The New Yort Times 1928
Feburary 25
page 1 column 2
colonel charles lindbergh ,his capitalist and major thomas lanphier , commander of the first pursuit group at selfridge field, michigan, met today with lester hendershot, inventor of the fuelless motor and his business associate d. bar peat.
so begins a week that is lost in history.
lester henderson invented a electric motor that in the words of major lanphier :" ..is said to employ electromagnetism with the rotary motion of the earth" the motor produced 1800 rpm for 2000- 3000 hours before the central magnet had to be recharged
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields.although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was inhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed a this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator,ranging form the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic ploe not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develope a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the sun revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model.his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.
lanphier continues,"the first model consistesd of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lite 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio and in earlier 1928 he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first genertator.he used it to power a toy airplane for his son.but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction.
so we are not talking hi tech.we are talking making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
also interesting, when these articles came out ,in seattle, The Post Intelligencer published a copyrighted story about a local man,alfred m hubbard, who has evidently built a motor on the same design in 1919.his motor was used to power a 18 foot boat by connecting the generator to the electric engine of the boat.
it was said to "powered by a coil 11 inches im diameter and 14 inches long."
so this phenomenom has been noted before.
i actually saw a working motor on the johnie carson tonight show in the late 60's.
of course i had no idea what was happening,the motor itself was made of two rings on a common axis so the interior rings could spin while the outer ring served as the base.
there was a electric meter of some sort and every time the inner ring passed through the outer ring a huge spike of electricity was formed.there was a large visible flash when the two rings passed each other and this coincided with the surge of electric power.
the inventor said he did not know how much power was being generated as this electric meter was topped out each time.
but this motor had a diameter ofseveral feet.it was a large structure so if a 7 inch diameter motor had enough power to generate enough electricity to "kill a man", i can only imagine how much power a 6 ft diameter motor was producing.
this inventor also said that the central ring was magnetized and had to be replaced periodically.
a second time i read about this type of motor was in the late 80s. a man in lousiana was taking a corvette around to shows .it only moved 3-5 miles an hour and it also had a magnetized core ,i assume.but here the inventor had added a 9 volt battery,which i assume powered the central core.this seemed to be a good design improvement as one
no longer had to replace the magnet,simply replace the 9 volt battery.
critic said he was using capacitors to store up a charge.but seriously a nine volt battery pushing a 1 ton and a half auto for hours on end.
now thing become ominious.
no more articles until march 10
New York Times
march 10
page 1 column 2
at noon tuesday march 6th, lester hendershot was shocked by an estimated 2000 volts and left temporary paralyzed and unconscious until 6 in the evening.the article when on that he would be hospitalized for several weeks.but nothing more was forth coming
hmmmm
so a reporter called to west elizabeth,PA. to talk to lester"s mother and wife, on the 9th of march and found out they knew NOTHING about lesters condition or accident.they had not been notified of his near death and even then it was the reporter who told them.
so ends almost a lost week in history..
almost
New York Times 1928
Novemeber 12
page 13 column 1
representaive of pennsylvania,m. clyde kelley is seeking a congressional patent for lester hendershots invention.
so the implication is that the capitalist somehow bought his patent or in somewhy controlled his ideas so that he could not get a us patent. he then had to resort to a congressional patent attempt.
i think it stretches reason to believe that hendershots "accident " was an accident. no notification of next of kin. it was in my view a murder attempt. and the aftermath shows that the captialist plan was to never produce such a motor/generator.
rahu
The New Yort Times 1928
Feburary 25
page 1 column 2
colonel charles lindbergh ,his capitalist and major thomas lanphier , commander of the first pursuit group at selfridge field, michigan, met today with lester hendershot, inventor of the fuelless motor and his business associate d. bar peat.
lester henderson invented a electric motor that in the words of major lanphier :" ..is said to employ electromagnetism with the rotary motion of the earth" the motor produced 1800 rpm for 2000- 3000 hours before the central magnet had to be recharged
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields. although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was enhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed at this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator, ranging from the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic pole not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develop a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the earth revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model .his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.”
lanphier continues,"the first model consisted of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lightted 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio earlier in 1928. he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first generator. he used it to power a toy airplane for his son. but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction. so we are not talking hi tech. and we are talking about making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields. although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was enhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed at this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator, ranging from the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic pole not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develop a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the earth revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model .his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.”
lanphier continues,"the first model consisted of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lightted 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio earlier in 1928. he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first generator. he used it to power a toy airplane for his son. but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction. so we are not talking hi tech. and we are talking about making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
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Feburary 25
page 1 column 2
colonel charles lindbergh ,his capitalist and major thomas lanphier , commander of the first pursuit group at selfridge field, michigan, met today with lester hendershot, inventor of the fuelless motor and his business associate d. bar peat.
so begins a week that is lost in history.
lester henderson invented a electric motor that in the words of major lanphier :" ..is said to employ electromagnetism with the rotary motion of the earth" the motor produced 1800 rpm for 2000- 3000 hours before the central magnet had to be recharged
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields.although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was inhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed a this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator,ranging form the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic ploe not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develope a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the sun revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model.his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.
lanphier continues,"the first model consistesd of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lite 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio and in earlier 1928 he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first genertator.he used it to power a toy airplane for his son.but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction.
so we are not talking hi tech.we are talking making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
also interesting, when these articles came out ,in seattle, The Post Intelligencer published a copyrighted story about a local man,alfred m hubbard, who has evidently built a motor on the same design in 1919.his motor was used to power a 18 foot boat by connecting the generator to the electric engine of the boat.
it was said to "powered by a coil 11 inches im diameter and 14 inches long."
so this phenomenom has been noted before.
i actually saw a working motor on the johnie carson tonight show in the late 60's.
of course i had no idea what was happening,the motor itself was made of two rings on a common axis so the interior rings could spin while the outer ring served as the base.
there was a electric meter of some sort and every time the inner ring passed through the outer ring a huge spike of electricity was formed.there was a large visible flash when the two rings passed each other and this coincided with the surge of electric power.
the inventor said he did not know how much power was being generated as this electric meter was topped out each time.
but this motor had a diameter ofseveral feet.it was a large structure so if a 7 inch diameter motor had enough power to generate enough electricity to "kill a man", i can only imagine how much power a 6 ft diameter motor was producing.
this inventor also said that the central ring was magnetized and had to be replaced periodically.
a second time i read about this type of motor was in the late 80s. a man in lousiana was taking a corvette around to shows .it only moved 3-5 miles an hour and it also had a magnetized core ,i assume.but here the inventor had added a 9 volt battery,which i assume powered the central core.this seemed to be a good design improvement as one
no longer had to replace the magnet,simply replace the 9 volt battery.
critic said he was using capacitors to store up a charge.but seriously a nine volt battery pushing a 1 ton and a half auto for hours on end.
now thing become ominious.
no more articles until march 10
New York Times
march 10
page 1 column 2
at noon tuesday march 6th, lester hendershot was shocked by an estimated 2000 volts and left temporary paralyzed and unconscious until 6 in the evening.the article when on that he would be hospitalized for several weeks.but nothing more was forth coming
hmmmm
so a reporter called to west elizabeth,PA. to talk to lester"s mother and wife, on the 9th of march and found out they knew NOTHING about lesters condition or accident.they had not been notified of his near death and even then it was the reporter who told them.
so ends almost a lost week in history..
almost
New York Times 1928
Novemeber 12
page 13 column 1
representaive of pennsylvania,m. clyde kelley is seeking a congressional patent for lester hendershots invention.
so the implication is that the capitalist somehow bought his patent or in somewhy controlled his ideas so that he could not get a us patent. he then had to resort to a congressional patent attempt.
i think it stretches reason to believe that hendershots "accident " was an accident. no notification of next of kin. it was in my view a murder attempt. and the aftermath shows that the captialist plan was to never produce such a motor/generator.
rahu
The New Yort Times 1928
Feburary 25
page 1 column 2
colonel charles lindbergh ,his capitalist and major thomas lanphier , commander of the first pursuit group at selfridge field, michigan, met today with lester hendershot, inventor of the fuelless motor and his business associate d. bar peat.
lester henderson invented a electric motor that in the words of major lanphier :" ..is said to employ electromagnetism with the rotary motion of the earth" the motor produced 1800 rpm for 2000- 3000 hours before the central magnet had to be recharged
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields. although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was enhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed at this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator, ranging from the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic pole not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develop a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the earth revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model .his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.”
lanphier continues,"the first model consisted of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lightted 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio earlier in 1928. he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first generator. he used it to power a toy airplane for his son. but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction. so we are not talking hi tech. and we are talking about making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
major lanphier had two weeks earlier had tested the motor at selfridge fields. although he at first thought it was "bunk" he became convinced after testing the generator(not-motor) himself and contacted lindbergh.
the motor was presently in transit to ny for furthur testing.
New York Times 1928
Feburary 26
pager 1 column 4
Feburary 27
page 19 column 3
Feburary 28
page 19 column 1
at this time in history charles linndbergh was probably the most famous american in the world as he had completed the first transatlantic flight to europe on may 20 1927.
one must keep in
mind that air travel was just becoming a world wide force.
the imagination of the nation was taken over by the ex world war 1 pilots that took to barn storming in the 20's. lindbergh was bigger than any rock star today as the nations self image was enhanced through his exploits.
early on lindbergh was mentioned in connection with business interest but very quickly put in the background because no one wanted him associated with any particular corporation for fear of bad press.
as major lanphier declared " colonel lindbergh had no connection with the groups interested in it(fuelless motor).there is only hendershot,peat,henry breckenridge and myself(lanphier).lindbergh means too much to aviation.lindbergh is aviation in america."
so from the beginning the capitalist were trying to buy this technology.
this led lester hendershot ,on feb26, to deny that any corporations had been formed at this point.
as so much speculation surrounded his generator, ranging from the idea it was "stealing" power from radio broadcast stations(soundly refuted as the generator produced constant electricity 24 hours a day,even when there were no stations on the air) to outright fraud.
the most perceptive realized it was a generator ,not a motor, but could not explain where it's power supply came from.
so lester explained in his own words:"there is nothing mysterious about the motor,it is the same force that pulls the needle of a compass."
at this time in aviation history a compass was sorely needed before air flight could become common place. compasses do not give true north as the point to the magnetic pole not to true north. going on" all that exist currently is the magnetic induction compass that indicates north but has to be reset before each flight and is unreliable"
"i found that with a premagnetized core ,i could set up a magnetic field that would indicate the true north".
" in continuing my experiments i learned that by cutting the same lines of magnetic force north and south i had a indicator of true north and that by cutting the the field east and west i could develop a rotary motion."
his associate barr peat furthur explained,"the secret is in the method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the opposite direction that the earth revolves"
major lanphier had studied the motor for two weeks and had helped build the second larger model .his descriptions are very interesting.
the first model kept a 6 watt light bulb burning for 26 days and powered a sewing machine engine but burned the sewing machine engine out.
quoting hendershot lanpheir adds," it draws the energy off the magnetic energy of the earths poles."
but no more details until the patent work is complete.”
lanphier continues,"the first model consisted of a ring magnet 3 inches in diameter .around the magnet were coils rigged as only hendershot knows how to fix them.and another set of coils pass through the center of the ring."
the larger second model that lanphier helped build was a ring magnet 7 inches in outside diameter and 6 inches inside diameter.
this lightted 2 100 watts lamps and as lanphier ominiously stated.."i think we have enough electricity to kill a man."
hendershot later added to a congressional commitee,"it obtains its intial impulse from the precharged magnetic core and its secondary and greatest power surge by magnetic induction from the earth"." one which produces 60 horsepower has been running for two weeks without recharging the magnetic core.
so at the end of feburary,1928, the motor is intransit to washington for furthur testing.
hendershot was given a broken radio earlier in 1928. he used the parts of the discarded radio to make his first generator. he used it to power a toy airplane for his son. but it would only flight when pointing north.it took him 2 weeks to work out out the rewiring of the motor so that it would flight in any direction. so we are not talking hi tech. and we are talking about making a fuelless generator from parts of 1920's era radio.
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