WORLD ACHIEVEMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 11

WORLD ACHIEVEMENT.

A HOT MEAL ANYWHERE. Looking at some of the great achievements ctf mankind, we have seen mighty buildings and vast engineering feats, discoveries by daring pioneers, and inventions by men who have proved to be benefactors of the human race. Amid much that has been spectacular—from bridges to electrical machines, from stars to new cures for old ills—wo ' may turn aside for a few minutes to notice a very humble achievement, one which may easily make you exclaim: Why ever didn’t I think of it myself? Nothing could be simpler, but we had to wait till a couple of years ago before it became a reality. The invention enables you to have a hut meal anywhere, any time, in any circumstances. If you are two miles from the North Pole you can have a plate of steaming soup, even though you have no primus 4, stove, no lamp, no fire, no match, no burning glass, no electric battery. Up in the air, down in the mine, in your lodgings at three in the morning, when voix are picnicking, in the ear, anywhere and everywhere, here is a hot meal when you want it.

All you have to do is to buy a tin of soup. It is really two tins, a smaller one inside a larger one. In the smaller one is the sou]). In the larger one are two compartments, one with water, the other with unslaked lime. When you want a hot meal, you puncture a hole in the unslaked lime so that the water seeps in, and the heat generated soon brings the soup to boiling point. Simple, isn’t it?—(h).