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

nernet,1a3 motion machine. He main
aims that it taps the vast storehouses
of cosmic energy and ~that-ihe appara-
tus is founded upon sound scientific
principles. 1z--
ST have hitched my wires to the tail
of the universe, you might say" he
said.
Hubbard has a high school educa-
ton. His father is an electrical ensl-
neer, he said, and The family formerly
lived in Spokane. 1t was while he was
in charge of an air compressor at the
Hercules mine near Occur d'Alene.
Idaho, that he first became interested
in the problem.
Il watched great belt fit by me
day after day." he related, and I
noted, as thousands before me had,
that I could draw an electric spark
from the belt with my finger. I had
always been interested in electricity
and had studied a great deal from
books since I was small boy. One
night I. conceived the idea that devel-
oped later into the generator. will
not say that it. utilizes in any way the
current derived by friction as from the
belt That is not accurate. I am not
prepared to divulge the nature OF the
actual translation Of energy.
Hubbard says he can obtain four
kilowatts, equivalent to more than five
horse power, from contrivance
weighing less than II pounds, and
that he can build a generator less than
Is feet in length to develop $4,000
horse power, or sufficient electrical
energy to drive the new battleship
New Mexico.
Hubbard offers to build for $50 a
generator large enough to drive a
motor car, but much smaller than the
present engines. The Hubbard gener-
ator, according to its inventor, would
give the airp1ane unlimited hying
range -.
The young man says he worked is
hours a day. for. two, years before he
came to. Seattle, and during the yeaa.
since perfecting the apparatus. His
first model was built year and half
ago, he said. -
Hubbard asserts, that his four kilo-
watt machine has continuously ex-
cited the equivalent of 4 20 ordinary
Is watt house lamps to fun brilliancy
for three months. The device during
this time, he says he-is ready to take
oath, did not receive outward stimulus
and at the time the test was complet-
ed the lights were burning at the
same brilliancy.
The apparatus, should it prove to
have the merit its inventor asserts for
it, engineers, said. viii revolutionize
the world Of power and motion. All
steam and gas engines will be junked,
experts say. The most ponderous and
complicated electrical generating de-
vices, steam and. water turbine gen.
orators and all The mechanism of
transmission wires and transformers
will be obsolete. Electrical transporta-
ton can enter a new era. Air trans
portation will be advanced hundreds
OF years. Submarine practice will be
changed, and most important Of all
cheap, almost inexpensive power, plac-
woman.
The ana ouncement OF Hubbard re-
called to the minds Of many the fu-
rore created in July, 1913, by the re-
quest Of Garabed Ghiragossian to con-
gress for a special patent protecting
his rights as the inventor Of a Gree
energy machine.
The patent was granted after nu
merous members of congress had seen
the machine In operation and testi-
fed to its apparent powers. For some
reason, not fully explained, the engine
failed to render the service it's in
ventor asserted for it, and nothing has
been heard Of the device since.
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