I don't know that I am much more of a heretic, myself. In my stories, I have admitted possibilities, and I have made suggestions. But the difference is that the professors will not be concrete, and I give instances. Keely, though there have been other experimenters, or impostors, or magicians. Pa. I take data from the New York Herald Tribune, Feb. 27-March 10, 1928.
Nobody knows what that means.
But Hendershot was backed by Major Thomas Lanphier, U.S. Army, commandant of Selfridge Field, Detroit. Major Lanphier stated that he had helped to make one of these models, which were of simple construction, and that he was sure that there was nothing fraudulent about it. It would seem that, if a simple, little contrivance, weighing less than ten pounds, were a fraud, the mechanics of Selfridge Field, or anywhere else, could determine that in about a minute, especially if they had themselves made it, under directions. But Dr. Frederich Hochstetter, head of the Hochstetter Research Laboratory, of Pittsburgh, went to New York about it. If so, even to me this would not be desirable.