Student in new invention:

Compass to draw elipse

Amila Prabath WANASINGHE

D. M. Thisara Madushan Bandara, a promising Grade 13 mathematics student of Anuradhapura MMV has invented an extraordinary compass which can be used for drawing an elipse with ease.

It is extraordinary because the normal compass found in boxes of instruments can be used to draw only circles.

A student takes nearly 20 minutes to draw an elipse utilising instruments in the normal box of instruments. Madushan Bandara, a resident of No. 19, Galewela Road, Galnewa has obtained a distinction for the mathematics subject at the GCE Ordinary Level Examination. The encouragement offered by his teachers had helped him to make his new invention. Madushan says his compass can be used to draw any type of elipse. He said his invention received a presidential award and a patent right winning first place in the Junior section of the 2010 Inter school new inventions competition.

If a business institution wished to fund him he was prepared to produce it on a commercial scale for the benefit of students the world over.

Thanking his principal Mrs K. P Menike Jayasena and staff including Mrs Champika Kumari Ratnayake for all assistance given as well as Tharanga Gunaratne, a teacher attached to Galnewa for helping in his studies said he has also made several other new inventions including a remote control fishing gear, chillie chopping machine and an electricity metre.