The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-29
Is Perpetual Motion Here AtLast9
Youth May Haze Sol0ed Problem
Seattle Youth May Have Tapped Inexhaustibe Reser'
voirs of Natures Energy Electrical Experts Puz-
zled But Inclined to Believe Trickery
Somewhere Not Impossible

Ou why IL SllOuIu uOI 1dSI uuIi1 I1l1O
rots the insulation away from the
wires"
Hubbard denies that his device is
"a perpetual motion machine. He
maintains that it taps the vast store
! houses of cosmic energy and that the
apparatus is founded upon sound
scientific principles.
Got Idea From Spark.
II have hitched up my wires to the
tail of the universe, you might say -
! he saide
Hubbard mas a high school educa-
ton. His father is an electrical en-
gineer, he said, and the family form
erly lived in Spokane. 1t was while
he was in charge Of an air compressor
at the Hercules mine near Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, that he first became
interested in the problem.
81 watched a great belt fly by me
day after day." he related, land I
noted, as thousands before me had,
that I could draw an electric spark
from the belt with my finger. l had
always been interested in electricity
and had studied a great deal from
books since I was small boy. One
night conceived the Idea that devel-
oped later into the generator. 1 will
not say that it utilizes in any way the
current derived by friction as from
the belt. That is not accurate. 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 IL pounds, and
that he can build a generator less
than 18 feet in length to develop 49,
900 horse power, or sufficient electri-
cal energy to drive the new battleship
New Mexico.
Hubbard offered to build for $50
generator large enough to drive a
motor car, but much smaller than the
present engines. The Hubbard gener-
ator, according to it's inventor, would
give the airplane unlimited flying
range.
The young man says he worked IL
hours a day for two years before he
came to Seattle, and during the year
since perfecting the apparatus. His
first model was built year and a
half ago, he said.
Hubbard asserts that his four kilo-
watt machine has continuously ex-'
cited the equivalent Of 120 ordinary
25 watt house lamps to full brilliancy
for three mont rs. The device during
this time, he says he is ready to take
oath, did not receive outward stimu-
lus and, at the time the test was
completed the lights were burning at
the same brilliancy.
Many Fiascos Recalled.
The apparatus, should it prove to
have the merit it's inventor asserts
for it, engineers said, will revolu-
tion. All steam and gas engines will
be junked, experts say. The most
ponderous and complicated electrical
generating devices, steam and water
turbine generators and all the mech
anism of transmission wires and
transformers will be obsolete. Elec-
trical transportation can enter new
era. Air transportation will be ad-
vanced hundreds of years. Sub
marine practice will be changed, and
most important of all cheap, almost
inexpensive power, placed at the dis
posal of every man and woman.
The announcement Of Hubbard re-
called to the minds of many the fu-
rore created in July, 1918, by the
request of Garabad Ghiragossian to
congress for a special patent protect
ing his rights as the inventor of a
free energy" machine.
The patent was granted after nu-
merous members of congress had
seen the machine in operation and
testified to it's apparent powers. For
some reason, not fully explained, the
engine failed to render the service it's
inventor asserted for it, and nothing
has been heard of the device since.
Mrs, Johns EntertainS.