SKIRMISHER

Inventor and sax player Peter Davey calls his invention the “sonic boiler” — a little device that looks like a bent lamp that can instantly boil water using sound waves. And nobody seems to know how exactly it works.

Davey, who lives in a tumbledown two-storey historic homestead called Locksley in Dallington, has been using the boiler to make hot drinks for 30 years.

He said he first came up with the concept 50 years ago and it took him half of those years to figure out how to make the device.

“The principle is beautiful. I have cashed in on a natural phenomenon and it’s all about music,” he said.

“If I hadn’t been playing the saxophone, I probably wouldn’t have come up with the idea.”

Davey noticed as he played the saxophone at home that everything resonated at a different frequency.

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