FUELLESS MOTORS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 8

FUELLESS MOTORS

TESTS AT DETROIT SCEPTISM FROM AN EXPERT. DETROIT, March 18. The Detroit Free Press says Colonel Lindbergh and Alajor 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 fur motor-cars. The (motor uses no fuel, but is based upon the pilnciple of electro-magnetism as applied to the rotary motion of the earth. It is claimed that the trial exceeded nil hopes.

“Alake it clear to the world that radio and its phenomena have nothing to do with my invention,” said Air 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?’

Air Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the induction motor, who recently patented plans for a helicopter aeroplane, views Air Hendershot’s fuelless motor with great sceptism. Air 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 bo measured only in so-called mouse-power.

“There is, apart from lightning, no natural electric source which could bo exploited with the practical object of developing power in the amount required for the operaton of machinery,” said Mr Tesla.