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| File Name : HUBBARD1.ASC | Online Date : 12/19/95 |
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| Contributed by : Bill Beaty | Dir Category : ENERGY |
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The following was forwarded to KeelyNet by Bill Beaty and Chuck Knight.
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:42:29 -0800 (PST)
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From: William Beaty <bilb@eskimo.com>
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To: keelynet@ix.netcom.com
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cc: William Beaty <billb@mail.eskimo.com>
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Subject: fnrg: Hubbard Article (fwd)
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Here's an old one you might not yet have...
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William Beaty voice:206-781-3320 bbs:206-789-0775 cserv:71241,3623
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EE/Programmer/Science exhibit designer http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/
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Seattle, WA 98117 billb@eskimo.com SCIENCE HOBBYIST web page
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 21:07:40 +0800
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From: Gary Hawkins <ghawk@eskimo.com>
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To: freenrg-list@mail.eskimo.com
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Subject: fnrg: Hubbard Article
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THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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Seattle, Washington, Thursday, July 29, 1920
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Hubbard Coil Runs Boat On Portage Bay Ten Knots An Hour; Auto Test Next
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Seattle Boy Inventor Makes
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Good His Claims of Last
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December When He Announced
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Discovery to P.I.
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HUBBARD'S CLAIMS
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If young Hubbard's claims are correct regarding the newest coil he has
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perfected, and which propelled a boat yesterday, these are a few of the things
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the coil would do without cost other than the initial outlay of $90:
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Drive a large touring car at normal speed.
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Illuminate a moderate-sized office building.
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Furnish current for lighting, cooking, and heating for a large residence
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Heat seven two room apartments.
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Alfred M. Hubbard, Seattle boy inventor of a device which for want of a better
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name he terms an atmospheric power generator, yesterday made good his
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prediction that he would drive a motorboat with the apparatus as a source of
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power.
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An eighteen foot boat, propelled by a thirty-five-horse power electric motor,
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which obtained its current from the Hubbard coil, was driven about Portage Bay
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on Lake Union. Among those who witnessed the demonstration was a well-known
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local capitalist, the inventor's father,William H. Hubbard, and a Post
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Intelligencer reporter.
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The boat traveled at a speed of between eight and ten knots--silently, except
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for the whirring of a chain belt which connected the motor with the propeller
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shaft. When the chain belt was removed, the motor ran free at a speed
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estimated at 3,500 revolutions [the rest of this line is unreadable R.L.R.]
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No Hidden Wires Found.
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To guard against the possibility of ordinary storage batteries concealed about
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the boat as a power source, instead of the Hubbard coil, both electric motor
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and coil were lifted free from their blocks, but no hidden wiring was
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revealed. The coil used as a power unit was eleven inches in diameter and
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fourteen inches in length. According to Hubbard, tests of the coil show a
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current of 280 amperes and 125 volts, which, he pointed out was equivalent to
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approximately forty-five horse power, or sufficient to drive an automobile.
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The current is pulsating.
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The electric motor was approximately twelve inches in diameter eighteen inches
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in length. It had been reconstructed in order to be used with the Hubbard
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coil.
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After his ride in the strange powered craft the capitalist declared that he
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was frankly puzzled, but that he desired an electrical engineer in his employ
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to make an examination of the coil before he felt free to discuss it.
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Since last December, when the Post-Intelligencer first made public the claims
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of the youthful inventor, he has been more or less in retirement, perfecting
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his coil. He took up his residence in Everett where, with the assistance of
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Everett backers he worked on his device.
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A local capitalist agreed to witness a demonstration of the coil to determine
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its practicability as a power source. The motorboat was fitted with blocks on
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which to rest the motor and the propeller shaft geared for a chained belt.
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When the motor was first tried out after its installation in the boat it ran
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backwards. So involved are the connections between the motor and the coil
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that fully a half-hour's experimentation was necessary before the motor shaft
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revolved in the right direction.
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That the capitalist was frankly skeptical of the device was plain when he,
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with two other passengers, boarded the boat at the Seattle Yacht Club wharf.
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All the machinery that was visible was the coil and the motor, the latter
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plainly geared to the propeller shaft. The boat shoved off, Hubbard threw the
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switch, and instantly the boat began to pick up speed.
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It circled about the bay and returned to the wharf, with never a slackening of
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speed. The wires connecting coil and motor had begun to heat under the
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excessive current, and, fearing that some part of the coil might give way
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under the extra heavy strain put on it, Hubbard declined to permit the motor
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to be run continuously for any length of time. It was tried out later several
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times, after brief periods which allowed the wires to cool, and its power
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apparently showed no diminution. No instruments were used to test its
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wattage.
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The capitalist admitted that the demonstration intrigued his interest, but
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that he would wait for his expert's opinion before discussing it.
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Following the demonstration, the young inventor declared that within a few
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days he expected to drive an automobile with the coil as a power unit.
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The Coil used yesterday had been built especially for the demonstration, and
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is nearly twice the size of the coil Hubbard used in his demonstration last
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winter. The large coil cost approximately $90 to construct. The inventor
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says that so far as he has been able to learn its life as a power unit is
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indefinite. He declared that a coil large enough to drive an airplane would
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be no more than three times the size of the coil used yesterday, and that a
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machine thus equipped could fly around the world without stopping, so far as
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the power supply is concerned.
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While the device has been patented, the claims for it are so broad that
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Hubbard says he does not feel safe in making public his secret. In general,
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he says, it is made up of a group of eight electro-magnets, each with primary
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and secondary windings of copper wire, which are arranged around a large steel
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core. The core likewise has a single winding.
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A coil thus constructed, he says, is lifeless until given an initial impulse.
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This is done by connecting the ends of its windings for a fraction of a second
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to an ordinary [two words unreadable R.L.R.] -ing circuit, he says.
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The manner of this momentary charging, however, constitutes the principal
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secret of the device, according to the inventor, who says that while
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machinists have built a number of coils for him under his direction, they have
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been unable to "start" them. In the event the power of the coil should
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diminish, it can be rejuvenated in less than a second, Hubbard says.
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Photo captions
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1 -- Arrangement of Hubbard coil and motor in boat. The motor is nearest the
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bow.
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2 -- Alfred M. Hubbard, inventor of the coil used as a power unit.
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3 -- The boat under way, driven by a motor which obtained its power from the
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Hubbard coil.
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Photos by Walter P. Miller, Post-Intelligencer Staff Photographer.
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Horizon Technology Tomorrow's Technology Today
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http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ Seattle, WA
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Taken from the Vanguard Sciences Roundtable newsletter (VSRTOCT.95);
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On another note, got a call from Mark Hendershott last night, son of Lester
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Hendershott. A couple of months before the Tesla conference, someone posted a
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note on KeelyNet email saying they heard Mark on a local radio interview where
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he claimed to have duplicated his fathers' device and would be demonstrating
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it at the 1995 International Tesla Society conference. A later call from Don
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Smith down in Houston indicated Mark could not make the ITS, so Don had been
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called as a backup speaker.
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Mark says he never realized there was so much interest in his fathers work and
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has only begun to study what all has been written, some of which is in error.
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One particular point was that the Borderlands book on Hendershott specifies 24
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turns on the top coil, when in fact, it should be two coils of 12 turns. If
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you will recall, the Hendershott device used a basketweave coil as is found on
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early 1900 radio receivers.
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Ed Skilling promoted the use of these basketweave coils in Hendershott
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circuits several years back but he has kind of gone away after being captured
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on a hidden camera at a New York health conference, making the outright claim
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that he could CURE cancer. Having met Ed on several occasions, I personally
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think he is an excellent electronics man and has worked with both Bob Beck and
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Jerry Friedenstine in the field of advanced radionics.
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When Puharich's Teslar watches were the rage, Ed figured out a circuit that
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would measure the 7.8 cycles per second emitted by these watches. The idea
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was the earth's atmospheric cavity resonated at 7.8 cps and that we are
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isolated from such earth frequencies by living in a synthetic environment.
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The watches have an oscillator that is tuned to the 7.8 cps and broadcast this
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frequency as a scalar field through an internal Faraday cage. Since the
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Faraday cage suppresses electromagnetic energies, you could not get a signal
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from the watches that could be measured. Not to mention that electronic
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devices have a very hard time getting a sample at such very low frequencies.
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So, Ed had developed a box with a plate on it and and LED display that
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constantly changed. When you put your watch on the plate, it would detect the
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scalar signal and display the frequency on the readout. I was impressed with
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the unit and Ed and I began discussing it. He was very proud of it for two
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reasons, first that the circuit could sense not only the 'scalar' signal but
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also derive the frequency.
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Skilling's technique was quite novel and took advantage of a circuit known as
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a PLL (phase locked loop) in its multiplier mode. An incoming frequency would
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have positive and negative transitions that would remain relatively stable
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over the length of the half cycle, no matter how long the wave. So the PLL
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was adjusted to pick up the zero crossing points (when the signal went from
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negative to positive and back again) and multiply them by 200 to get a useable
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frequency for CMOS or TTL circuits. It was a marvelous and useful circuit.
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(A few years later, when we had Puharich in Dallas, some of us techies were
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discussing other ways this signal could be detected.....a fellow calling
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himself Golden Hawk said he had placed a PENNY on the watch face and hooked an
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oscilloscope probe to the penny, the signal came through loud and clear! We
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believe their might be some kind of capacitive field (the pure electric wave)
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which was intercepted by the coin in close proximity to the antenna, maybe
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even a feedback/reflection from the coin to the Faraday cage...anyway, it was
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neat, simple and clean and needs to be shared.)
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Back to Hendershott, Mark says he has a book that he sells for $29.95 and
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might soon have a video showing how to construct the coils. Once he realized
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there was such an interest, he began contacting all the relatives and
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soliciting pieces of his fathers work, papers, components, memorabilia, so
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that it would not be lost through dispersion. This happens more than enough
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to researchers who die and fail to donate their materials to a stable group
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who will do something useful with them besides landfill. The Franklin
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Institute is one such institution and the ITS is also trying to achieve that
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kind of stability.
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We desparately need some kind of perpetual, non-profit oriented organization
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not only to serve as an archive, but also to promote and educate alternative
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thought and experiments in science. That is what the Vanguard Sciences
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Research Center is all about, but not many people can see the bigger picture,
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especially philanthropist/investors, with all its implications, so to date, we
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have no solid leads on funding.
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If you might be interested in learning what is available with the Hendershott
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coil, you can contact Mark directly at his home. He also needs advice and
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counsel on how best to get some kind of income to fund his own experiments
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with his fathers circuit designs. Although he has several files which he
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found of interest, we will be sending him other information which directly
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correlates with his fathers work. Tell him KeelyNet sent you....
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Mark Hendershott
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15221 342nd Ave. NE
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Duvall, WA 98019
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Home/FAX (206) 788-5486
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