On Friday, September 11, 2009 at 12:09:51 PM UTC+7, gabydewilde wrote:
> Around the 1920's Lester Hendershot, a keen aviator, was looking at
> trying to improve the Aviation Compass to make a more reliable
> Compass. He stumbled on a Energy Generator to be later named to the
> Hendershot Fuel-Less Generator. Some called the device the "Hendershot
> Magnetic Motor" or the "Hendershot Fuel-Less Motor".
>
> "Fuelless Motor Impresses Experts"
> New York Times (Sunday, February 26, 1928) - 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
>
> "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.
>
> "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.
>
> "Fuelless Motor Is A Generator"
> New York Times (February 27, 1928) - 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.
>
> "May Seek Motor Patent"
> New York Times (November 12, 1928) - M. C. Kelly to Ask Five
> Scientists to Test Hendershot Device
>
> "Explains Magnet In Fuelless Motor"
> New York Times (February 28, 1928) - Hendershot Says Shifting Its
> Field To east And West Causes Rotary Motion ~ Winding Of Magnet Secret
> ~ Inventor Asserts Engine Weighs But 4 Ounces Per Horsepower
>
> <archive: http://www.rexresearch.com/feg/feg1.htm#hendershot >
>
> 'FUELLESS MOTOR' IS A GENERATOR; New Hendershot Device Has Enough
> Power to 'Kill a Man,' Lanphier Says. EXTENSIVE TESTS AHEAD Major Adds
> That Much Remains to Be Done Before Invention Can Be Applied
> Practically.
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E15FC345D14738DDDAE0A94DA405B888EF1D3
> Hendershot Says Shifting its Field to East and West Causes Rotary
> Motion.
> Winding of Magnet Secret. - Inventor Asserts Engine Weighs about 4
> Ounces Per Horsepower Expected Here Today.
> http://www.hyiq.org/Library/Lester.J.Hendershot.htm
> The New York Times - 1928 February 28 - PITTSBURGH Pen. - Initially
> indignant because the manner in which his fuelless motor gains its
> power had been misrepresented in dispatches from Detroit and
> Washington, Lester J Hendershot today stated there was nothing
> mysterious about his motor that the force that energizes it is the
> "same force that pulls the needle of the compass around, and there is
> nothing mysterious about that".
> The fuelless motor was not his objective, he explained, at the time he
> began his experiments some three years ago, when he first became
> interested in aviation.
> He soon learned that "the ultimate development of aviation depended
> largely upon the discovery or invention of an absolutely true and
> reliable compass," he explained, 'The ordinary magnetic compass does
> not point to the true north - it points to the magnetic north, and
> varies from the true north to a different extent at almost every point
> on the earth's surface." 'There is another compass, the magnetic
> induction compass, that indicates the true north. But it must be set
> before each flight, and is not always reliable."
> "I found that with a pre-magnetized core, I could set up a magnetized
> field that would indicate the true north, but I didn't know just how
> to utilize that in the compass i set out to find." "In continuing my
> experiments, I learned that by cutting the same line of magnetic force
> - north and south, I had an indicator of the true north, and that by
> cutting the magnetic field, east and west, I could develop a rotary
> motion."
> "I now have a motor built on that principle that will rotate at a
> constant speed, a speed predetermined when the motor is built. It can
> be built for any desired speed, and a reliable constant speed motor is
> one of the greatest needs of aviation." The main secret of Mr.
> Hendershot's invention, his friend, Barr Peat declares, is, "the
> method of winding a magnet in the motor so that it will rotate in the
> opposite direction than the earth revolves." He says there is no heat,
> because magnetic forces are cold and the motor is stopped only by
> breaking the magnetic field in the windings. The magnet in the motor,
> he thinks probably would have to be recharged after about 2,000 hours
> of operation.
> Mr. Hendershot declares that one of his motors, complete and ready to
> be installed in an airplane, would weight little more than four ounces
> for every horsepower it developed, while the best of the gas engines
> now built weighs about two pounds per horsepower.
> Mr Hendershot says that altitude would not affect the efficient
> operation of his motor, for the magnetic influence of the earth has
> been found to remain the same as high as man has ever reached.
> He said the same principle which made his original model operate only
> when it was placed in one direction - north and south, will be
> developed so that it will provide a compass that will always indicate
> true north.
> Lester J. Hendershot inventor of the "fuelless motor" or self-driven
> generator or electrical, energy collector, nobody seems to known quite
> Which, is expected in New York today to dissipate some of the mystery
> surrounding his machine. It has aroused a good deal of skepticism
> among men who have dealt with electrical energy all their lives, and
> among physicists who do not believe that the law of the conservation
> of energy has been repealed. However, Major Thomas Lanphier, commander
> of the First Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Henry Breckinridge
> attorney for Colonel Charles A. lindbergh, and D. Barr Peat, a friend
> of Mr. Hendershot, are just as confident that the inventor has
> stumbled on something which may be capable of development into a
> revolutionary power source. Whether the machine has yet arrived in the
> City, Major Lanphier would not say, and he said yesterday that he did
> not care to say anything more about the motor until Mr. Hendershot
> arrives. He did deny again, however, that Colonel lindbergh had any
> interest in the machine aside from his examination of it while at
> Selfridge Field.
>
> LIGHT SHED ON MARVEL MOTOR
> http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/361263342.html?dids=361263342:361263342&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+04%2C+1928&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=LIGHT+SHED+ON+MARVEL+MOTOR&pqatl=google
> Los Angeles Times (March 4, 1928) - Angeleno Offers Explanation of
> Fuelless Apparatus Device Believed to Tap Great Cosmic Field of Force
> Revolutionary Possibilities of Find Cited in Detail..
> Interesting light on the new "fuelless motor," which recently has
> stirred the scientific world, is cast by W. A. Spalding, former
> president of the Academy of Sciences and a well-known resident of Los
> Angeles...
> Article 10 -- No Title (THE MAN WHO HAS TAKEN THE KICK OUT OF MOTORS)
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C1FF83858167A93C6A91788D85F4C8285F9
> New York Times (March 4, 1928) - LESTER J. HENDERSHOT, Inventor of a
> Generator Which Operates Without Fuel, With His Son, Lester J.
> Hendershot ...
> Lamphier to Quit the Army.
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C11FE3559127A93CAA91788D85F4C8285F9
> The New York Times. (March 8, 1928, Thursday) - He is to be associated
> with commercial development of the motor, the invention of Lester J.
> Hendershot Pittsburgh.
> 2,000-Volt Shock From His Fuelless Motor Paralyzes Hendershot During
> Experiment
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00610FF3559127A93C2A81788D85F4C8285F9
> The New York Times. (March 10, 1928, Saturday) - WARSINGTON, March 9.--
> Lester J. Hendershot of West Elizabeth, Pa., who became famous
> overnight as inventor of the so-called "fuelless" motor after Colonel
> Charles A. Lindbergh inspected the machine, is a patient at the
> Emergency Hospital recovering from temporary paralysis.
> HENDERSHOT IN FOG OF RUMORS
> http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/361280732.html?dids=361280732:361280732&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+10%2C+1928&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=HENDERSHOT+IN+FOG+OF+RUMORS&pqatl=google
> LA Times - Los Angeles, Calif. (Mar 10, 1928) - Fuelless Motor
> Inventor Located at Hospital Reports Hint He Suffered Shock or
> Paralysis Lindbergh's Visits Linked With His Name...
> The whereabouts of Lester J. Hendershot, for several days as
> mysterious as details of his invention, the fuelless motor, became
> known today with the discovery that Hendershot has been a patient at
> the Emergency Hospital here since Tuesday afternoon.
> ahhhhh *sob*
> Col. Lindbergh Helps to Test a New Motor, Said to Use Electro-
> Magnetism, No Fuel
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E14FB38551A738DDDAC0A94DA405B888EF1D3
> New York Times - (February 25, 1928) -Colonel Lindbergh and Major
> Lanphier joined in the test with Lester J. Hendershot, the , and D.
> Barr Peat, his business partner, both from Pittsburgh.
> LINDBERGH RETURNS IN 'SURPRISE' HOP; Lands at Curtiss Field With Party
> From Capital, Visiting Baltimore on Way. INVITES CONGRESS TO FLY
> Offers to Take Up All Senate and House Members Next Week-- Conferred
> on Air Mail. Left Washington at 3:05 P.M. Flier's Letter to Congress.
> Confers on Air Mail Service.
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C16FF3B58167A93C4A81788D85F4C8285F9
> The New York Times (March 16, 1928, Friday) CURTISS FIELD, March 15.--
> Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh dropped from the skies to this field
> today on a surprise visit in the Ryan monoplane in which he has been
> touring the country [...] Lester J. Hendershot, in whose motor Colonel
> Lindbergh has been reported interested, is still a patient in the
> Emergency Hospital here, where it was said ...
>
> http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4555862
> Tests of the model of a wonderous no-fuel motor, operated by electro-
> magnetism have been made at the Selfidge flying field near Detroit.
> Only today (writes the New York correspondent of the London "Daily
> Chronicle") am I able to give certain details of some of the results
> of yesterday's experiments.
> Among those who are in the secret and who have witnessed the trials of
> the model are: Colonel Lindbergh, of trans Atlantic flight fame; Mr W.
> B. Stout, head of the Stout Airlines and designer of the all-metal tri-
> motored Ford monoplane; Major Thomas Lanphier, flight commander at the
> Selfidge field.
> This seemingly miraculous machine is the invention of Mr Lester J.
> Hendershot, a Pittsburgh **ELECTRICAL-ENGINEER**
> LATENT POWER MADE ACTIVE.
> A company is being formed to develop it. It functions by a hitherto
> unknown manner of winding the armature. The inventor explains that
> energy is drawn directly from electric currents which exists
> permanently in the air and in the ground. in which are inexhaustible.
> Though properties within the motor it self these potential energies
> are transformed into kinetic energies. Thus power can, is asserted, be
> delivered efficiently at the propeller shaft.
> The model used in the test was about the size of the tiny motor used
> in vacuum cleaners.
> Mr W. B. Stout says:--"The demonstration was very impressive. It was
> actually uncanny. I should very much like to see how a larger model,
> designed to develop power enough to life an aeroplane, would operate."
> Mr Stout is being assured that such a model will be built. Colonel
> Lindbergh declines to express any opinion about it. Mr Lanphier
> commits himself no further than to say that he things the machine has
> great possibilities. (This is a similar scheme to that upon which
> Taff* Jones was working here some time ago.)
> * unreadable name
> ________
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