The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-09-16
MYSTERIOUS COIL
PROVES SUCCESS
RUNS AUTOMOBILE ON EV-
ERETT SIRE E T S AND
BOAT IN SEATTLE LAKE.
May Reach the Farm to Run
Labor-S Saving Machinery and
Solve Ever Present Labor Prob
lem.

In consideration of the telephone,
wireless, airplanes and other inven-
tions the man who said there amt
no such animal" when he saw giraffe
should have passed on, but in the face
of the claims of a new invention by
Alfred M. Hubbard, Seattle boy
engineers and scientists are reviving
the ancient phrase and people gener-
ally are waiting to be convinced al
though willing, so willing, to have the
invention develop into lac;.
What Hubbard claims to have is a
coil that takes its power from the air
and turns out an electric current that
will run lights, motors, automobiles,
stoves, anything where power is need
ed without money and without price
once the coil is installed.
An atmospheric power generator
he calls it for want of a better name
No Light Bills
A coil it is, or series of coils, a
central coil surrounded by. smaller
coils and all wound to form big coil.
No moving parts, so noise, no battery,
little affair about eight or ten inches
long, Hubbard connected it up to an
ordinary electric light which immedi-
ately began to glow and continued to
glow and would continue to glow in
Observation-Disclosures c1aimod
The light demonstration was given
last December in the office of one of
the Seattle newspapers. Later Hub
bard went to Washington, D. c., to
arrange for getting a patent. Then
he came back and retired into his
laboratory to work out larger coil
and the problems of connecting it up
to an automobile or boat.
With no particular training for his
work except that which every boy who
has an inherent curiosity for mechan-
ical things possesses, Hubbard has
taken to the study of electricity and
the hours that most boys spend in the
swimming pool or at other kinds of
pool he puts in working with batteries,
motors, wireless and his coil. He says
he felt that there was great deal of
electric power free in the atmosphere
and set out to harness it. He does
not think that he has discovered per-
petual motion, he makes no such
claim, but thinks he has succeeded in
Transforming the earths lines of mag
netic force into electrical energy avail
able for use.
One thing is certain, he has stumped
all Of the electrical engineers and sci
entists, none of whom have been able
to offer any possible explanation for
what he has done.
Drives a Launch
A short time ago Hubbard invited
some Seattle people out to the yacht
club and took them for a ride in a
launch. There was no engine in the
launch, only small motor. With him
Hubbard took a coil, larger than the
one he used for the light, but not so
large that he couldn't carry it with
motor and the boat started out from
the dock Around the lake it went
and then back to the club house. The
people with him lifted the coil and
looked at it, Then they took the mo-
tor off it's foundation and looked at it.
Then they started on still hunt
around the boat for storage batteries.
Then they sat down and stared at
each other.
Then Hubbard connected the coil
to the motor again and the boat made
another trip around the lake. The
motor was evidently too small for the
coil for the wires connecting the two
got hot and had to be disconnected
occasionally and allowed to cool off.
No More Gas Rationing
After this Hubbard went up to Ev-
erett and put one Of his coils in an
automobile. The auto was a stand
ard car with the engine left out and
a motor, ordinary electric motto, in its
place. The coil was small enough to
go under the hood of the engine The
auto started off up step grade on a
dirt road. 1t ran around the Everett
streets. People stared and wondered.
They are still wondering.
These things have been seen and
done What of the future? Will there
be no more transmission lines running
up and down the streets and country
roads? Will all this legislation about
power plant sites be for naught? Will
each house have it's own coil turning
out it's heat and light, running the
sewing machine and vacuum cleaner
and coffee percolator and churn and
so on? Will large manufacturing es-
Establishments have large coils and no
bills for coal or oil fuel and no pail
of smoke coming from their chimneys
to burden the atmosphere?