FUELLESS MOTOR

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1928, Page 5

FUELLESS MOTOR

TESTS MADE AT DETROIT.

DETROIT, March 12. The Detroit Free Press says Colonel Lindbergh and Major! Lanphier tested at the Selfridge Field a new type of motor powered by electric magnetism instead of gasoline. Some authorities predict that it will revolutionise power for aeroplanes, and possibly for motorcars. The motor uses no fuel, but is based upon the principle of electromagnetism as applied to the rotary motion of the earth. It is claimed that the trial exceeded all hopes. “Make it clear to the world that radio and its phenomena have nothing to do with my invention,” said Mr. Lester Hendershot, in an interview regarding his invention of the fuelless motor. “The force which turns my motor is the same that pulls the needle of the common compass, and there is nothing mysterious about that.” Mr. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the induction motor, who recently patent-, cd plans for a helicopter aeroplane, views Mr. Hendershot’s fuelless motor

with great scepticism. Mr. Tesla, who spent many of his 71 years experimenting in taking energy from the sun’s heat and from the earth and air, said the energy obtained from these sources by a small motor can be measured only in so-called mouse-powder. “There is, apart from lightning, no natural electrical source which could be exploited with the practical object of developing power in the amount required for the operation of machinery,” said Mr. Tesla.