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Subject: Motors That Need No Power. Oct. 21,
2006.

I used to read the "Fate" magazine many years ago and enjoyed it very
much.
Here is some information about some motors that need no power but obtain the
power from the energy that permiates the Earth everything else in space.

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Fate Magazine, November 1956, pp. 126 & 128

"Report from the Readers"

Heat From Air
The story of Alfred Hubbard and his coil in the July 1956 issue of Fate
made me recall another mysterious device. Around 1920 John Huston of
Prineville, Ore., claimed to have invented a way to take heat out of the
air with condensers. The first poorly insulated rig of his that I saw boiled
water in 20 minutes. The device was claimed to replace fuels, to be good for
household heating or refrigeration and to be able to run railroad engines or
steamboats.
Huston and his father formed a company of 20 stockholders and Huston built
an up-to-date model of his device. This model performed better than
expected,
and Huston and his father took it to San Francisco to demonstrate it. They
hoped to interest manufacturers in building the device on a royalty basis.
I talked to Huston after he returned to Prineville. He told me, "The
machine can be made so hot that it will destroy itself. Reverse the machine,
and the temperature will go as low as 250 below zero."
He said manufacturers in San Francisco refused to build the machine
because
it would throw too many men out of work.
It would also kill the sale of fuels, the major cargo of steamships at
that
time.
Huston also told me he had patented his device in Canada and England. The
USA had refused to patent it.
Huston evidently got nowhere with his device and I do not know what became
of it. He died a young man of 22 in 1920 or 1921.
White Salmon, WA
http://www.rexresearch.com/huston/huston.htm
Huston Patent

Fate Magazine, October 1956, pp. 123-125; "Report from the Readers"

Mysterious Invention

"The Hubbard Energy Transformer" brought back to me exciting memories of
another inventor. In 1918, while doing painting and decorating, I was hired
to paper several bedrooms in a large two-story house. While at this work I
went down to the back porch to pick up some materials. I happened to glance
at the light meter and saw it was not moving.
I opened the fuse box and saw the main power fuses had been removed. It
took only a minute to make sure the line had not been taped beyond the
meter.
The only member of the family at home at the time was a young man in his
early twenties [C. Earl Ammann]. I asked him, "Earl, where do you get your
juice? I noticed it does not come from the power lines".
"Come along and I’ll show you", he said.
He led me up to the attic. He placed some steel bars on a work table and
picked up a coil which looked like a loose coupler. After placing the coils
on the steel rods he touched the opposite terminal. The bell rang with great
force, and there was quite a spark, too.
I picked up the coils to make sure there was no contact with other
appliances. I could see right through them. There was no battery inside. The
bell rang just as vigorously. The wire was iron.
In the basement Earl had what he called an Activator Transformer, the
size of two fists, which had to be within 10 miles of the radius of the
generator coils. The activator was not in contact with any visible wires or
appliances. It was activated by the electric currents which surge around
the earth and activate the compass needle. By cutting into these currents,
Earl said, we can obtain unlimited power.
A year later Earl demonstrated his Cosmo Electric Generator in Denver.
He had placed two copper spheres on the front fenders of his car in place of
the headlights. From these copper spheres he obtained enough power to drive
that old jalopy all over Denver as reported in the Denver Post at the time.
While Earl was demonstrating his invention all over the streets of
Denver, the power had been cut off in the foothills. In spite of this,
when he went to Washington DC shortly afterward to try to obtain a patent
on his Cosmo Electric Generator, he found that charges had been filed
against him claiming he had a device to steal power from the power lines.

K. H. Isselstein, Denver Post Monday, August 8, 1921)
Denver Man Invents Generator That Takes Electricity From Air & Propels
Automobile Believes He has Apparatus that will Revolutionize Power &
Lighting & Gives it a Test on Streets of City.
Has an invention been made that will revolutionize the electrical world?
Will the apparatus conceived by a Denver man light buildings, run
automobiles, battleships, power plants by the unlimited supply of
electricity in the air? Denver electrical experts say "yes", and the
young inventor, C. Earl Ammann, Monday demonstrated his invention by
attaching it to an old automobile and running it about the city.
An atmospheric generator is the name of Ammann’s apparatus. It is a
compact, cylindrical object with two small brass spheres protruding from
the top. Inside, Ammann says, is an arrangement of steel wires and
minerals, so fixed as to draw the electricity from the air, condense it
and utilize it for driving power.
The automobile which Ammann used for his demonstration Monday was the
body and chassis of an electric vehicle. There are said to be no
batteries in the car. It propelled itself with remarkable speed at the
touch of the foot, climbed hills and glided through a maze of traffic
under easy control.

Careful To Conceal His Invention

When asked by skeptical persons if he had a storage battery concealed
inside of the power cylinder, Ammann said:
"As badly as I would like to show the inside of my invention, I can’t,
for I have not yet obtained the patent rights. It would be exposing the
result of seven years of work to open the cylinder. I leave for
Washington this week to obtain the patent rights. When I return I will
gladly show everything and I can only say, wait until then and time will
tell.
"I have bucked every law of the textbooks to perfect the invention. It
appears on the order of the wireless telephone but it is decidedly
different, except that the electricity is derived from the air. It will
run anywhere except under water.
The automobile is only a simple test.
The generator will light buildings, do away with steam turbines, and,
in fact, propel any kind of engine motor".
J. N. Davis, the proprietor of the Davis Electric Garage company, at
921 East 14th Avenue, and one of the oldest electrical men in Denver, made
a thorough study of the generator.
Electrical Man Has Faith In It. "I believe that Mr. Ammann has at least
made the invention which will revolutionize power", Mr. Davis said. "Of
course, we don’t know what is inside of the generator and the inventor would
be foolish to show us. We have long known that certain minerals exist, which
if properly arranged together, would furnish power. That, in substance,
according to the blueprints of the invention, is the basis of the whole
thing.
"If the generator has been perfected to the extent that it will propel an
automobile, the rest of its work is assured.
It will be the greatest invention of the age. The electricity obtained
from
the air, first passing through the generator, would be available for any
use".
So impressed was Mr. Davis that he offered the use of his building for Mr.
Ammann’s headquarters. Ammann, who is but 28 years old, came to Denver from
Spokane, Washington. He is an electrical engineer and lives at the Argonaut
Hotel.

Lester Hendershot: Fuelless Motor
New York Times Sunday, February 26, 1928)
"Fuelless Motor Impresses Experts"
W.B. Stout Says, Invention Works Uncannily --- Washington Thinks It’s
Important ~ Built On A Radio Principle ~ Armature Winding New -- Invention
Inspired By Young Son -- Lindbergh Flies Here
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 25 -- W.B. Stout, head of the Stout Air Lines and
designer of the all-metal tri-motored Ford Monoplane, declared here today
that he had seen what he characterized as an impressive" demonstration of
the Hendershot fuelless motor two weeks ago in Pittsburgh.
Lester J. Hendershot, the inventor, and his associate. D. Barr Peat, who
is manager of the Bettis Field at McKeesport, demonstrated the motor
sec-etly yesterday in a hangar at Selfridge Field. This block test was
witnessed by Major Thomas G. Lanspier, Clonel Charles A. Lindbergh and
others.
It was explained today that the model used in the demonstration was a
much smaller machine than an actual working motor capable of developing
enough power to lift and propel an airplane. Its designers claim for it
that it runs on an electromagnetic principle, by which it draws its force
directly from the earth’s field, and through the properties within the
motor itself transforms these electric currents into power that can be
delivered efficiently at a propeller shaft.

Part 1.

John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subject: Motors That Needs No Fuel. Part 2. Oct. 22,
2006.

This shows cases where people have made these motors.

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Calls Demonstration Uncanny

"The demonstration was very impressive", Mr. Stout said. "It was actually
uncanny. I would like very much to see how a large model designed to develop
power enough to lift an airplane would operate".
Mr. Stout said the model he saw was about the size of the tiny motors used
in vacuum cleaners.
"I was told that the revolutionary feature was a hereto unknown manner of
winding the armature", Mr. Stout continued. "Hendershot said he had
succeeded
in winding it in such a way that it draws energy directly from electrical
currents which exist constantly in the air or in the ground. Such sources of
cheap and inexhaustible power, of course, never have been reached before.
The small model appeared to operate exactly as Hendershot explained that it
did".
Neither Colonel Lindbergh nor Major Lanphier would express themselves at
length on the test they witnessed yesterday. Major Lanphier admitted,
however,
that they were experimenting with it and referred all questions to
Hendershot.
"He is the only one who knows all about it", the Major said. "Lindbergh
has
nothing to do with it, although he saw it".
William B. Mayo, chief engineer for the Ford Motor Company, was in
conference with Major Lanphier, Hendershot and Peat at Major Lanphier’s
quarters today.

"Invention Result Of Dream"
Hendershot Made First Fuelless Motor For His Son’s Toy Plane.
The invention of the fuelless motor, tested at Detroit, was the result of
a dream by its inventor, Lester Jennings Hendershot, who lives on "the
street back of the railroad" in this town of about 3,000 inhabitants, 15
miles from Pittsburgh.
Although Hendershot was on his way from Selfridge Field today and is not
expected home until tomorrow, his wife told of his conception of the machine
and how the miniature model was constructed from the parts of a worn out
radio which had been given to the inventor by his uncle.
Several years ago the vision of a machine which would operate from "earth
currents" came to Hendershot in a dream, according to his wife, but it was
not
until last November that he actually started working on it.
His 4-year old boy had built a small airplane at that time and was
considerably chagrined because it would not operate. The father was
disturbed
too, so he told his son he would build an airplane which would work. The
result of that was the fuelless machine.

First Model Worked Toy Plane

When the miniature motor model had been constructed, Hendershot built a
small airplane and placed the machine in it. A switch was turned and
immediately the propeller began to move. The machie was not connected to any
electrical current, but was running on is own accord from "earth currents".
For several weeks the little motor and the airplane rested upon a small
table in the living room of the Hendershot home, which faces an unpaved
street near the railroad tracks. One day D. Barr Peat of Bettis Field, the
air mail port near McKeesport, Pa., visited the Hendershot home to see the
model.
He immediately became enthusiastic and a few weeks later he and Hendershot
were at Selfridge Field where permission was been granted to build a model
large enough to operate an airplane.
Hendershot, who is only 29 years old, was born in Hyndmann, Pa. His
schooling has not been extensive, although he spent a few months several
years
ago at Cornell University, where he took a few courses in mechanics. He has
not been employed at any particular task and has been known as a "freelance"
worker. He has been a fireman and an engineer on the railroad, has worked in
the mills near Pittsburgh, has inspected concrete and done electrical work.
During the w-r he was a bugler with a machine gun company, but did not get
overseas.

Still Wants To See "How They Work"

According to his mother, he has always been interested in mechanics and
when a child he would insist upon taking his playthings apart.
And that desire has not escaped him a man, for even now he takes his own
son’s playthings apart to "see how they work".
It required only a few weeks for him to construct the miniature model of
his fuelless motor, although he worked day and night during that time. He
had a crude workbench in the cellar of his home, which was placed near the
furnace, where it was warm. Early in the morning he would be there,
tinkering
about, and late at night he still could be found there.
Hendershot’s idea was that the earth currents which make the aurora
borealis in the skies could be harnessed by man and made to produce power
that
would operate an engine.
The youthful inventor has no other inventions to his credit.

"Works On Principle Of Compass"

Lester J. Hendershot first came to Bettis airplane field in McKeesport
between two and three years ago, and soon afterward brought one of his
motor models to the officers of the field for inspection.
The fuelless motor works somewhat on the principle of a compass, and the
original model would always operate when pointing north or south, as does
the compass, but would not move when pointed east or west.
Young Hendershot worked nearly two years to overcome this defect, and
finally he brought a motor to the Bettis field that appeared to be working
perfectly. This motor was installed in a small model airplane and the plane
flew, but owing to the failure to rig it properly, it crashed to the ground
during one of the experiments.
Constantly improving the motor, Hendershot finally interested D. Barr
Peat, manager of the Bettis Field, in his invention.
After a short time several capitalist were interested, and a few weeks
ago the motor was taken to Detroit by Hendershot and Peat for an exhibition.
While no person at the field was in position to say authoritatively, it
was stated that the capitalists who become interested in the Hendershot
motor have about completed their arrangements for the purchase of the
invention, or for controlling its production.
The fuelless motor, it is said, appears to have tremendous power and
easily made between 1500 and 2000 revolutions per minute on several
occasions while being tested at the field. Pilots and mechanics believe it
to be the greatest invention of the age, and all appear sure it will be a
practical success as an airship motor.
It was stated at the field that the inspection of the motor by Colonel
Lindbergh was made in the interests of the capitalists who were arranging
to purchase the invention.
New York Times (February 27, 1928)

"Fuelless Motor Is A Generator"

The Hendershot "Fuelless motor" is not a motor at all but a generator,
according to Major Thomas G. lanphier, commandant at Selfridge Field,
Mich., where he with Lester J. Hendershot, the inventor, and D. Barr Peat,
have been quietly working on an experimental model.
Major Lanphier said he first became interested in the Hendershot
electrical machine several weeks ago through Peat; that in common with
others he thought at first it was more or less "bunk" but after seeing it
work he became interested.
"I saw the first model which Hendershot built hooked up to a small
electric motor of the type used to operate a sewing machine. It not only
ran the motor but it burned it out", Major Lanphier said.
Why this generator acts as it does, where the energy comes from that
transforms it into power, Major Lanphier was not prepared to say beyond
quoting Hendershot. It is the inventor’s theory that his machine draws its
energy from the earth’s magnetic field. While unwilling to describe it in
detail until pending patents have been received, Major Lanphier told a
little about it. The first model consisted of a ring magnet less than three
inches in diameter. Around the magnet were coils rigged as only Hendershot
knows how to rig them, and another set of coils pass through the center of
the ring.
"With this contrivance we burned out the sewing machine motor and we also
kept a 6 watt lamp going with it for 26 hours", he said.
The larger model which has not yet been hooked to a motor that will
deliver power to a crankshaft, Major Lanphier himself helped build.
"We put it together out of stuff we picked up at the field and with it
we lighted two 110 watt lamps", Major Lanphier said. "I think that we have
got enough electricity in this second model to k-ll a man".
The second model is built around a ring magnet, the outside diameter of
which is seven inches and the inside diameter six inches.
It was suggested that perhaps the Hendershot engine was "stealing" power
from some big radio broadcasting station.
"We thought of that", Lanphier said, "but we ran it for 26 hours when
stations were going and when they were not and we got the same results".
New York Times (November 12, 1928)
"May Seek Motor


Part 2.

John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com