The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11
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Rockst-llks contrtvanDe
He VIII Build
DERIVE POWER FROM Ether
Machine Similar 10 Radio loor
Aerial viii Travel 1e6, 900
Miles per Second ss

Everett Hunt. 3l.year-old professor o:
science and mathematics In tho high
school at Oakland CITY. Ind. Il ahoht
to begin building . machine that he
believes will take him straight TO the
planet Mars. $
While he may not be tbs first u1An
to feel this ambition. he 1t least hrs
new idea about locomotion. The
rocket-like contrivances which others
have proposed for such inter-stellar. .
journeys have been discarded BY him:
in their place he Is developing Z car
which, he says, will take him TO Mart
in something like five minutes and
will bring him back again when he
Is ready to leave-something that the |,
rockets would not do.
His proposed super-flying machine !,
Is to be a big pear shaped affair. Of
duralumin. with complicated ni0tos
on the top where the stem ought *
be.
$4,000 Miles . Second
This motor, according to his ideas
would look something like o radio
loop aerial. It would depend on.
neither gasoline nor oil. but would
grab out of infinite space. energy
from the all-pervading ether waves
to carry the machine along. Out Of
1t. he believes. he will be able to gel
q speed approximating the speed OF
light-186,0 600 miles a second.
Just how these waves will be u5et
to make the thing 60 will have tt
remain mystery to the general pub.
lie for the present. Hunt says be
has his scheme all worked out. but
cannot describe It until he has 1t per.
fected and patented.
1T Is hard for me to believe" he
says, that God would create thu:
vast universe and place US on thin
insignificant earth without some
means Of interplanetary travel to
other worlds. Some day we viii know
how to get back and forth from ono
planet to another"
win Rise Vertically
His flying machine will have nc
landing gear, as 1t will arise and de-
scend vertically. thus requiring no
special landing field. It will b able
to travel In the air either straight up
or horizontally, Or 1t any other angle.
the motor at the top being ptvoted
SO as to be upright no matter what
the angle Of the car below.
When the machine gets half way
to Mars, he believes. It viii pass out
Of the region Of the earth's gravita.
ttonal attraction and would become
pulled toward Mars. Then It win
gradually swing round. and eventual.
" will land on Mars right side up.
Oxygen tanks will have to b IN.
stalled, Of course, Is there - no aiy
at all In the vast region between the
earth and Mars. Oxygen masks prob
ably will have to be carried, too, @
that the passengers can explore 4ara
after they get there, Is scientists re-
; port that the atmosphere on Mars u
much thinner than on this planet.
Might Broadcast Power
There are objections to his plan
Hunt admits; but he does not thiu1
they are very serious.
Certain scientists claim" he says
, that there prevails, about 400 uaile'
, from the earth, q zone In which ther(
Is q total absence Of ether waves.
haven't considered this Is . problem
for I don't agree with them. Thu
mere fact that waves Of energy conn
from the sun in the form Of light ant
heat would disprove this theory, q
my mind
However. II this condition shoula
really exist. Hunt believes 1t coul'
; be surmounted by having radio sta
ton on the earth broadcast power =
him.
When his machine is completed
Hunt plans to take several person
along with him. He believes 1t woul'
be Just as well to have competeu
astronomer In the crew. to act -
pilot while flying around among ia
planets.
Later, he says. he could build ma
chimes to carry 100 passengers-ma
chimes that would not only BE- TT :
travel to other stars, but that woul
be very useful for ordinary air travl
on earth, since they would have a
speed so much greater than that
any existing airplane.