Mr Lester J Hendershot's magnetic generator.

[morpher44]

response to Bob.

I believe it is your videos on You-Tube I watched last night. I see you lined the coils with a metal of sorts. I also have been reading the considerable posts between Graham and Chris. They too mention a core in the coils. What did you use? Is it necesary?
...
Back to the business at hand. I wound the basket weave coil with a base of copper enamaled wire 18 g. 12 times. The next level I used insulated 14 ga. wire 6 turns topped by another winding the same just a different color. As you have all mentioned there are tons of variables. I chose to use the two 500 mfd caps inside the basketweave coils and four 1000 mfd caps on the outside with two five to one transformers. Are you aware of anyone else that has gone this route? Anybody out there had any success?

Bob

Hi Bob,
re: not seeing external power in video
We live in a day and age where hoaxing video is very easy.
There are very nice "free" video editing tools. Even if this was
"live" video, power can be sent wirelessly. That is easy to do
with inductive coupling, pioneered by the work of Tesla.

re: cylinders IN Hendershot coil.
The "free" material on the web I was referring are some books you can find.
One is titled "The Hendershot Motor Mystery", compiled by Tom Brown,
Borderland Sciences, (c) 1988.
Another really good one is "Secrets of Perpetual Power, the Hendershot Mystery", by Barry Hilton. I really like this latter book because it gives
many "speculative" schematics to try and has other valuable information.
NOTE: These are FREE and you can find them using google search.
They give FAR more info than that hoaxed video thing you purchased.
One thing that hoaxed video doesn't discuss or show is how to make the
"hand-made" capacitors that Hendershot PUT into his cylinders.
They didn't put this detail in the hoax because they knew it would be
too difficult for most people -- and a real turn-off .. and they wanted
your money.

Re: capacitors shown in video.
Yeah those were all wrong relative to the older information from 1988. Realize that large capacitors like this server various purposes. One is to prevent the flow of DC voltages thru certain parts of the circuit -- only letting AC pass. Another is to LAG the signal with a timing constant -- thus changing the signals phase. Hendershot used 40MFD and 80MFD caps in his fuelless generator. Not knowing what he was up to and which schematic is which, the reasons for why he used these is unclear. Either these are just the ones he could find and the values don't matter too much ... OR ... they are very specific values that MUST be used for the frequencies he's tuning and the phase shifting he's doing, etc. Realize that the buzzer is a low-frequency device. Further, a large CAP like this can prevent SPARKING across metal surfaces -- such as in a relay. If your goal it to replicate "exactly" what Hendershot did, then you need 40MFD and 80MFD caps - 450VAC. If your just tinkering and want to alter the recipe ... then "BIG" caps are good enough. Be sure, however, when grabbing a capacitor with your hands to always SHORT them first before touching them.

[hywystr]

What I have built.

[ATTACH]Hendershot diagram.jpg[/ATTACH][ATTACH]Hendershot diagram.jpg[/ATTACH]I do not know how to attach the diagram but it says here it is attached.

So everything you paid for was FREE on the web.
The sale of this bogus "plan" is a rip-off.
I don't want to discourage you from this hobby, however. It is fascinating.
The instructions explained nothing and people on this forum, and other places, are trying to work out what might be going on with the Hendershot devices. He had several iterations ranging from a toy that powered his son's toy plane (seen in a newspaper article Feb. 27, 1928.

Interestingly, the chronology here is:
2/24/1928 - first articles start appearing about Hendershot's fuelless generator
2/27/1928 - Many newspapers have the article now...
2/28/1928 - ONE-DAY-LATER, it is already being debunked and Hendershot
is accused of fraud, etc.
3/9/1928 - newspaper articles appear that Hendershot is in hospital after
receiving serious SHOCK. He is paralyzed, can't speak,
especially can't speak to reporters.
more debunking... what Hendershot is doing
has already been attempted by folks in the late 1800s with
prior art, patents, etc. They mention "electrometer", and
Tesla is asked about it and Tesla is skeptical. Hubbard is also
mentioned. Debunking is real "THICK" at this point.
3/10/1928 - more articles about him in hospital
3/26/1928 - more "debunking" articles
.... after this date ... silence about Hendershot....

I find it amazing that in such a short time Hendershot goes from being a "genius" with amazing invention to a fraud with a carefully constructed debunking campaign, showing off devices that don't work, and hiding Hendershot from the press, etc.

So Bob, I'm starting to come to the conclusion that what we really need to figure out is not how to build this device "as Hendershot did", which is interesting, but "painful" and "primitive". What we are really after here are principals that can be applied to the construction of a more modern "self-powered" generator.

With step-wise refinement, we might be able to achieve that goal, but we shouldn't LIMIT ourselves to old-school approaches. For example, Hendershot was not using DIODES. Pretty amazing ... but we should restrict ourselves to doing it the same way as him. Hendershot struggled with reliability and had to "cheat" with little batteries. I find that not be such a "cheat" because you probably do need to provide power at first to get it to move into higher-levels of magnetic fields. Hendershot had a crazy circuit that doesn't really make sense in terms of conventional circuit design. He wasn't "educated" in circuit analysis, but I can tell that he WAS educated in induction-compass, Earth's field, formulas for solenoids and number of turns, etc. and how to best wind a coil to reduce self-capacitance (basketweave and honeycomb, etc.). These are state-of-the-art RADIO engineering practices of his day.
Find "Wireless Magazine" from 1926, 1927, 1928, etc. and honeycomb coil TABLES and long discussions about them can be found. Obviously Hendershot was reading this stuff, or exposed to engineers who know about coils.

So here are some of my thoughts about a modern approach:

* need low-power to start the effect. The best circuit I've found for this
is the "TATE" ambient power circuit which uses germanium diodes,
and capacitors and an antenna and ground. Very easy... works great.
* need an oscillating "chopper" circuit. It needs to be square-waves and
not sign-waves to produce "fast" pole-reversals in the solenoid with
narrow pulse-width, and very low-power duty cycle.
The 555 timer can do this with pretty low power. To get the solenoid
to produce a LARGE magnetic effect towards the keeper and magnet,
you will need to match the solenoid coil with the strength of the magnet.
So of the magnet is say 20 milliTeslas and you want 20 milliTeslas out
of your solenoid with a certain current, you can "derive" the number of
turns you need -- given other solenoid geometry.
The "TATE" circuit and your antenna might not provide enough juice
for the solenoid, 555, etc. ... so instead use battery power @ first
to prototype this.
* need "tuned" circuit for pick up of the oscillations created by the magnet.
Unlike "radio" tuned circuits, we are tuning for oscillations much lower.
The oscillations can be 40 to 180Hz if we are taking "buzzer" frequencies
or can be 1.3khz to 3khz if we are talking Earth's NMR frequencies ...
or can be much much higher such as 1.4Ghz if we are talking
full-wave reception into metal cylinders inside your coil. I think Hendershot
was using high-frequency reception to create magnetic field oscillations --
"beat frequencies" that could then be harnessed using lower-frequency
tuned circuits. Hence, various "stages" are tuned various ways
with consideration for "phase" and other things. These are non-trivial
circuit analysis problems, but not "impossible" to figure out. A good
circuit simulator might help. One thing lacking in circuit simulators, however,
is the accounting of the all the "mutual-induction" and the notion of
"positive-feedback" using energy "received" from the outside of
a closed circuit.
* need "low resistance" load "in-circuit". It becomes just part of the circuit
adding the the "R" in an "LRC" circuit. If you keep R small enough,
oscillations can continue. Be too greedy with "R", such as trying to run
some HEATER that you sit by when its cold ... oscillations stop, circuit
doesn't work. So lighting is possible because bulbs are low resistance.
Heating elements ... much more difficult ... much more juice.

Unlike "radio", a large magnet may be a sort of "magnetic field antenna".
In radio, to receive long-waves down in the 2khz range, you would need a very very very long antenna ... even if that antenna was Quarter-Wave.
Yet a MAGNET ... and a BAR ... and a COIL ... may be a different sort
of antenna that is long-wave and can couple with the Earth's field
since METAL responds to the Earth's field. I.e. you can provide a
quick magnetic pulse and make the electrons and protons in the metal
spin for a time ... As these spins start to settle down, feeling the drag
of the Earth's field, they start to adjust and spin with the Earth's magnetic
field. So all around us we have a magnetic field -- kinda weak though -- that will take what we have done SPIN-WISE ... and alter it into what it wants to do SPIN-WISE... We provide a little power ... the Earth undoes our power ... and puts things BACK to what it wants restoring balance.
Resonance matters because like pushing a child on a swing, we need
our pulses to be exactly right so that we can HARNESS the Earth's field
properly.

I think many of us have been working out ideas like this ... and the real challenge here is building a machine to do this that is self powered.
I feel, however, the design of this machine need not be Hendershot's original schematic (given we can't find that ... there are several alternate schematics and a disinfo campaign to contend with). Rather, we need to understand what is going on here and make NEW machines that harness energy this "new" way.

This challenge needs to be approached with great respect too because if it is indeed "easy" to do ... the geo-political ramifications of this are non-trivial ... and "change" comes with great risk and resistance.

You can either "share everything you do" freely with the world and not swet it ... or have really really good security and keep your notes under lock and key.

Welcome to the puzzle.
-morpher44

[morpher44]

deep purple...

So Bob,

The 500MFD caps in the coils you have, wired to your L1 coil ... not good.
Plugging in 125uH for the coil for this tank circuit, we see that it
resonates at 636hz BUT ... and a big BUT ... Q is only 6
and according to T.H. Moray's math, this tank circuit WONT oscillate.
4L/C is a terrible 1.0.

What Hendershot had here was a hand-made 7.8nF capacitor wrapped around a metal cylinder.
Further, just today I realized that this capacitor may not be wired to L1 at all.
Rather, it may just self oscillate at Ghz frequencies.
L1 may also oscillate at Ghz frequencies -- and "hugely" wide band, if wired to itself.
So if Hendershot was tuning for something really high, like 1 Ghz or higher,
L1 would be wired to itself ... and his hand-made CAP would just be in the coil, but not wired to anything.

So the mod you can make here to start is to
* wrap 2 Hendershot caps - 7.8nF each and place in a cylinder
* cylinder can be aluminum (magnetic or not -- not sure)
* wire L1 to itself.

Next as to your schematic ... I wouldn't trust the schematic from the video.
Compare it to the schematics in the Barry Hilton book.

[hywystr]

Hendershot Generator.

Thank you Morpher for your reply. I have been working in the field for 26 years repairing hot tubs and swimming pools. I have gotten into circuit board diagnostics and replacing the parts. I have a book on electronics but am not familiar with some of your terms. Thank you for the clues you have given me below. What does the uH stand for? I do not follow Q either. I am painfully aware the tank circuit I made does not oscillate. You did not mention anything about the metal lining on the basket weave coils? As far as duplicating exactly what Lester did I am more interested in building something that I can use. I do appreciate your suggestions and will investigate if they help? I trust you were able to look over the post I did of the drawing to show what I have built, sitting in my dining room. Where can I find the directions you mention to hand make the caps Lester made? I would think that all the people interested in this, on this site, should be able to work together and build something that works. A lot of time is wasted if we are duplicating our efforts. As far as a "hobby" goes, I am serious about building a device I can hook my house up to. Bob

So Bob,

The 500MFD caps in the coils you have, wired to your L1 coil ... not good.
Plugging in 125uH for the coil for this tank circuit, we see that it
resonates at 636hz BUT ... and a big BUT ... Q is only 6
and according to T.H. Moray's math, this tank circuit WONT oscillate.
4L/C is a terrible 1.0.

What Hendershot had here was a hand-made 7.8nF capacitor wrapped around a metal cylinder.
Further, just today I realized that this capacitor may not be wired to L1 at all.
Rather, it may just self oscillate at Ghz frequencies.
L1 may also oscillate at Ghz frequencies -- and "hugely" wide band, if wired to itself.
So if Hendershot was tuning for something really high, like 1 Ghz or higher,
L1 would be wired to itself ... and his hand-made CAP would just be in the coil, but not wired to anything.

So the mod you can make here to start is to
* wrap 2 Hendershot caps - 7.8nF each and place in a cylinder
* cylinder can be aluminum (magnetic or not -- not sure)
* wire L1 to itself.

Next as to your schematic ... I wouldn't trust the schematic from the video.
Compare it to the schematics in the Barry Hilton book.

[Dave45]

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewa...tml#post223133

[morpher44]

basic electronics...

TWhat does the uH stand for? I do not follow Q either. I am painfully aware the tank circuit I made does not oscillate. You did not mention anything about the metal lining on the basket weave coils? As far as duplicating exactly what Lester did I am more interested in building something that I can use. I do appreciate your suggestions and will investigate if they help? I trust you were able to look over the post I did of the drawing to show what I have built, sitting in my dining room. Where can I find the directions you mention to hand make the caps Lester made? I would think that all the people interested in this, on this site, should be able to work together and build something that works. A lot of time is wasted if we are duplicating our efforts. As far as a "hobby" goes, I am serious about building a device I can hook my house up to. Bob

uH - micro Henry. The Henry is the unit for inductance.
Henry (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Q - read up on LRC circuits and resonance.
Q factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is Q for parallel LRC circuits and Q for series LRC circuits.
For Parallel Q, Q = R * sqrt(C/L). You also want to learn about
impedance - reactance
You want Q to be BIG
re: cylinders -- covered in the "Hendershot Replication" thread.

btw, you can read the many posts dating back to 2009.
There is a lot of material here to go thru.
You need a good book on Basic Electronics. One that discusses
resonant circuts in particular and impedance.
You can also "google search" for these things.

[mikec_ut]

Finished Mk1

All,

I have just finished my Hendershot Mk1 version. This has been interesting to get a feel of who Lester Hendershot was and how much of an induction genius he must have been. I have included a couple of pictures, sorry for them being a little blurry but I don't have a closeup capable camera just hanging around when I wanted to take pictures. The white ruler is only 6 inches long but it will give you an idea of scale.

But of course it didn't work and I had no expectations of it working. You must realize who prepared the patent information and most of the other detailed data about this device. The lawyer who did not get any input for Hendershot on whether the information he presented in the patent description was correct or the letter of questions sent to Hendershot that was never answered.

Now comes the fun part of what was really going on and how these parts should act. Mutual inductance, resonant frequencies with magnetic amplifies and oscillators were a natural thing back in his day. So, this is going to take a while to figure out. This should be fun.

Background: For 30 years I have had a schematic diagram that was used in a research project with hand written notes of events that accrued during the testing process. It would surface now and again but I never through it out. This schematic was signed by a name that I have never seen while investigating energy devices. When researching Hendershot devices I saw a schematic that reminded me of one I had seen before. I searched for the saved schematic and found that the scrabbled signature on the schematic was Ed Skilling dated back in the 50's. Lester J. Hendershot was the originator of the diagram but this version was what Skilling observed when he was trying to duplicate the Hendershot device under the direction of Hendershot. But research revealed that no one has been able to duplicate the Hendershot Mk3 device even though many have tried. Trying to understand this device I decided to start at the beginning. The Hendershot device was unknown until after he made the toy model plane for his son. The 4 pictures of other early devices looked to be more along the line of induction compass prototypes and not the Hendershot generator or motor. Because of the complexity of the induction interaction process I wanted to start in the beginning with the toy plane that only operated when oriented in one direction.

So the adventure begins.

[morpher44]

Because of the complexity of the induction interaction process I wanted to start in the beginning with the toy plane that only operated when oriented in one direction.
So the adventure begins.

Mikeec_ut,
Wow! Great work. I am very excited about this. This is something I want
to do as well when I get a break from my day job.
I like the idea of going back to the "first" invention.
It occurred to me that what we are seeing in terms of this patent
application and what your are building may actually NOT be the first device.

The newspaper PHOTO of Hendershot and son "with PLANE" is black and
white and difficult to see. But if you stare at it long enough, you start to see
the outline of the plane the boy is holding. It looks to me to be no more
than 18 inches long and with a propeller that is pretty large -- say 5 inches
or so. The "motor-device" would be inside the plane up near the propeller.
It would BE a motor, with its windings "changed" and perhaps some
other circuitry and Hendershot came up with.

So in the device you built, there is a ring magnet, I suppose.
Do you imagine it be "fixed" in place or do you imagine it SPINs
in the cylinder provided for it?

I think Hendershot's plane would SPIN the propeller.

Hence, we are looking for a new way of making either an AC motor
or a DC motor. Interesting that the device you are working on is
suppose to produce AC. Since Hendershot's schematic here appears
to have NO diodes for rectification of the AC, this AC might go
directly over to an AC motor. He may have harvested a tiny
AC motor from some sewing machine, since a "sewing machine" sized
motor was mentioned. Further, in one of the photos of his MARKIII,
you see a big-ole motor in a box off to the side.

So the thing you built might need to connect to a motor ... and
the motor TOO, as a load, plays a role in the mutual induction.
OR
There is an even older MOTOR modification that Hendershot had done.

[hywystr]

Hendershot.

Thank you for the clues. I see I need to do more research and bone up on the principles. Hopefully enough people get interested in this to produce something usable.

uH - micro Henry. The Henry is the unit for inductance.
Henry (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Q - read up on LRC circuits and resonance.
Q factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is Q for parallel LRC circuits and Q for series LRC circuits.
For Parallel Q, Q = R * sqrt(C/L). You also want to learn about
impedance - reactance
You want Q to be BIG
re: cylinders -- covered in the "Hendershot Replication" thread.

btw, you can read the many posts dating back to 2009.
There is a lot of material here to go thru.
You need a good book on Basic Electronics. One that discusses
resonant circuts in particular and impedance.
You can also "google search" for these things.

[morpher44]

the magnet SPINS?

L6 is also shown to be wound around M7, thus indicating a permanent magnetic core,
and yet a permanent magnet core cannot but render assymmetrical any coil induced field, unless,
that magnetic core has a deliberately weak field such that all it might do is cancel the Earth's natural field and leave L6 working entirely naturally within the honeycombs ?
Or could it be that there are a pair of polarly opposing magnets glued together which appear like a normal magnet at their outer ends, but where the L6 overwind could then induce a resultant rotating field within the honeycombs ?
If L6 is to do no more than electromagnetically energise a physically resonant metallic element, is it merely influencing the field of L6, or is there some other undocumented circuit coupling ?

Is it possible that an L6 induced alternating or rotating field could cyclically augment the field of the simultaneously energised honeycomb winding,
and thus spatially energise L13 and L14 equally but oppositely,
which might then serially energise L4,
and thence the L19 + L22 + L25 windings,
all of these constituting a 360 degree phase shifted feedback loop between output and L6, this being a requirement for self sustainably of oscillation ?

As I mentioned before, I believe that the transformer laminations stated to surround L19 and L25 are deliberate disinformation to ensure that replicators could never succeed, though there might well have been a silver painted grained wooden frame to support those fine wire windings, this giving the impression of transformer laminations. Certainly no gigahertz possilities here, and thus not with the directly connected L6 and honeycombs either !
...
Cheers ........... Graham.
.

I've been thinking about this. If Hendershot evolved this more complicated
approach from his more simple Toy Airplane Motor idea, after working
with some pretty smart engineers enlisted by the army, AND
if the Toy Airplane also used a ring magnet on an axis, might we not
think that the ring magnet is made to SPIN within the near-flat
surrounding honeycomb coil?

If you put a ring magnet with a hole in it over a pencil, and then
move another magnet around the circumference of that magnet,
since its flat faces are N and S, the magnet will tweak off kilter
relative to the axis (given there is a bit of play here).
Now imagine that you've wrapped a thin COIL on a former
that sits around this ring magnet. When current flows through
that coil, it will induce a magnetic field that will either add or
subtract with the magnets field. It will PUSH it along that axis
outword, or inward. If the axis is not allowed to move, and if the
magnet is slightly off kilter, might it not spin instead?
Attach a propeller to it, and you have a toy plane.
You have cut the field East-West per the Hendershot description.

As for the coil. You can't just have a solenoid style coil.
If you do the math on this, you would need a HUGE amount
of turns and wire. You need a "different" way of winding the
coil to give you a LARGE magnetic field with very little current
and less wire.
Knowing a bit about Radio, you might go to a honeycomb coil,
because you can read right in the books about them that
you can create a larger inductance with less wire and less capacitance.
Further, the wire ideally is thinner, smaller gauge with the
two pegs of the honeycomb former being close, the thickness
of your magnet. Another thing that occurs to me is that
each place the wire crosses on the honeycomb coil, there is an associated
diamond shape being made around the pegs. This diamond shape,
according the right-hand-rule, would allow for a sort of
Walter Russell intersection vortex area, which create virtual
spokes all around the coil. As the magnet SPINs, each of
these "virtual spokes", spin as well, inducing current in the coil
and adding positive feedback as velocities increase -- up
to some equilibrium. That equilibrium is the function of the
resistance in the wire, the magnetic balance you've achieved,
the other background noise entering the system (RF and EMF), etc.

I can't wait to try this. It will be tricky to build. You have to make
a nice honeycomb coil that matches your ring magnet perfectly
so that with the least amount of current you can counter-effect
the magnet inside. The orientation relative to the Earth's field only
matters if the magnetic field your dealing with is in the milliTesla
to microTesla range. For a toy it certainly would be, using weaker
magnets.

The circuit itself may be very simple. Just short the coil to itself,
but also attach it to a metallic plate since the plate, ala Tesla,
will be picking up a slight amount of radiant energy, and RF, etc.
There will be high-voltage transients that BURN quickly through the
coil, with the time-constant per the length of the wire, creating
a magnetic field as it goes. The real trick here is to have a coil
that is easily wound, uses less wire, but can create a STRONG
magnetic field, with a very very tiny current. The other difficulty
is removing friction and keeping everything isolated.

You DIY people out there, interested in this challenge?

[morpher44]

magnet off kilter

Oscilloscope Affected by Spinning an Angled Magnet - YouTube

[mikec_ut]

Re: Finished Mk1

@Morpher,
I enjoy all of the extra information, ever little bit helps.

One of the reasons that I selected the first version was that there was really 3 of them. The first was a toy plane built for his son. I believe the photo of the toy plane sitting on a wood stand was that first version. The photo mentioned that included both father and son was a bit bigger as stated by Morpher in a previous post. None of the witnesses liked the first version because it only worked while positioned in one direction. Hendershot then worked a long time to get a version that would work in all directions. The photo with the free standing model plane that both father and son were holding has a longer prop, wider wing span, longer body, etc. This model I believe was the one that could work in any direction and might really fly. This was the second version. The patent description was taken from both of these devices. The third version of Hendershot device, which was much bigger was built by the engineers at the air base. This version was so impressive that it was taken to Washington to be demo'ed to the military. Then other things happened at that point.

It appears that this first device could be scaled to any size and it would still work. I hope the principles that are used on this first device can be rediscovered. Oh! Yea! I am a sucker for people that have dreams and then build what the dream about and it becomes national news.

The adventure continues.

Background on build: I used the photo with the toy plane on the wood stand and made an assumption that the wood plate of the stand was 1/4 inch thick. By taking the angle of the plane in the photo I calculated the size of the device contained within the opening visible in the photo. This method gave me a starting point to build the Mk1 device.

[morpher44]

me too

Oh! Yea! I am a sucker for people that have dreams and then build what the dream about and it becomes national news.

Me too!. And what is great about this mystery is the nice paper trail.

A well known experiment they do in physics classes to teach Lenz's Law
is to drop a ring magnet down a copper pipe.

Suppose instead of a pipe, you had a coil. Suppose also the geometry
you set up has the magnet not actually falling, but moving in a sort of
artificially create magnetic "gravity-like" well.

Tesla's Egg of Columbus solves the problem, not by cheating, not be
bumping the egg on the table to make one side flat, and then
standing it w/o effort. Tesla has to go and do it the hard way,
with a spinning magnetic VORTEX and an Egg with a magnet inside.
Tesla was bad ass!!!

If the oscillating magnetic well/vortex could be created using "ambient" subtle energies... removing friction -- low inertia:

Super low friction bearing - YouTube

and harvesting the oscillations w/o impeding those oscillations,
you don't violate the laws of physics, and the machine is NOT
perpetual. It just has a very long damped oscillation with
a positive feedback connection to itself to increase gain.
The energy does need to come from some place, and we
certainly have lots of energy all around us. It may not take
very much to create a small magnetic field that allows a magnet
to spin up to create larger fields, and so on.

[mikec_ut]

Video

@morpher
I like the low friction video. Also I have enjoyed all the other videos that you have made on the Hendershot topic. I watched (I believe) your latest video on the honeycomb coil and the ring magnet, good job.

It is going to be one of the little things that is going to push the technology in to the future, so keep up the good work.

I have been studying Magnetic Amplifiers to see how that might apply to the Hendershot devices. The comment made about Lester having an natural knack to wind coils to his specification by look, feel and audio sound makes the replication a lot harder. The Magnetic Amplifier is another lost art that existed at the time this invention was created.

The adventure continues.

[morpher44]

military classification

@morpher
It is going to be one of the little things that is going to push the technology in to the future, so keep up the good work.

I have been studying Magnetic Amplifiers to see how that might apply to the Hendershot devices. The comment made about Lester having an natural knack to wind coils to his specification by look, feel and audio sound makes the replication a lot harder. The Magnetic Amplifier is another lost art that existed at the time this invention was created.

The adventure continues.

I watched this interview:
The Hutchison Effect: The John Hutchison Interview - YouTube

The comments from Hutchinson about John Alexander wanting
to classify certain things so that they could remain in the public
domain -- as long as they had the STIGMA of being a bit fringe, weird,
spooky, unbelievable, etc. was insightful.

I think Hendershot fell under the same spell. There appears to have been
a campaign to make him look like a person who could do things:
- with intuition,
- or that it only works when he's in the room (implying PK)
- etc,
I suspect is just a psyop to create a level of distrust in the technology,
giving it a sort of tainted "hoax" residue, so that nice folks don't
waste time investigating it... move along ... nothing to see here ...
have a nice day.

Yet the device itself appears to have evolved from something simple -- a toy plane ---
to this elaborate MKIII device, utilizing very complex non-linear circuitry.
I have to think that Hendershot received "help" from other engineers and
scientists to refine the machine over several generations of technological attempts.
He may have left the mortal coil before he was allowed to finish.

Funny that Hutchinson thinks that young people should study "tubes".
Cute.

-morpher44