Evening star., 1926-04-18

| inventor. DUJ we 10 nOL KNOW NneInoT
| he is or not. We do not even know
what his alleged invention is. II he
has q patentable invention and is. in
fact, the original inventor of the idea
or device or whatever II is, he can GO
to the Patent ONCE and obtain q pat
ent. / want TO respectfully submit 10
you, gentlemen. that this is very
extraordinary and very dangerous
precedent that we are proposing 10
establish"
At the "a me time Representatives
Bianton and La Guardia labeled the
whole business as "a fraud" the
former adding that he thought the
bill ought to be thrown ''in the waste
ba Sket'
Begg His Champion.
Representative BegE, of Ohio, how
ever, chsmpIoned the cause of the in
ventor in this wise:
This may he all q fake ! do not
know. but suppose that had the radi"
inventor come before Congress upon
q similar proposition. We would have
laughed at him. II II is a. fake, the
Government is not damaged. and II u
is benefaction to the human race,
the gentleman from Tennessee tMr.
Davis will be proud ~ IT. and will he
one of the first TO claim credit for
voting for the bill ] do not see why
a thing that can damage no one ought
| to be frowned upon"
While Gira gossian has not relied
upon the Datent Office for protection,
he did submit "a part" Of his inven-
| tion for the eXa animation of a com
mittee Of five scientists appOinte'
! President Wilson, following enact
ment OF previous legislation authoriz-
| ing such steps. The decision was not
complimentary, but Giragossian came
/ hot ha "A
not pretend TO exhibit on this occasion
a working model. hut merely portions
| Of the machine. 10 show It's construc-
tion.
Patent Officials Rpticent.
In view of the fact thai the Patent
Office is not officially concerned with
the Cara bed invention. officials
there are reticent in stating their
views about It. Commissioner Of Fat
ents Robertson is known 70 he keen
ing in close touch with developments.
however. and his opinion is said ~
agree with that of the Scientific
American. which wrote. after the
aforesaid test:
And so. after all. II turns out ~
be nothing but our old friend the hy-
wheel and it's family of pulleys. that
will. -the-wisp of the perpetual mo-
pected that investigation would dis
close an ingenious bit of mechanism.
but it had not occurred to us that
'Garabed' would prove to be one of
the typical perpetual motion schemes
of the we'll known type pursued by
men who do not know the difference
between power and force
The machine consisted Of a heavy
t1ywheel which could be set in motion
hN,y of Of The
f1vwheel was mounted in bearings in
which friction was reduced to a mini
mum. and II was furnished with a
form Of electric motor driven by
small storage battery. The inventor
claimed that the machine would start
itself. but that IL would take very
long time to run the f1ywheel I'D :"
full speed: and SO II was started by
n strong man by means of the pul-
leys and belts. After the machine
was started the battery was switched
IN and the machine would continue
to revolVe indefinitely
His Theory Derided.
Apparently il took only one.twenti-
eth of horsepower in the electric
motor to keep the machine running.
and il took 10 horsepower to stop II.
: so that the inventor believed he was
producing energy. ENi-
IDENTIFY he was not possessed Of even
an elementary knowledge of physics
such as boy acquires in high school.
, or he would have realized the differ.
ence between force and power. 1t
should be perfectly apparent to him
that the energy stored up in the fv.
; wheel was that put into it by the
! man. All that Mr.. Giragossian did
after running his machine for A time
was to stop il suddenly and note how
great a power was developed by ex.
pending In few seconds the energy
which It had taken minutes TO
store M.
Despite it's ridiculous termination.
I, this farce is not without ite lessons.
, Mr.. GtragOssia ms honesty Of purpose
Is demonstrated beyond meas sure NJ
, doubt: hut il seems absurd that in
this day and generation a man with
no better idea Of the funda mental laws
OF physics can gain the ear of Con.
Cress and have special assure
passed through for the protection OF
his soCalled great discovery. The
patent laws of our country are amply
able 10 protect any honest inventor,
and IL was the suspicion Of Mr.. Gira e
cossian that they would not give him
this prote<ion which led him tn seek
special Favors from Congress.
Sees Slur on Office.
Such an attitude should have been
discoura Ced. but Congress. by its un-
precedented attentions. actually fos-
tered these suspicious and cast slur
upon regular legal means of protecting
inventors which are provided by the
Patent Office. Had Mr.. Giragossia n
applied for patent in the usual way
he would have been shown very
promptly by the Patent Office the
fallacy of his reasoning"
These views are said to he shared
not only by Patent Office officials but
by scientists generally.
; Yeti must he remembered that
many great discoverers and inventors.
! from Columbus to Edison, had their
! Scoffers, and as for Garabed r. H.
) Gira gossian-who knows?
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