Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-02
"CARABED" THE
WONDERFUL new
POWER DISCOVERY
Literary Digest)

Listen, motorists. Pretty soon you
may snap your fingers at John y.
No more shall you anXiously watch
the garage bulletins for gasoline
quotations along the roadside.
"Garabed's will AK it. Giragossian
has said it. And here are a few other
"Garabcd" promises:
Drive a battleship without fuel.
Enable airplanes to carry thousands
of pounds OF munitions. >
Douhle the speed of steam engines.
Supply electricity.
Produce nitrate.
But apshaw. What's the use of
enumerating all the wonderful things
the new engine will accomplish. Just
take it from Gira gossian II will furnish
free energy.
OF course wise and aged persons
with long memories who remember
Kelley and his motor will shake their
hoary locks and chortlc scoffingIy. But
there We're also those who laughed at
Edison, Bell and Marconi At all
events, the inventor Of the engine
which is to utilize this energy has sue
ceeded in interesting Congress, and the
House has ordered an investigation Of
the device by five scientists approved
By the Secretary of the Interior.
The inventor or discoverer of this
new power is Garabed 7. X Giragos-
stan. an Armenian who came to the
United States in 1891. The ST. Louis
Post-D Dispatch says Of him and his
machine:
In the twenty six years OF his resi-
derfce here he has discovered q new
principle of energy; he has perfected q
machine which he claims will run
without fuel. without expense. or
without toll except wear and tear of
machinery:" he has convinced the Con-
Sress Of the United States that his dis
covery is worthy Of unusual considera-
ton and protection.
In a statement he declared that if
"Garabed" We're used now by the
United States it would have this i'm
mediate three fold value in winning
the war:
Il. The ships would be smokeless
and the speed increased at least fifty
per cent-maybe one hundred per cent.
some degree. This would be the best
remedy against the U-boat.
80. We could utilize it in airships so
they can carry very heavy loads. ac-
make them develop 10000 horsepower
cording to the will Of men. We can
ii necessary. 1t depends on the size
The Garabed' can be supplied to any
size of airship without any fuel or any
other known material TO hamper fight
by weight. We could encircle the
whole globe without descending 70 the
ground We could carry great leads
across the Atlantic and attack the en-
envy.
50. The C;arabed' can be placed on
land ships. battle-ships. o; dread
thoughts, OF whatever size is practic-
able, and furnish motive power for
them without fuel requirement.
This marvellous and mysterious en-
ergy of Mr.. Giragossian seems at least
to have animated the members of Con-
Cress. for while he guards the secret of
"f;arabed" with great care and they
know only what he has chosen to tell
them ii is new principle of
force to be utilized in his engine--his
absolute confidence has quite con-
WINGED them that he has probed some
secret Of the air. The nearest approach
to an explanation of his discovery is to
be found in this transcript Of his ex-
animation by the House Committee on
Patents:
Mr.. Nolan: Is it necessary to have
your engine in order to generate the
free energy; ="
Nh. GiraGossian: Yes. sir"
Mr.. Nolan: You can not attach any
appliance to a present-day airship en-
CINE and have it work.
Mr.. Giragossian: NO, 1t will not
work with the present engine"
Mr.. Nolan: 1T is separate engine
entirely?" n - ~
MI. Giragossian: Absolutely. Sup
posing it is three connected together"
Mr.. Nolan: This is not along the
lines Of perpetual notion
Mr.. Giragossian: mo, sir; did not
discover any motion. | did not over
come gravity or anything of that kind"
Mr.. Nolan: This is something on the
same principle as Benjamin Franklin's
discovery of electricity and Its uses?
1t is natural force -t' 81