“BRAIN WAVES"

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10313, 24 January 1927, Page 8

“BRAIN WAVES"

INGENIOUS' INVENTIONS. THOUGHT OUT BY WOMEN. Many of the ingenious devices which were shown at the second International Exhibition of Inventions in London were thought out by women. Ideas range from a girl cyclist’s device which makes cycling uphill less strenuous to a safety roundabout for children, the invention of a Brighton family. An amusing device which its feminine inventor is already manufacturing secures comfort for the sitter on a hard-backed chair. It consists of a removable lining which can be put inside a coat and can be inflated to provide an air cushion for the wearer. A rubber ring which can be fastened round pails and basins, enabling them to be set down noiselessly, was another exhibit. A girl from Canada exhibited a device which enables a kettle to be boiled by the heat from an electric radiator. It can also be applied to an electric fan, and the power which drives the fan can be made to serve two purposes. As ’ improved type of scissors, a. new pastry and cake safe, and an improved floor cleaner and -polishc are other feminine ‘‘brain waves.” One of the women inventors is Lady Strnchic. wife of Lord Straehie, the agricultural expert. She has invented a new type* of curtain hoolc which, unlike so many others, does not become unhooked at the wrong moment. Another distinguished woman intends to show a new type of net for wearing round a hat as a protection from mosquitoes. The net may also be used by beekeepers. It is reported that the advent oi stainless mirrors is near at hand, and that they will entirely supersede our present-day glass mirrors, which are made of steel and are the product of a large Sheffield firm. This fob lows shortly on the discovery of glass that, will bend, so perhaps we are within sight of the end of the numerous superstitions connected with the breaking of mirrors. A more remarkable invention for which' a patent was granted, but which it not known to have been placed on the market was a device to supersede the razor method, oi removing hair from the face. The idea was that the hair should be removed, by (minding with an abrasive roller. H was intended that the roller should l,e connected to a large pulley on a nur machine, so that the high speed "necessary for grinding could be , btainod. All that remained to >e done was for the user to move the roller up and down his taco.