENTIONS ARE IN CONSTANT DEMAND. The field of Invention offers splendid opportunities for gaining wealth. Simple patents properly protected, have made fortunes and will do so again. Readers with ideas are advised to peruse our free booklet "Advice to £nventors," which will be sent to any address.—Henry Hughes, Ltd., 157 Fofttherston Street, Wellington. • :U.