The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-15
CLEVELAND MAN
HAS A PERPETUAL
MOTION MACHINE
Mysterious Invention Needs
Neither Steam Nor Elec=
rtrical Power.

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paradise Lost by Theodore Roose-
x Felher &in the Cleveland plain
Dealer, but I've Invented a machine
that viii run tin doomsday by its own
power.'y Felper is a moving picture
repaircr and lives in Cleveland.
With a little engine to which he
has given eleven years of his life he
hopes to make automobiles run with
out fuel, factories without dynamos,
ships without coal.
In the attic of Felber's hcme. care
fully screened from stranger eyes, is
a mass of iron and wheels. -four and
ore-half feet high and two wide. It
runs only when Felber. complying
with the prayer of some enthusiast
who has heard, pulls off he covering
and sets the 1fty4hve gears going.
Felber, asked what runs it. says its
W power No coal, nor steam, nor
electricity nothing but its own pow
er. - don't call, it perpetual motion.
for people would laugh says the in
v%entor, but that's what it is. Without
a 'brakerlt would u till doomsdav.
Good for Elevators.
Il could take it into the boiler-room
in a seventeen STORY building. throw
out. the boilers, attach the elevators
10 my machine and-the elevators go.
Take The engines out of an ocean
liner, put theAmachine TO the screws
and the ocean Is crossed with no ex-
pense. An automobile viii go as long
as the auto lasts u everybody can
own one"
Felber, an active little man, Al, WAS
graduated from a German university
and talks still with a slight accent.
Through the Spanish-American War he
served in the Philippines, for in. him
coursed the blood of the Prussian SOL
dier-his father is high in the Ger
man government.
Now OH the second floor of a Su-
perior venue building Felber, sur
rounded with piles Of borers. ham
mers, pinchers and saws. holds forth
on the moving picture machines that
go awry in some of the hundred odd
theatres about town.
Felber's wife is with him at the
shop, m when he talks of the ma
chine that is to change<the world, she is
the listener most interested.
Mr.. Felber has had all sorts of
Offers she says. in appreciation. "but
he won't make his invention public un.
til the right time. He's waiting until
he gets enough money to, put it out
himself. .fft :.
Mechanic for Years.
And when Mr.. Felber says he can
do a thing" she adds knowingly, "he
.cand We. won't always be poor.
F'lber has been a mechanic for years.
He invented a continuance some years
for saving money to. people who
light their homes with electricity, but
he hasn't vet made it a commercial as
set. The lighter is being preserved in
the secret recesses of the Fiber home
for a baby daughter soon to grow dp-
TITS SO simple a woman can manage
it, he says, "and when the daughter
gets to be Is the inventions; her prop
erty. is. to be given TO the world
The machine Felber admits Is per-
petual, but which he will not call so.
weighs $50 pounds. The inventor says
certain interests have threatened him
with harm should he dare put it on the
narket-it would relegate. other motive
power to dusty shelves, he declares. ard
would make thousands of men in every
city lose their jobs. n