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August 25, 1991
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LAITH1.ASC
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This file is from the Sunday, November 10, 1974, Indianopolis Star.
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Scientist says Invention can Defy Gravity
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London (AP)
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A British scientist said yesterday he is on the threshold of
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inventing an antigravity motor that could fly a manned spaceship to
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the stars using nuclear fuel the size of a pea.
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Eric Laithwaite, professor of heavy electrical engineering at
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London's Imperial College of Science and Technology, said the motor
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is based on the gyroscope, a rapidly spinning top that defies
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gravity. Gyroscopes already are used to guide spaceships.
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"The motor is not easy to explain. If it was, others would have
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tried to produce one by now," said Laithwaite, who described himself
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as an astro engineer.
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Laithwaite began working on the motor about six months ago after
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Edwin Rickman, who works with an electrical engineering firm, came
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to him with the idea. Rickman had patented it after he said it came
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to him in recurring dreams. Laithwaite incorporated in the device
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ideas of another amateur inventor, Alex Jones.
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Although Laithwaite is far from the production stage with his motor
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to defy gravity, the 53-year old professor demonstrated his
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principle Friday at the Royal Institution at London.
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Inside a box he brought before his distinguished audience were two
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electrically driven gyroscopes, each placed on a central pivot.
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Laithwaite made the gyroscopes rotate at high speed, and they rose
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into the air on the arms until they reached a curved rail that
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pushed them down again. The process then repeated itself.
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With the two gyroscopes motionless, the box weighed 20 pounds on an
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ordinary kitchen scale. With the gyroscopes spinning, the
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contraption weighed 15 pounds.
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Laithwaite said the loss of weight corresponded to the gravity loss
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produced by the spinning gyroscopes. Theoretically, the machine
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could produce weightlessness, Laithwaite said.
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A spaceship with his device could be blasted from the earth's
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gravitational field with conventional rocket fuel, Laithewaite said.
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Then, without friction to hamper the anti-gravity engine, nuclear
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power or solar energy could begin operating the gyroscopes and to
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drive the vehicle to other solar systems, he said.
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Laithwaite is the inventor of the electrical linear motor capable of
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propelling a device through strong magnetic currents.
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He said the antigravity motor also could be adapted to drive ships
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and land vehicles silently but added: "Man is not interested in
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traveling horizontally. He always wants to go up."
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Laithwaite said the antigravity motor is based on electromagnetism
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and vector multiplication "too complicated to explain."
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Then he tried:
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"Let me put it this way:
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You take a go-kart with no engine and sit in it. It is
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loaded with a box of lead balls. If you throw one ball out
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behind you, you move forward a little. Throw another and
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you move farther still and so on.
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But if these lead balls were attached to a strong elastic
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band and could be sprung back into the go-kart, you would
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have continuous propulsion. That is what a gyroscope does
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when it moves from one plane to another."
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