Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-15
A GREAT INVENTION
SAID TO FAVE BEEN PERFEOIED BY A
WHEELING NAN
30 Has Devised an Electric Generator Which Runs
Without tie Aid Of Steam, and Which is
Pronounced a Good Thing By
Competent Paopla

For years past electrical engineers
have dreamed OF an ideal electric gen.
orator which could be run without the
cid Of steam or other power, aud which
would extract from that great natural
reservoir Of electrical energy, the earth,
a portion Of its vast power and trans
form il into light, heat and power to
meet the requirements Of the human
race. More than O1e inventor has
turned his attention more or less seri-
ouslY 10 this great problem, the success
full solving Of which meant IN
dying fame aud vast wealth
for the lucky individual, while
theorists and authorities on two hemis.
pneres have wrote learledly and dis
cussed al length both for and against
the proposition that such device was
even a possibility. The class Of electri-
clans who take very advanced ground
as 70 the possibilities Of that particular
department OF knowledge, hold that an
automatic ele",S7-A generator is not
imp0sES,5, z0d that 10 is "bOund 70
cSa4r, along with telegraphy without
wires TO Europe aud Africa, and eIectri-
cal transmissiOnS OF photographs, en-
cravings, plans, maps ana autographic
messages, while other and perhaps less
enthusiastic and confident scientists
claim that such an idea rs an automatic
generator is an absurdity, akin 20 the
idea of perpetual motion, and an lrrl-
descent dream.
A Wheeling man, however, claims b
have solved tina problem, aGd 20 have
perfected the idea aud plan and prac-
ticaly worked out an electrical gen
orator which, requiring no machinery
20 run it, and therefore invoking no
fuel, attention or expense, will SILL gen
crate sufficient electrical energy 20 mset
nearly all present requirements and
which will 90 loug way towards filing
the want and hope 10 this line The
idea has been, 10 is claimed, submitted
20 capitalists who have an Intelligent
conception OF the value Of such al in
ventiOu, and who, st the same time, are
competent TO pass upon the merits OF
the invention, aud In two instances at
least they have approved the appliance.
One Of these capitalists offered TO sup
ply all needed cash, 10 patent the ma
chinery and put 10 on the market, but
his terms did not suit the Inventor, who
is a poor man, and were rejected. II is
now said that other and more
liberal arrangements have been
made, aud that patents covering
the invention are about TO be
applied for. The name Of the inventor
is withheld for the present, aud little
Is known Of the details OF his idea, but
a gentleman who talked with him at
some length few days ago is authority
for the statement that the plan seems
70 be a practicable ore, at least up TO
generators Of twenty-five or fifty b. ..
capacity, and that the appliance seems
90 De admirably adapted for furnishing
light and heat for residences, business
houses, offices and factories, for driving
light machinery, running elevators,
pumping water, etc. ALI that could %
learned of the details was that heavy
weight, from q few hundred pounds
up 20 tons, according to the capacity OF
the plant, figured prominently In the
idea, from which 10 is deduced that the
slow fall OF the weights acts upon
train Of wheels, properly geared, to give
a high rate o. speed for a limited num-
Der OF hours TO a dynamo or generator
OF the usual form, and that by other
gearing the weight or system Of weights
is wound up once or ofteHer each day,
as may be required.
Whether or not the idea is Of any con-
siderable commercial value, is uncertain
az this time, but those who have access
20 the plans, etc., appear 10 be con-
WINGED OF its utility.