POWER BY RADIO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 November 1927, Page 4

POWER BY RADIO

(Continued) Another great use for power by radio would be for a contractor Who finds it necessary to take electric power up a mountain side or to' some similarly inaccessible spat to begin digging a tunnell, preparing for a bridge, or carrying out? some other engineering work. Wires may be hard to maintain. Perhaps the operation Is a movable or temporary one, so that wires would Be no sooner installed than it would be necessary to remove them agiiin, tho removal being as difficult as the installation. Such situations would be a good opportunity for radio, power.- Imagine a beam-form-ing transmitter perhaps 'mounted in a motor truck or on a boat and easy to set up and operate some accessible point near a mountain side which it is required, to feed pith power. Tho contractor wheels his big' beam-gun into position, starts his oscillators and trains his beam on the spot desired and turns on the power. With no more trouble than he has "now with the light rays of a. searchlight for his night work, he carries the needed electricity to any peak,Or cliff. There are uses for the powter carrying radio ray in crossing harbours, rivers, etc., where it is impossible to place "\\(res. Although these discussions arc only possibilities of radio, it seems on the other hand that such advancements may come about. So we shall always wonder if, in years to come, all machinery, cars, cycles, boats, airplanes,'airships and trains will all take their power from j the luminous radio pqjwer-carrying beam.