SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13750, 25 April 1918, Page 2

SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

HOW THEY ARE ADVANCING. Not many years ago anything in the form of an invention or labour-saving device Avas looked upon with suspicion, and if the invention proved to be exceptionally cleA-er the inventor ran a serious risk of losing his liberty or oi being burned at the stake on a charge of Avitchcraft. NoAvadays, however, people arc more enlightened, and any. thing that tends to increase the general standard of comfort or lighten man's labour is hailed with delight, and the fortunate inventor is honoured as a public benefactor. Scores of patented articles are at present being sold in the Dominion, one of the most important of which is the "Wizard" Lighting System for conntry home*. This lighting system has made the old method of house lighting by means of kerosene lumps or acetylene gas quite obsolete. The plant is simple in construction, easy to operate, cheap to run, and is sold at a very lowprice, complete plants being obtainable from £l7 upwards. It cannot get out of ordei, and will last a lifetime. Oyer 4000 homes in New Zealand are being made bright and cheerful by the • Wizard" Light. The lamps in the various rooms are connected with a small reservoir, which stands outside the house, bv means of a small hrass tulie, which 'carries benzine or petrol from the reservoir to the lamps. At the lamps the benzine is turned into vapour, the vapour mixes with air, and makes a gas which is burned in an inverted gas mantle, just the same as coal gas, except that the ""Wizard Light is softer, whiter and cheaper.^ "Wizard" Lamps are patented in New Zealand and all foreign countries, so they cannot be copied,' but, as with all other successful patents, other lamps are being sold that are something like the 'Wizard" in appearance, but are not fitted with the special patented features which make the "Wizard" Light such a wonderful success. Government post offices and wireless stations, banks, schools, colleges, churches, halls, stores and every description of buildings are being fitted with "Wizard' Lighting Systems, and countiy people should make a point of writing to Messrs Early Bros., 157, I'latherston Street, Wellington, for full particulars of the "Wizard" Light before being persuaded to purchase am other form of lighting system—there is no other 'Just as good."—Advt.