The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-10
Cars Magnetic liotoe.

Cars Magnetic Motor.
, With N ordinary horsssboe nsen~
! . biz of 81 iroo,aad scounnon sang3o
nail, apaeisa inveusss,~ No u ycns
has been pondering over ,he power "
ing dorman; in the magnet, now dem
onstrs;es as his discovery . fac. Of Ii.
utmoss importance i6m8setie sesaes,
which has hitherto escaped the observ..
ton OF both scientists and prac;ica.
electricians, namely, IL existence Of 9
neutral line in;he magnetic field linz
where the polarity Of Al induced mag
net osase sand bsyond ~hish Il changes.
With equally simple appliances be
shows the practical utilization Of hi.
discovery n such . way Is TO produces
q magnetic mo,er, thus opening up Q
~bewildering prospect Of the possibilitie,
before Us in revolutionizing the presen,
methods of motive ppver through tn
substitution Of . wonderfully cheap and
safe agent. BY bis achievement Mr..
Wesley w. Gary has quite upse, the
theories Of nagne,is philosophy hitler.
TO prevailing. and iifrsd magnetism on,
from among the static forces where sci.
ence has placed it, to the position Of q
dynamic power. The Gary Magnetic
Motor, the result Of Mr.. Gary's long
years OF study. is, in . word, . simple
.eontrivance which furnishes its own
power, and vill run until worn ont By
the forcs Of friction. coming dangerous
ly near r. that awful bugbear, perpetu.
q motion. -.
At Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Mr..
Gary made his first practical demon
stration, and allowed his discovery to
be examined and the fact Published. lie
had long been satisfied, from his exper-
iments, that if he could devise q "cut-
off," the means Of neutralizing the IT.
tractive power Of a stationary magnet
on another raised above it and adjusted
on a pivot, unlike poles opposite, and
so arrange this cutoff a. to work au-
tomatically, he could produce motion
in a balanced magnet. To this end he
persistently experimented, and Il was
only about four years ago that he made
the discovery, the key to his problem,
which is the basis of his present motor.
and upsets our philosophy. IN expert
menting one day with q piece OF soft
iron upon . magnet he made the dis
covery Of the neutral line and the change
of polarity, not then recognizing its sig.
niicance, being absorbed entirely by
the discovery of the neutral line opened
up to him. Here was tie point for bis cut
off. For while he experimental entire
ly With batteries, but in September, 1874,
he succeeded in obtaining a movement
independent of the battery. In June,
the following year, Mr.. Gary exhibited
this continuous m0ysmens6o . numbsr
of gentlemen, protecting bimsst by
covering the cut, of with copper SO as to
disguise the real material used, and
prevent any one from robbing him Ol
his discovery. The publication In the
local newspapers Of the performance Of
the little machine, which was copied far
and wide, excited much interest. But
the inventor was BY no means satisfied.
He had succeeded iRsecuring a continu-
ous motion but not q practical motor.
He had invented a unique plaything
but not a machine that would do mans
work. So he made further experiments
in one direction and another, using for
a long time the battery; and it was not
until after he moved to Boston (Which
was about two years ago. that he was
convinced that the points in the
change of polarity, with which he wa
SO little impressed when he first hit
upon them along with his discovery Of
the neutral line. were tho true ones to
work upon. Thereafter his progress
was most rapid, and in a little while he
had constructed working models, not
only to his own satisfaction, but to that
of those experts who had the fairness
to give q critical and thorough
examination, clearly demonst-at-
ing his ability to secure mo-
ton and power, as they had never
before been secured, from ~,self-feeding
and %self-acting machines. His claim,as
he formally puts it, is this: 81 have dis
covered that a straight piece Of iron
placed across the poles Of 3 magnet, and
near to their end, changes its polarity
while in the magnetic field and before L
comes in contact with the magnet, the
fact being, however, that actual contact
Is guarded against. The conditions are
that the thickness of the iron must be
proportiOned to the power of the mag.
net, and that the neutral line, or line Of
change in the polarity of the iron, Is
nearer or more distant from the magnet
according to the power of the latter and
the thickness of the former. My whole
discovery is based upon this change Of
polarity in the iron with or without o
battery" Power can be increased to
any extent, or diminished, by the addi.
ton or withdrawal of magnets.
Mr.. Gary is forty-one years old, hav.
ing been born in 1887. During the
years devoted to working out hin prob-
lem he has sustained himself by the pro-
ceeds from the sale Of 4 few useful in
ventions made from time to time when
he was forced to urn aside from his ex.
periments to raise funds. From the sale
of n of these inventions--a simple
thing-he realized something like ten
thousand dollars. e. II. Bacon, in Hor.
per's Magazine for March.
sEALLM EAsLEYiS1a ttGndaut IN tie
Longview Insane Asylum, in Cincin-
na.i. She deems it necessary, in the
performance Of her duties, = stlike the
natienfs WITH har8sfs. Shai IA low suf.