Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-05
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treasurer OF the territory the articles
of association OF the Giryin Electrical
Development Company. Ltd This
company Is one formed to take over
the ownership OF ali the. patent rights
to and to develop an electrical myen'
ton gotten out by Charles w. Gryin,
who, as many will remember, was
resilient of Honolulu for many years,
Mr.. Girvin was q member OF the
1904 class Of the Honolulu high school
but left school In 1908 to enter the
employ Of the Hawaiian Electric Com.
pany, remaining there for three years,
In September, 1906, he went to San
Francisco and entered the employ OF
the Pacific Gas & Electric Company
and spent three years with this COM
pany during the reconstruction period
after the great fire. In the summer
Of 1909 he went east and entered Cor
nell University to take up the study
Of electrical engineering, and 1t was
during his third year there that he
conceived the idea Of the present in
vention. 2
The dnvention is an electric machine
capable of use as generator or mo
tor on direct current and is suitable
particularly for direct current voltages
far higher than. now possible with ex
listing types OF direct current ma
chiness
Patents on the invention are now
pending in the United States. Canada,
Austria and Hungary and are already
granted and issued In six other of the
principal European countries.
Two small models OF the invention
have been bniIt and operated success
fully. The first was for Is XIV at
about 1900 volts. The second was for
about XIV at about $4,000 volts,
which Is the highest direct current
voltage ever achieved by a single ma
chine.
Upon the completion Of the second
machine. the granting Of patents be
ing by that time assured, negotiations
FOR the disposal of the patent rights
were entered into with the three larg-
est American electrical manufacture
ing companies and with the Siemenss
SchucSertwerke Of Berlin, the largest
electrical manufacturing company In
Europe. All these companies were
very highly interested IN the inven.
tlcn, the General Electric Company,
the AIlis-C Chalmers Manufacturing
Company, and the German company
each going SO far as to send their
chief engineers to Washington to see
the model and to interview Mr. GirVin!
It proved. however, that although
these companies were very highly In
terested Ii the invention, their inter.
est was confined to the use OF the
machine for railroad work, and for
this work the machine was not yet
sufficiently developed for them to take
up. The Observation-Disclosures
Company wished to look further into
the invention, 80, at their own ex-
pense, took GirFin and the $4,000 volt
model to Berlin. where for four months
exhaustive tests on the model were
made and the whole matter given
thorough study BY their technical and
construction engineers. At the end
OF this time their engineers were sat.
isfied with the possibilities Of the I'M
vention and made Mr.. Girvin a salts
factory for a license under all the
European patents and contract was
signed up IN May, 1914.
Gfrvin then returned to America In
June 1914, and was negotiating with
the General Electric Company with q
view to their taking up the develop
ment Of the invention IN this country.
The German company had started the
development In July, but both their
work and the negotiations with the
General Electric Company were stops
ped BY the war In Europe.
Fhe Giryfn Electrical Development
Company. Ltd. viii take up the work
OF general development of the inven.
tion. This company Is Incorporated
with capital or $4,000, divided
into 1880 shares of $40 each. Only
$500 shares are to be sold as it Is
calculated that this viii give ample
funds to carry the Development OF the
Invention to completion and disposal
CT the patent rights: about 1000 shares
out OF the $500 to be disposed Of have
already been subscribed for.
The officers Of the company are:
Chas. w Giryifi, president; j. p.
Cooke, vice president: d p. 4. Isen-
berg. secretary and treasurer, and
John Watefhouse and f. ID. Malone,
directors, The head office OF the com
pany win be IN Honolulu. but the
actual work will be done bv Mr.. CIR
vim In one OF the eastern cities. Cir.
yin 3 at present IN town, but expects
to leave for the east In two or three
weeks While IN town he can be
found BY inquiry to the Office Of Paul
IsenBefg at Haekfeid's.