The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-20
Honolulu Man Has Model Of
Power Generating Machine to
Convince Skeptics.
INVITES PUBLIC INSPECTION
Invention Either Tremendous
Find or Heartbreaking Mis-
take of Christian Tuch.

In the old tannery building, back in
the lantana in Kalihi-kai, down by the
slaughter house, is machine that will
either revolutionize the whole world of
power generating plants or turn out to
be crushing disappointment to Chris
tian Tleh, the Honolulu inventor. The
machine is the working model of the
''power generating machine" he has
been planning out theoretically for
some years and for which he holds
American, Canadian, British, French
and Belgian patents, with the German
patent applied for.
1t is the machine The Advertiser has
referred to several times during the
past year as "'perpetual motion ma
chine - although the inventor strenu
ously objects to having attached to his
discovery a name that has been so fire.
quently associated with lunatics.
After a great deal of trouble, brought
about by lack of funds, Mr.. Tuch has
his machine set up and in running or
der And it works!
1t is crude bit of machinery as it
stands. Parts that are designed to be
of cut steel are now of chiseled oak;
other parts of the working model are
bits of scrap machinery; pulleys and
belts are homemade-but it works and,
according to Mr.. Tuch, comes up to his
widest expectations.
On Wednesday afternoon next, att
two O'Clock, the inventor in yites the
practical machinists of the city, the
electrical experts and others interested
to come and watch his machine work,
try it out and either convince them
selves that he has wonderful discov-
cry in a method of power ger GRAFTON,
or that he has fooled himself, vast
ed several years of his life and thrown
away the earnings of lifetime inI
working upon and patenting something
that is not what he believes.
Old Power Newly Applied.
Mr.. Tuch describes his discovery as
the utilization of an old power in a
new way. The machine, in short, isl
something whereby power applied be-
comes multiplied. He drives it by cleo
tricity conveyed through wires from the
Hawaiian Electric plant and with it
develops electricity in dynamo driven
by the machine, the electrical power
developed being four times greater
than that used.
At the present time the machine is
driven by alternating current motors
and the power developed is with di-
rect current dynamo. Had ne been able
to secure in Honolulu an alternating
current dynamo, he claims he would
use the Hawaiian Electric power only
to start his generator, then continue toI
drive it with power self-developed, while
surplus power would be stored up.
To the average mechanic, to talk of
a machine driving itself, is arrant non
sense, but Mr.. Tuch claims that he has
the ocular demonstration and will prove
it to the satisfaction of anyone on
Wednesday afternoon.
For the demonstration, he invites
anyone who knows machinery and
power plants, while the electrical ex-
perts are invited to bring with them
their testing apparatus, to measure the
electricity that goes into the driving of
the machine and compare it with the
electric fluid drawn off
Not an Impossibility.
1t is not altogether outside the bounds
of reason to suppose that this modest
Honolulu mechanician has what he be-
lieves he has. The fact that he is not
wealthy and that his machine is a crude
affair does not mean that it is simply
the product of crank Is brain.
The Wright Brothers, whose princi-
pies are now in use on every machine
that flies, were cranks, poor and look
ed down upon by neighbors, as they
worked and whitfield away in their lit
tie shop at Dayton, Ohio, but presidents
and crowned monarchs were proud to
honor them after their machines had
actually flown.
Stevenson was a crank, Bell was a
crank, Edison was the worst crank of
all, but if Tueh has what he says he
win show TO the experts of Honolulu
on Wednesday afternoon next, his name
win be greater in the world than any
of these.
Just for Example.
His invention, he says, can be applied |
10 anything that requires power. As
an example of what he believes II will |
accomplish, he says;
"Plaee one of the power generators
on battleship, with storage batteries |
sufficient 10 start the machine and keep |
II running for two minutes, the machine |
viii then run on its own power and |
will drive the hattleship propellers until /
the engines wear out. There need not |
be- a pound Of fuel for boilers carried |
The cruising radius ~ the ship will ho
unlimited and all the room now taken |
up In bunkers, all tho time consumed |
10 coaling ship, ali the men required
in mo atihera' bold All che money r.
quired 10 purchase coal ana all tao
power now laut 10 transmitting tho
energy of tho coal into duYlnR poser
hY steam viii hp saved p
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