Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-03-07

Invention Of a Lawyer That
May Do Iaarveis.
SUSTAINED POWER is ALLEGED,

York Aa&naons Ala 60 Perfect lt.
Fascinated BY the idea involved In o
l.odel left 10 his once, Henry Halsey,
i young eser Of New York, nearly
GEAR year ago deliberately sacrificed
ls growth practice. turned from his
briefs and asses aid forgot everything
q / study OF Ii. says the New York
ne
Now. r the years Of study. after
lie has ea led his own resources ard
with capt. pplied hy two ~friends,
le has per 81 i what IS declared to 81
] practical eianaleiaus have studied NJ
Which viii supply sustained power ard
viii re%volutionize electric motive power-
ientisi among them the foremost
electricians of the country, a commute
tee Of United states engineers ard
practical electricians have studied MIR.
Halsey's models. According to their ~.
ports there Is but one opinion, III the
battery does what 1t appears to do, It N
q wonderful invention" they say.
With a battery Of fifteen cells weigh
ing 800 pounds In an automobile Of the
runabout pattern Mr.. IIalsey has rid
den about New York for hours, with
four horsepower ready nj amy time he
might need II. He asserts that with the
same machine he can 90 to Philadel-
phia at a uniform speed OF ten miles
an hour. climb hills as steep as al ?
other automobile, stop there just lon
enough to replenish the e%lectrolyte i,
HIS cells and return 10 New York at Il &
slne rate. The cost, he declares, will
be Is cents each way,
A a recent private exhibition. In adj
dltion to the automobile. he. with -four
cells. maintained thirty small electric
lights as long as he wished. One G.
weighing less than seven pounds opes
ated by d clock work arrangement h
asserted would be In ideal sparker fo
the largest gasoline automobile maaa
and would run six hours without re
plenishing. He already has an order
for 100 cells TO be placed In the launch
Of Il New Yorker. The cells win weigh
1000 pounds when completed, will de-
yelop twenty-five horsepower LII m
emergency and win run ordinarily ten
bours before the e%lectrolyte must be
renewed.
Stripped of te%chnicalitles, the law
yer's battery Is nothing more than an
ordinary battery IN which the carbon
disk Is made 20 reyolve In the sulpiiu.
ric acid and water The zinc plates are,
80 In the common battery. stationary.
From the disk the element of power Is
taken by brushes against which It re-
wolves. These connect with posts
through which wires are passed lead
Ing to the motor.
Contrary MS 1t may appear, the motor
run by the battery in turn revoives the
disks by which the sustained power is
furnished. This was explained by MI.
Halsey.
There Is as much power in ali pri.
mary batteries as In miae,' he said.
THE only q Inference is it does not last.
The ordinary battery viii make an
electric light, 1t will run a motor. but
for a few minutes only. 1t Is this short
lived power that ! use. IN each cell the
carbon disks are coegpd. and they fit
into co ga sei5 it t. 9 TOP of tAr cell
Ia & { ain of coils TIE c0gwicels are
jo.n G Y q rcd. When tlle current Is
first tgfilta Oh Their, - power enough
to tufn tic wtaels Of the motor for
several seconds. This Of curse turns
the cogwheels, which produce the sus-
tanned power. The force Of the battery,
therefore. never dies out, The whole
idea IS simply explained thus. The pri.
mary battery which operates q doorbell
lasts. say, for six months. t simply cut
its life down TO six OF sever hours hy
the revolving brushes, gaining, there
fore, so urlch more power"
Mr.. IIalsey is about thirty-Ayc years
Of age and is a member OF a well
known Philadelphia family. He went
to New York TO practice law about ten
years ago. He prosperrd ana for sev
eral years lived at the Waiiogf As.
torla. II WIS there he met an italian
business man -four years & who told
-hin OF the invention Of o primary hat
tory by Dr. isidor kitsie Of rlliladel
phia. This man had obs iitea 40 oiiiea
Oh it and Intended to purcAasc H. no
WIS recalled TO his native iand, fayy
ever, and in departing l"ft tie mode.
With the lawyer. with Instructions TO
see what could be done MIR Tlaiycy lac
gTn to study It. He found n would
have 10 study electricity FIRST He dAl
this ard took the model 10 his foofls
a the Waldorf Astoria. Ills Bathroom
hccama Ills laboratory.
lie forgot his lfw practice ara sfent
'is slt lngs he Hiayed from TIE lfotel
~ other Quart rs. aEd hnally insi he
fought le would lavr ia gisn So he
met two N1slitly men Of Pear slNunia.
who hal knuwn him there and after
they Ind investigated, they told lin 70
60 ahead and there would be money
enough supplied. He did 80, workiisg
III d little west side machine shop. and
after three years finds himself one
third owner of twenty-five patents OBJ
tanned IN the principal countries of the
world.