DREAMS OF MACHINE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19833, 23 June 1934, Page 18

DREAMS OF MACHINE

AND THEN CREATES IT. Professor C. V. Boys, the inventor lof scientific apparatus, astonished a I gathering of experts at the Imperial i College of Science. South i.ensington, J when he said that he had seen in a J dream a new instrument for measuring the value of gas used for public conj sumpticii and had since created it, » j ports the “Daily Mail.” : Professor Boys said: “On May 4 last j year. I had a dream in which I saw and ■ realised the working of something j which filled me with excitement. | “I rose at 6 o’clock next morning, ! rushed round to my laboratories jn { Victoria Street, and in a few minutes I I had started to put my dream into j concrete form.” j Pointing to a machine which was ! working by his side, he said: “That > was the result of my vision after j months of work.” | The audience of distinguished sciehj tists focused their attention on a reI volving wheel in the machine which | was described to them for the first ; time, and Professor Boys’s revelations ! were punctuated with round upon round of applause. “This new instrument is designed to last for ever,” the professor said. “As far as I can see, there is nothing on I this machine that can wear out. It is ; fool-proof and can be manipulated with j the very slightest amount of power. |lt costs little to run and little to j make.” | Professor A. O. Rankine, president | of the Physical Society, told a “Daily I Mail” reporter: “The revelations are such that until we have had time to consider them it is difficult to estimate the enormous value of the invention.”