INVISIBLE OBJECTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19914, 17 June 1936, Page 4

INVISIBLE OBJECTS.

HUNGARIAN INVINT. RAY. “ L’ONDON, Ma 14. In a little studio ofl High gallium, London, I emulated Mr H. G. Wells’s “Invisible Man” yesterday, says a " Daily Mail ’ ' correspondent. I saw my hand vanish into thin air. I grasped the invisible fingers with my other hand—and that disappeared, tool Then, while I gazed in astonishment ‘ my hands slowly re-appeared. The man responsible for this amazing ‘demonstration was Mr Stevn Pribil, twenty-five year old Hungarian inventor, who has come to this country wiLn his latest invention—an “Invisible Ray” machine. Mr Pribil made various objects vanish before my eyes. On a miniature stage, brilliantly lit, he placed a radio set. Then he directed the invisible rays upon it. Slowly the outer casing of the set began to disappear, until nuthing was left but the inner parts—yet all the time the set continued play mg. A small model of a wagon drawn by two horses was then placed on the stage. The my machine was set in operation. From a small box tlttcd at the back of the stage, there was a faint buzzing sound, and suddenly, at the head of the two model horses, a third horse appeared from nowhere. Mr Pribil told me his invention is the result of years of experiment. “When I was a boy of fourteen " he said, “I read Mr Wells’s book, ‘The Invisible Man,’ and determined that I would find out the secret of rendering objects invisible to the human eye. Year after year I worked on the machine, until, in 1932, I achieved surcoss. Now lam going to commercialise the machine. A well-known British firm has bought the rights, and the machine will be used in window dis plays to attract people. I cannot tel.“ you the secret of my invention. All I can say is that it is a combination of certain light rays which I manipulute." Mr Pribil is engaged in perfecting a larger machine with which he will make a man disappear entirely.