Learning Geography.
BOY’S ELECTRIC MAP. An ingenious use of electricity has been devised by Mervyn Bain, a Std. VI. pupil at the St. George School, Invercargill. He has constructed a board with a map of New Zealand upon it. Instead of the ordinary indication of towns he has placed metal pieces, while in one corner of the board a list of the towns has a similar number of metal discs alongside. Ttvo terminals connect with a battery, and the student has to place one terminal on the map and the other on the corresponding disc in the corner. If he connects the right set of discs a bell will ring. As there are no names alongside the discs on the map the device can bo used either for instruction or as a test of knowledge. The contraption was the object of much interest at the last meeting of the Southland Education Board.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19572, 28 November 1935, Page 4
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152Learning Geography. Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19572, 28 November 1935, Page 4
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