WORLD WILL BE CHANGED

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 6

WORLD WILL BE CHANGED

WHEN THE DAY OF WIRELESS POWER ARRIVES GREATEST DISCOVERY OF ALL FACTORIES WITHOUT FURNACES; HOMES WITHOUT DRUDGERY By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Australian and New Zealand Cable Association. (Received September 22, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, September 21. Professor A" .W. Low, in the “Daily Express,” foreshadows a revolution in social life by means of wireless. A movement which already has been initiated in the laboratories of the world will in a few years result in the establishment of an era of wireless power, in which the world will work and play by means of electrical energy, distributed by mammoth wireless power-stations. The nations will be served by a series of stations, each a mile in area, which will provide power for everything. Factories will have no furnaces, and trains no locomotives, and ships will move by wireless. f The same source will also give ships direction and times. Motor-wagons and airplanes will be engineless, and hemes will be run without drudgery, as cooking and other services will depend on power which will be broadcast by wireless. When the day of wireless power transmission arrives, Britain will be able to draw cheap power from the waterfalls of Norway or Niagara. Factories will no longer be built near ground containing fuel; instead, they will be built all over the country. In New York cables will be laid which will radiate power to electrically-operated motor-cars on roads, through meters hired from the Government stations? In the homes, cheap power will make American labour-saving devices generally available in Britain, which devices are confined to the rich to-day. We know little about artificial light, says Professor Low, though it is the outstanding commodity, dividing civilised peoples from savages. The efficiency of the best electric lights to-day is only 2.\ per cent. Lighting in the future will certainly be by wireless.

The great railways are also still in the steam age, and only differ in mechanical conception from the days of Stephenson. The electrification of England can be made to provide employment for millions, and coal areas will be abolished. Parts of the world now inaccessible to civilisation will become necessary for the increasing population, and heat will be broadcast from them, as the Niagara Falls now supply means of life to scores of towns.

Moreover, wireless will change the social conceptions, of the people. Can we justly blame women for resenting the drudgery of the household (he asked), or blame those who object to being forted to do menial duties, when they know, as they will know, that they can have those duties easily performed by a motor and a length of electric wire?

. Wireless has already shown what science can do, when backed by capital. There is no longer an excuse for neglecting electrical research in Britain.

_ Wireless no longer means pretty music, and stories by uncles. It is becoming an invention likely to eclipse the invention of the locomotive or the steamship. It is essential that the nation should broaden its vision, and spend money on laying the foundation of future prosperity.