SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13751, 26 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 was looked upon with suspicion, and if tha invention proved to be exceptionally clever the inventor ran a serious risk of losing his liberty or of being burned at the stake on a charge of witchcraft. Nowadays, however, people are more enlightened, and anything 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 country homes. Tins lighting system has made the old method of house lighting by means ol kerosene lamps or acetylene gas quite obsolete. The plant is simple in construction, easy to operate, cheap to run, and is sold at a very low price, complete plants being obtainable from £l7 upwards. It cannot get out of order, and will last a lifetime. Over 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 £he house, by means of a small brass 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 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 tlr* "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 country people should make a point of writing to Messrs Early Bros., 157, Ft-atherston Street, Wellington, for full particulars of the "Wizard" Light before being persuaded to purchase any other form, of lighting system—there is no other 'Just as good."—Advt.