LIGHTED BY THE WIND.
A small windmill that turns a generator provides sufficient electricity to give adequate light in every room in Mr G. Robinson's house at Sandwich, in Kent. A five-mile-an-hour wind is sufficient to revolve the two' small vanes and charge the storage batteries. The vanes are so delicately balanced on the top of a ten-foot support that the merest breath of wind will turn them round. As much more current is made than is necessary to light the eight lamps in the house, I Mr Robinson charges his wireless accumuflator with the surplus. The whole apparatus cost only £100 to iastall, and nothing has been spent since it was put up twelve months ago. So long as there is wind, electricity can bo madta
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Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 10 (Supplement)
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127LIGHTED BY THE WIND. Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 10 (Supplement)
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