SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13752, 27 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 tlio 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 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 pold in tho Dominion, one of tho most important of which is the "Wizard" Lighting System for country homes. This lighting system has made the old method of house lighting by iruwins of kerosene lamps or acetylene gan 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 email reservoir, which stands outside (g) house, by means of a small brass 1)6, which carries benzine or petrol om the reservoir to the lamps. At . ic lamps tho benzine is turned into vapour, the vapour mixes with air, and makes a gas which is burned in an im'erted 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 wjth 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 buildintrs are being fitted with "Wizard' "Lighting Systems, and count!y people should make a point of writing to Messrs Early Bros., 157, Featherston 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."—Advi.