The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-01-24
FINALLY DISCOVER
PERPETUAL NOTION

inclined TO Believe Trickery
SomewhereNot I'M
possible
Seattle Post Inteaigeneer.
Has aIfred "a. Hubbard, 10 year Old
Seattle boy tapped the inexhaustibie
reservoirs of natures energy and mar
messed to the use Of man the illimit-
able power that permeates the uni
verse;
Hubbard has announced the perfec-
ton Of an inFentfdnshe terms an at
mospheric power generator. and
made claims that caused Seattle
leading electrical engineers to doubt
the evidences OF their senses and to
pause before they condemned as fol-
" the assertions Of the youth.
With the apparatus, in appearance
small coil OF. wire about six inches
in diameter. surrounding perma-
nentIy magnetic core eight inches
long, the entire eontrivance easily
carried on a mans hand. Hubbard
gave demonstration several miles
from his laboratory that regardless Of
the principles involved, several Seat
tie engineers declared without paral-
lei ia electrical history.
An ordinary incandescent electric
light connected with the two termi-
mails Of The atmosphere power gene
rator gaowed to a cherry red for
nearly an hour, and Hubbard polun-
feered to permit the lamp to burn for
as many hours as was necessary to
satisfy the most sleptical.
The young inventor says there are
no moving parts connected with his
generater. that there are no hidden
batteries, storage or primary, and
those who witnessed The demonstra-
ton made sure that there was no out
side conlection with any source Of
power -
Eabbard.s explanation of the ,phe-
nomeI3on is that he has, succeeded in
transferning the earth lines Of mag
netic force into electrical energy avail
ale for use - .z@s&
While electrical engineers were
highly skeptica and held to the pos
sibility 1r fraud, still as George
Qninazl. superintendent of the eiectri-
cal cl,eratiens of the Pudget Sound
Tracthn Light and Power company.
said, whatever the lad has done it
is a MlarYeleas demonstration
All The experts agreed that, If as
Hubbard declares. there, are no NOV
lng parts ard no concealed battery,
the Invention is revolutionary. They
had ne explanation to offer for its cp-
Grafton
j. d. Ross, superintendent of the
municu,ai lighting department and an
authority ON experimental electricity,
declaref It possile that Hubbard had
stumbled on the answer to the ques-
ton ofsthe ages-can the power Of the
atmospaaere be utilized.
Carl Edward Magnusson, acting
dean ofzshes University Of Washington
college OF Engineering, declined even
TO hazard a guess as to the principle
Involved IN the device.
Il sounds hike trickery to me and
4 can hardly believe that the expert
mentsas described to me actually took
place :. he said. I will not venture
an opinion until have seen it,
#. Uhden, special engineer Of the
city Id charge of the Skasit river
peWera deeylopment declared himself
intensely interested in the invention
and after canvassing the possibilities
or chicanery admitted that he would
not dare form an opinion until he had
seen The apparatus in operation.
1T So always, possible he said
Though there have been many to
make the claipa and no one to sub
sfantiate it Ia the past
s But Hubbard, because his device has
not been patented, owing to compli-
cations arising with his financial back
ers, tits, said, has refused to allow
technical men more than glimpse at
the apparatus.
An that could be learned from him
sregardingIh construction Of the in,
strument follows: ; -.
The machine, he said, is composed
OF several layers OF wire about steel
core, which is magnetized after the
construction is complete. Once mag
netized, the core needs no further at
tention, he said, and the entire device
will deliver, energy unremittingly for
an indefinite length Of time.
"I place a maximum of so years on
the life Of the generator said Hub
bard, Simply because one must fix
some maximum. I know no reason why
Il should not last until time rots the
insulation away from the wires"
Hubbard denies that his device is a