Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-29
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
Perpetual Electric Generator and En-.
CINE Invented After Thirty
Six Years OF Toll.
ID. NJ. Cook of Ohio Is About Ready 20
start an Electrical Siaohtae that
win Never stop.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
For half century ID. NJ. Cook has bee
familiar figure ia Richland county, an
has been marked for his singular invent
i've genius. In 1850, when young man
he became impressed with the wonder
OF electrical science and then became en-
amored Of It's study. He began to delv
into the unknown OF this hidden force ant
for thirty-six years in alternately brillian
and adverse circumstances has troddel
over this field till there is no nook o.
corner with which he is unacquainted
lie commenced his studies at tim,
when little was known Of electricity anc
by a pursuit of knowledge ia that dl
rection with unbounded zeal he has NOT
only kept apace with the wizards of the
day, but has so got In advance of
them that his assertions are almost nc.
cepted as altogether incredulous.
But no matter whether his claims
seem wonderful and almost beyond be.
lief, they are worthy of credence, for he
must be placed in the list Of successful
inventors. In 1862 he conceived and
constructed device that reyolutlonized
the manufacture of sorghum syrup. The
device was called an eVaporator and
was used to make syrup from sorghum.
His principle was to run the Juice across
a heated surface In Zg-zag rows till the
Juice would pour out as a pure syrup
ready for the table, the water being
evaporated In its passage and the i'm
puritles being thrown to one side. On
this he received letters patent in 1858,
and In 1853 a company began the man.
niacture OF the same. Thousands and
thousands were disposed of, VARYING i'm
price from S26 to $1,000, over 81, O0O,-
600 being realized, on which the In.
yentor gotta handsome royalty Through
TINS ne derived quite fortune, although
a portion OF 1t he spent in improving and
introducing the Device Even to this
day firm In Cincinnati is engaged
IN the manufacture Of this same
evaporator, from which the members
OF the hrm made themselves rich. Cook.
however, several years ago lost his right
10 royalty by some means or other and
has not been drawing anything from that
source since.
Save for this slight diversion Mr.. Cook
has not experimental in any field outside
OF electricity since thirty-six years ago to
any considerable extent, but In this direc.
tlon he can be said TO have spent tho
greater part of his life.
For while he sought to solve the cues.
ton OF cheap power, light, etc =, bv pro-
duclng the proper current by means of a
ha'tery. He invented battery of pecuI-
lar value for telegraph purposes, which
was M use for long time at Crestline ON
the Western Union and until the dlscoy-
cry Of the cheap gravity battery that Ia
now In use. But Mr.. Cook long ago con.
eluded IN his own mind that In dynamite
electricity lay future success, Accord.
inglY he cast aside the battery as Soc
ondary affair and set about to expe rlment
with dynamos OF novel and peculiar CON.
struction, N0H
For several years past he would occas.
ionally meet me and speak OF his discov-
cries In the electric field, but would sav
mat he had not yet secured the result he
was after. He would tell me:
when getmy experiments completed
want to show you what will reyolntion.
lie the world. | propose to make
perpetual electric generator, or motor,
which will propel itself by its own cur.
rent, the resistance of the generator
proper being only about 10 per cent. Of
The rotary power OF the electric engine !
upon which the current OF the generator
acts.n
This assertion was sufficient to shock
an ordinary PERSONS nerves, but / nc.
cepted the statement with much allow.
ance, However, became Interested and
Kept watching results.
Last November Mr.. Cook came 10 mo
and said: 81 have at last met with sur.
cess. have found the principle that
have been hunting for SO long. can
now start dynamo TO going and 1t win
never stop, except by the wearing away
OF us own parts. Not only will II run
Itself by It's own current, but also pro-
duee power enough, according 10 the
SIZE OF the engine, to run any machinery
In the world"
perpetual motion, suggested.
more than that, he replied, "lt is
perpetual motion With only 10 per cent
OF tne force used, leaving 90 per cent. for
power 10 De utilized as Is desired. Not
only that, nut morei one helix of my DIV.
namo VIII produce light IN proportion Ia
us si1e while the other Is making the cur.
rent tlat runs the engine, 1t will serve
TO neat your house, SO that instead ~
having stoves and CRATES, little wires viii
run through your rooms, and IN vour
parlor table win be a highly FURNISHED
apparatus containing wires, etc, which
viii Keep the temperature OF the house ~
whatever point you wlsh,n
"Wnat viii be the cost to run it9n
Nothing. AS | said, start il and n
VIII goiheat power and light produced nv
one machine Tor absolutely nothlne.n
looked st him TO see il he was thara
yet and II SO, whether he was MAD IN
earnest, or Joking He laughed al my as.
constituent and said,
~ am now making a model and wSan
Tar enough along will saow Il TO Won -
The matter was not specially disonssea
atler that, although we would freouentlv
BRING up the question, uutll 4 day or two
$50, and had my serious doubts
whether ne would ever show the device
10 me. Thought OF Keolv and his Tnoto-
ana lHlt That me recruits psr. Cook pro-
iessed himself able 90 obtain ,eere sneh
that he would keep secret his machine
y he had any h order 60 mystIk INK
nupuc NY surprise may be imagInsa
therefore, when NJ. Cook came to me-
lNw 0ey ago end said az heileye
Win show you my 0lectric engine AM.
generator. am far enough along now
70 show Won how the results are accom-.
plished,n NV'
a time vas l1ed, aud at the appointed
nopr AIT, Cook cslled aud took ni6to his /
iagmi about three miles south az Mans.
ufl0. AS an e1cuee for a heavy crop AZ
weeds Ia q fine gield where hnndreas ~
bushels 81 what shnttid b.... $500, (. 4. =