SAFETY OF SHIPS
SEVERAL INVENTIONS “NO NEED FOR SEASICKNESS” LONDON, Sept, 11. “No one need suffer sea-sickness,” is the claim of the makers of an apparatus exhibited at thq Shipping and Engineering Machinery Exhibition at Olympia, Voyagers inhaling five minutes before the voyage a mixture of oxygen and medicaments from an atomiser are guaranteed complete immunity. If the mixture is taken after the symptoms are shewn, an effective cure is claimed in 85 per cent of cases. The exhibits include a “magic ray,” and an automatic lookout which rings a boll instantly if any object, even a fog-bank, crosses the ship’s path. Other inventions designed to improve the human element, include an instrument on the’ bridge, sensitive to the slightest smoke, for detecting fired in the hold —after which the pressure of a button on the bridge floods the hold — extinguishing gas, a pistol extinguisher claimed to be able to put out a 20ft. blaze, and a fire-proofing preparation which makes woodwork proof against an oxyacetylene flame.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 9
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