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Salone Student Invents New Phone Charger

Author: Mohamed K Senesie SEM

Emmanuel James, a Sierra Leonean student in the Makeni Polytechnic Institution has made a breakthrough in modern technology by inventing a device that charges mobile phones without the use of mainstream electricity current.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Sierra Express Media in Makeni, Emmanuel James said he was inspired as a result of the lack of electricity especially in the rural areas for phone owners to maintain an effective communication system.

“I am a victim of the high cost of charging a mobile phone by paying at tele-centers where stand-by generators are used to generate the electricity and that is why I decided to use the knowledge gained in my science lectures to try my hand at inventing this device,” the young inventor said.

Giving a brief description of how he arrived at his final discovery, James said while engaged in his experiments, he had discovered that our local bank note, the Leone, can be used together with two component circuits in between the two circuit’s poles terminal to produce electricity. “The description might be hard to describe to the ordinary mind of a non scientist, but it is a basic theory that is not difficult to assemble the components,” he said.

Already, the invention has made James a household name in the city of Makeni because of his ground breaking invention.

Residents of Makeni are said to be clamoring to try the new technology which is said to be cheaper and acts faster as against the use of electricity from generators.

“Charging a phone using this technology discovered by James is cheaper and faster as it charges within the shortest possible time.

The government is yet to acknowledge the invention and to compensate, the young inventor. A senior government officer in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology who pleaded anonymity said although all the policies about technology in the country are made in theory, there is no evidence in practical. “Here is a young man who has invented such a ground breaking discovery and there is still no support and this is not the fist time talent is being discouraged in this country, and not recognized” he said.

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