FUELLESS MOTOR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 March 1928, Page 9

FUELLESS MOTOR.

TESTS MADE A'T DETROIT,

SCERTICSM OF AN EXPERT. DETROIT, March 12. The “Detroit Free Press” says Colonel Lindbergh and Major Lanphier tested at the Sel'fridge 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 mlotor cars. The motor uses no fuel, but is based upon the principle of electro-magnetism as applied to the rotary motion of the earth. Ii is claimed that the tidal exceeded all hopes.

“Make it clear to the world that radio and its phenomena have nothing to do with my invention,” said Mr Lester Hendersho.t, 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 patented plans for a helicopter aeroplane, views Mr Tien derail ot 5s 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 onl yin so-call-ed mouse-power. “There is, apart from lightning, no natural electrical source fellieh could be exploited with the practical object of developing power in flic amount required for the operation of mnahinerv, ” said Mr Tesla.