The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-02-21
BOY UNCOVERS
SECRET OF SCIENCE
Invention Of Seattle Youth Said to
Apply Atmospheric Power
to Earth

Seattle. Wash, Feb.16.-Though
great scientists have spent their lives
in an effort TO determine the power
within the atmosphere and whether
it could be applied on earth, a19-year
old boy. Alfred NJ. Hubbard of this
city claims that he has discovered
and tapped the inexhaustible reser-
voirs of natures energy and har-
messed to the use of man the power
that holds the world together.
The lad is supported in his claim
by college professors and noted sci
entests of the Pacific Northwest. He
is supported only to the extent that
he has demonstrated his discovery,
and none has been able to detect a
flaw in the working, nor has any one
found a secret" wire in the instru-
ment..
Because he has not as yet OBJ
tanned a patent upon his discovery,
young Hubbard is reticent to speak
of his instrument or to allow out
siders to get more than a glimpse
of his apparatus. George Quinan,
superintendent of the electrical oper-
atoms of the Puget Sound Electric
Light & Power Company, after
viewing the bit of machinery and
witnessing a demonstration, said:
Whatever it is the lad has done, 1t
is a marvellous demonstration"
A few days G young Hubbard
announced that he would give a pub
lie demonstration of the practicable
ty of his apparatus. He calls 1t the
atmospheric generator" He con-
tends that 1t will draw power from
the air and drive engines on earth.
1t is a simple piece of small coil, sur
rounding a permanently magnetic
core. An ordinary incandescent cleo
trio light, connected with the two
terminals of the generator, caused it
to glow a cherry red for more than
an hour. Investigation so far has
proved that there are no hidden bat
teries and no storage and no primary.
The boy reiterates his claim to each
query: There is no connection with
any power source other than what
you see."
The next and more startling DEM
onstration, made before a distin-
guished gathering was the throwing
of the switch into place on a 25-
horsepower electrice motor and in
stantIy the motor jumped into life,
developing its full capacity of power.
Skeptfcs present scoffingly asserted
hat the motor was connected by un-
seen wires. Hubbard hoisted the
motor with a tackle and allowed his
audience to make examination and
tests t. assure themselves that no
wires extended from the motor.
The tiny apparatus vas then TAX
en- apart by Hubbard for the benefit
of his audience. Though he showed
exactly what it consisted of, he would
not tell nor discuss how he had ar
ranged the parts to change the po-
larity at the rate of 100 times a Sec
ond, which he says is the secret of his
invention.
The boy claims he can drive an
automobile with the same appara-
tus and is now connecting his ma
chinery to one, but as the work OF
preparation will take some weeks,
no demonstration will be given until
that time.
One of the many persons who write
to Hubbard every day, some to give
legal advice and others to purchase
his invention. has advanced the
theory that Hubbard operates his de-
vice by personal magnetism.
Hubbard denies that his device
seeks perpetual motion. He main
tains that it taps the vast storehouses
of cosmetic energy and that the APP
paratus is founded upon sound scien-
tifc principles.
Father William e. Smith, pro-
lessor of physics at Seattle college,
states that he believes the boy has
stumbled upon a principle of cleo
tricity never conceived to have ex
listed. Father Smith believes the
young mar has applied himself as
siduously to electrical work, but that
he came upon his discovery by acct
dent. II have given the apparatus
some study" AYERS Father Smith,
"but while l cannot say / under
stand the device thoroughly, l am
able to say that it is not a hoax or a
fraud and that it will serve to give a
basis for future work that eventually
will bear good fruit. l have sufi-
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