Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-01

dy current OF electricity suitable for the light,
considerable power is required. In SIR.
Gary's machine, however, the piece of soft
iron, or armature, coiled with wire, has only TO
be moved across the neutral line to secure the
same result. Every time 1t crosses the line
it changes its polarity, and every time the
polarity Is changed a spark is produced.
The slightest vibration Is enough to secure
this, and with each vibration two sparks are
produced, Just as with each revolution in the
other method. An enormous volume can be
secured with the expenditure of very little
force. With the smallest of magnetic mo-
tors power is supplied and electricity genera
ted at no expense beyond the cost of the
machine. In a working model of a motor
exhibited, the soft iron vlbrates less than the
fttieth of an inch. The magnetic motor
would seem to settle the question Of the use
of the electric light the only serious problem
in regard to that being tie cost of power
needed to generate electricity. With one of
these little motors it would seem TO be possible
to generate all the electricity needed to light
an ordinary idwellinghouse, and the posi-
bility of dividing and distributing by means
of wires over a city from central point
where great power is needed, need not be
longer discussed. We do not see why the
little electric motor which runs sewing ma
chine In the daytime and performs other SER
vice IN the house, cannot set the cheap carbon
burners gong at night. The possibilities
opened by this discovery, if it is all that it
seems from this illustrated description, are
amazing and endless. Our watches will run
forever without winding up. Even the stem
winder, which was invented for the benefit of
persons of a cornwall turn of mind, who had
difficulty in finding the keyholes of their
watches late at night on returning home, will
no longer be needed. The expense of run
ming an elevator in large building is now
considerable; this motor will reduce it very
considerably. Our locomotive engines will
be propelled by this silent, persistent agent,
and the cheerful "devilish engineer will not
be able to howl his way through a town at
midnight, tearing the souls of sick people out
of their bodies. We shall now be able to
avail ourselves of the vast power of electricity,
which we have not been able to use on account
of the cost of generating it. The world may
fairly be said to be electrified" by
this discovery. A notable fact in this inven-
ton is that it is the result of practical expert
ment continued really In defiance of all the
electric theories of the scientists. Mr.. Wes-
ley w. Gary, now forty-one years old, was
born in 1887, the son of a clergyman in Cort-
land county, New York. His father was in
terested in electro magnetism and gave lee
lures on the subject The boys interest was
aroused, and for years he pondered on the
power that might be stored up In the mag
net. He began life as a lumberman, and it
was not until the exposure of this business
brought on inhammatory rheumatism and
laid him up, that he began lnventlng, making
a number of small inventions, some of which
were profitable and gave him means to pur-
sue his trial with the magnet. In 1874 he
first succeeded in getting motion without the
aid of battery, but now he comes forward
with his completed machine, prepared, he
says, to do a mans work In the world. The
world is very anxious tor it to begin.