Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-01
ELECTRICITY. :
A MachinS, that Produces Light, Heat
andSP Power Without Huei.

beside curious little machine re-
Gently and explained how he expects
to create light, heat and power with
out the aid of fuel.
/ Edison tried 1t and failed, but
have been successful" he said. and he
patted the machine with a wrinkled
| hand as though he were caressing his
| only child.
When my machine is on the market
it will be possible Tor every cottage
to have its own heating and lighting
| plant for less than $75, not including
| the electrical heaters. A business
| house can put in its plant for less
! than 800 and automobiles can run
steadily for months without recharg-
| ing a single cell
w. c. Bridges, the aged inventor,
| looking for all the world as though he
| might have been transferred from
| The Fortune Hunter" into a dimly
| lighted Kansas City basement. has
| spent nearly all the eighty-one years
| of his life inventing machinery to sims
| pity the multitudinous demands of
| the work day world.
Some of my inventions are in every
| day use" says this kindly faced old
| man, and have made fortunes for
| Others. Some of them failed-failure
| is part of the heritage of every man
| who seeks to accomplish many things
| have made and lost more than one
fortune in my inventions"
And thus it is that today the in
ventor is dependent for his daily bread
| largely upon an Italian friend who is
little better able to supply Bridges
few physical needs than lie is to sup
ply his own.
Electricians who have seen Bridges
invention declare it a wonderful ma
chine. They are inclined to believe it
viii do what its inventor claims for it.
The apparatus consists of a teA7eell
battery, capable of supplying Afty
volts; a dynamo from which hekbelt
wheel is removed: a sprocket with
seven arms inserted, and seven electro
magnets to act on the arms of the
sprocket as propellers. As each ham-s
mer-like arm comes within the at
tracing range of the powerful mag
nets it automatically shuts off all the
other magnets of the hack field for
that infinitesimal part of a second.
The result is the creation of speed and
d
ton of about ITO volts.
How sdoes the machine supply 10
volts when only, forty volts are drawn
from the batteries?
So simple is the answer of the in
ventor that it previously had passed
unnotieed.
II was watching an electro magnet
lift forty tons of armor plate in Pitts
burg, Pa" he said. j asked the en-
gineer the horse power of his dynamo
and he replied that it was supposed to
be forty, but that it did forty horse
power of work outside of the lifting.
1T set me to thinking. .fWhere does
the additional strength 81 the appli-
anee come from l asked, lfayself..
"A few months later fIwas N ST.
Louis. made an electro. Magnet and
scattered upon it a had{fnl of iron
powder, the finest l coulN6et Then
| scrutinized the surface of the magnet
with a powerful glass. What [ saw
| astonnded me. The tiny particles
were engaged in a perpetual dance II
was evident that the magnet was
drawing a large part os its strength
from the atmosphere. Ii other words
it Was utilizing Il part OF the same
property which makes wireless teieg-
| raphy possible. The air of that little
work shop WAS proved4there and then
to be a heavily charged Leyden jar
| knew it to contain the formula for
the real storage battery that would
furnish to mankind heat. light ana
power without the use of fuel.
Now the idea of propeling q dyna-
= Ia
but the idea of using an electro mag
net is. The plant can be so arranged
| as to turn the negative current back
into the battery jars so that only the
2 or per cent evaporation will be
lost and the battery will rechange it
self as it works.
IF forty horsepower dynamo can
do forty horse power of work and at
the same time change magnets cap
able of pulling forty tons and more.
don't you see that the engines of a
battleship may be rip easily by one
of my engines without the ships being
| encountered with ceal and golfers?
That's what | meantEwhen / said the
invention is a revolution in the me-
chanical world
When Inventor Bridges came to
Kansas City two years ago he had Sc
cents and an idea. He expected to find
| relative here who has given financial
encouragement to many of his enter
prises, but found that he had quilted
the city. AT the end of the second day.
economic as he might. he was on his
uppors. as he expressed it, for the
444tA time in his career. with only the
idea left.
After wandering about for several
days hungry and with no place to
sleep he found an Italian to whom he
told his troubles. The Italian was
making money running lodging houses
for men. He listened attentively to
the old mans explanation Of the Won
The agreement Vac made and signed
| and ever since Bridges has worked at
his invention. giving it all his TIME.
After it had been examined yesterday
stake YOU until YOU are successful and
| we will split the profits
| ders of his idea and then said:
1T sounds good go ahead I'll grub
| by an electrical engineer and pro-
| noaneed a wonderful piece of mechan-
| ism, he put it into operation for a re-