CHEAP ELECTRICITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 14

CHEAP ELECTRICITY.

AMPLIFICATION PROCESS.

CLAIMS OF THE INVENTOR.

CURRENT SUPPLY UNLIMITED.

United Service. ( LONDON", Nov. 11. The Daily Mail states that if the claims are substantiated for a new patent which tho Government is closely investigating nil present ideas about tho manufacture, distribution and employment of electricity mav become obsolete.

.Tho inventor of the new process is Mr. William Harrison, of St. Helens. He contends that ho lias established, contrary to all previous theories, that electricity can be amplified. Ho says his apparatus for a trilling cost, will convert a small quantity of low-power electricity into a relatively unlimited supply of current at high voltage.

As tho Mail points out this would be tantamount to perpetual motion in an electrical sense. It is stated that an averagesized villa has been illuminated over a period of months from a small accumulator the sizt. of an ordinary wireless low tension bat'cry attached to Air. Harrison s apparatus.

i-'oi existing electrical installations Mr. Harrison says his machine, when plugged into a socket very close to a lamp-holder, will light half a dozen lamps for the cost ot the original one.