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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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October 26, 1991
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EVGRAY2.ASC
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EMS - Electronic Power That Could
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Change The World's Economic Power Picture
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Though harassed by the authorities, under-financed and ignored by
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science, business and industry, Edwin V. Gray, a self educated Los
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Angeles inventor has developed a revolutionary electromagnetic motor
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that promises to greatly improve conditions for the world.
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A vast new technology is opening because Gray invented a motor that
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delivers super-efficient horsepower at lower cost with less wear and
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tear than any other device known. His EMS motor takes a giant step
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closer to the magnificent, whirring power plants visualized by
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science fiction writers.
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Implications for the auto industry alone are staggering: Gray
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appears to have the answer to Detroit's dilemma involving practical
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electric vehicles.
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Ed Gray's name may well go down in history alongside the likes of
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Edison, Marconi, Goddard and Bell - that is, if the establishment
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will get off his back.
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A social quality known as "resistance to change" and another called
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the "economic status quo" have made his motor a tale of bitter
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frustration. Most people would have quit in despair long ago.
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However, tireless experimentation and remarkable determination have
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paid off in a technological triumph that brings the heretofore
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untapped source of static electricity into the workhouse of man. Any
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expert can tell you "static electricity will not do work." Gray is
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slowly and doggedly proving the experts wrong.
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His battle is not over, but perhaps the tide is finally turning in
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his favor. His corporation, EvGray Enterprises, is seeking the
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necessary financing to further develop the motor. His efforts were
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thwarted by serious legal problems which recently were resolved when
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he agreed to enter a guilty plea to a minor Securities and Exchange
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violation.
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Page 1
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Thus nearly two years of legal entanglements came to a close. The
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legal costs alone have been near ruinous. He's won some important
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battles, but he could yet lose the war.
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Gray's start in life wasn't promising. He was one of six children of
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a poor Washington, D.C. family and grew up in the streets. Few
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suspected he had the stuff of a genius. Like many kids, he was
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fascinated by engines and motors, but his thinking about them went
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far beyond normal curiosity. He wanted to know more than just what
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made them run.
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Gray dropped out of school at 14 and began tinkering with ideas. He
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was so lacking in formal education that he did not realize for some
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time that his thinking was both original and far advanced.
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Three things about electricity fascinated him:
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(1) a capacitor can store an electric charge and release it on
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demand,
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(2) pulses of electricity can be sent out and brought back,
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(3) lightning bolts seem to be more powerful when closer to
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the earth where the atmosphere is heaviest.
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These were facts known to every physicist. But to most such
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scientists, they were unrelated facts. Ed Gray's genius was in
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correlating this knowledge into new technology.
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"I remember getting a shock when I grabbed a charged
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capacitor off a work bench," he recalled. "That simple fact
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never left my mind. Then I watched when the government
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people were testing the first radar across the Potomac River
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- it stuck in my mind when one of the men explained it as
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`pulse out, pulse back.'
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"And I've always been a nut about thunderstorms. I watched
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lightning by the the hours. I noticed how much stronger it
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appeared to be when closer to the earth and just naturally
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concluded that more air had something to do with it."
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These three principles, plus a super secret means of generating and
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mixing static electricity, make up Gray's EMS motor.
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Gray grew to adulthood, married, divorced and married again. For 22
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years, the idea of a special new kind of motor turned over and over
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in his mind. Meanwhile, he had moved to Southern California where he
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maintained a workshop and sought the advice of knowledgeable men.
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Bit by bit, his ideas began to take shape.
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By 1973, Gray was ready to demonstrate his motor to the world.
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Wisely, he had incorporated himself to prevent the EMS motor from
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being gobbled up by some industry giant who might want to suppress
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it.
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As early as 1957, Gray was pounding the pavement seeking financial
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backers. Over the years he picked up 788 stockholders, all friends
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or friends of friends. This fact was to stand Gray in good stead
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Page 2
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later when the Los Angeles County District Attorney hit him with
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questionable charges of fraud.
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From 1957 to 1972, Gray raised about $2 million to make the EMS
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motor a reality. That same year he incorporated and built the first
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working model.
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Still, more money was a big need. He approached top electronics and
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automotive firms such as General Dynamics, Rockwell International,
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Ford, General Motors and the like. Usually he was turned away. "When
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they did listen to me and got a little interested, it turned out
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they wanted 90 per cent. Then it was I who did the turning away," he
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said.
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Gray had interested some top experts, though, men who offered the
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benefits of their knowledge to his fledgling firm. They included
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Richard B. Hackenberger, an electronics engineer who had served Sony
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and Sylvania, as well as Fritz Lens, a master machinist who
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understood what Gray was trying to accomplish. In spring, 1973, Gray
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and his associates unveiled the EMS motor to the world.
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In the workshop, a six-volt car battery rested on a table. Lead
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wires ran from the battery to a series of capacitors which are the
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key to Grays's discovery. The complete system was wired to two
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electromagnets, each weighing a pound and a quarter.
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The first demonstration proved that Gray was using a totally
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different form of electrical current - a powerful but "cold" form of
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the energy.
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As the test started, Gray said: "Now if you tried to charge those
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two magnets with juice from the battery and make them do what I'm
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going to make them do, you would drain the battery in 30 minutes
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and the magnets would get extremely hot."
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Fritz Lens activated the battery. A voltmeter indicated 3,000 volts.
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Gray threw a switch and there was a loud popping noise. The top
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magnet flew off with powerful force. Richard Hackenberger caught it
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in his bare hand.
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What happened was that Gray had used a totally different form of
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electrical current - a "cold" form of energy. The fact that
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Hackenberger caught the magnet and was not burned was evidence
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enough of that.
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It was a moment in history perhaps as important as the day in 1877
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when Thomas A. Edison threw a switch which lit up a glass bulb that
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continued to glow all day and part of the next.
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The demonstration was witnessed by two unbiased experts and the
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author of this article, who later printed the story of what he had
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seen in a national publication.
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"The amazing thing is that only a small per cent of the energy was
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used. Most of it went back into the battery," Hackenberger said.
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Actually, two "improbables" had been demonstrated that day. The
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second was characterized by the lack of heat generated in the
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magnet, excessive heat being one of the big drawbacks in utilizing
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electronics advancements. The successful test seemed to be Ed Gray's
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big break. In reality, his real troubles were just beginning.
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The publicity about the test brought Gray to the attention of a firm
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in Denver which agreed to back him with several million in new
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capital over a period of a few years. At the time, Gray planned to
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test market the EMS motor in a radically new auto body called the
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"Fascination," developed by Paul Lewis of Sidney, Nebraska.
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The first prototypes were due on January 1, 1974. But by then
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mysterious things had started to happen - misfortunes Gray suspects
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were created by persons working to undermine his motor's
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development. The Fascination trial was dropped.
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In July, 1974, raiders from the Los Angeles County District
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Attorney's office descended on Grey's plant in Van Nuys. They
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confiscated plans, records and the latest working prototype of the
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motor.
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Investigators for the D.A. threatened to file a variety of charges
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against Gray, ranging from fraud to grand theft. Yet months passed
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and no charges were brought. The investigators defied all attempts
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by the inventor's lawyers to get the confiscated materials returned.
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Meanwhile, the D.A.'s men sought out Gray's investors and tried to
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convince them to prefer charges against him. All refused.
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Finally, eight months after the raid, the D.A.'s office brought a
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series of charges against Gray, including grand theft, by claiming
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he had raised money from investors by means of a hoax. But all the
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serious charges were dropped when it when it was proved they were
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unfounded.
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Remaining were two counts of violating SEC regulations. In late
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March, 1976, Gray pleaded guilty to these misdemeanors, paid a fine
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and was freed.
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The long-drawn legal hassle had other serious consequences. The
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major financing promised by the Denver firm was cut off after only a
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fraction of the money had dribbled in. Fortunately, there was enough
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to enable Gray to build a second prototype engine.
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Today Gray is very careful in the claims he makes for his motor.
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Even to discuss that which has already been proved to the
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satisfaction of skeptical scientists could bring the law down on his
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head again.
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"There has been a lot more to the suppression of my ideas than meets
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the eye," he said. "It is a wonder we have survived."
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But survived he has - and if some big vested interest was indeed
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behind all his woes, it may be too late for such a force to stop an
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idea whose time may have come.
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Powerful allies are now rallying to his cause. For example, Gray was
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nominated for "Inventor of the Year" by the Los Angeles Patent
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Attorney's Association last February.
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Two highly respected scientists, Dr. Norm Chalfin and Dr. Gene
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Wester of California Institute of Technology have publicly endorsed
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Gray's motor.
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Dr. Chalfin was present when Gray demonstrated the latest working
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model in front of a stockholders' meeting.
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"There is no motor like this in the world," Dr. Chalfin told
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the group. "Ordinary electric motors use continuous current
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and constantly drain power. In this system, energy is used
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only during a small fraction of a millisecond. Energy not used
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is returned to an accessory battery for reuse.
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"It is cool running," Dr. Chalfin added, putting his hand on
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the motor. "There is no loss of energy in the system."
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Dr. Chalfin has placed his own considerable prestige on the line by
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writing the text for Gray's patent applications, the uneducated
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inventor finding the technical writing task beyond him.
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At the same meeting, Dr. Gerald Price, Gray's patent counsel, told
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the stockholders: "For discovering and proving a new form of
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electric power, Mr. Gray has been nominated for the annual award
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presented by the patent lawyers of Southern California."
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Looking forward to prospects of a brighter future, Gray says he
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wants to get the EMS motor into production and prove he has
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discovered more than even his backers understand.
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Gray is advised by his lawyers to make no claims. However, this
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reporter who has followed Gray's work closely for four years has
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seen and heard enough to feel safe in saying that the inventor may
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be unlocking the key to a natural phenomenon referred to as "ball
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lightning."
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With the combined use of capacitor discharge and spikes of energy
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made up of mixed static and direct current, Gray conceivably could
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get more out of a battery than a battery has stored in it, simply
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because he is also tapping the huge reservoir of static electricity
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in the atmosphere as his motor runs.
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Scientists balk at this theory, but someday Ed Gray may back them
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down another notch. He has already proved right about the capacitor
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discharge motor idea. With that, his motor already is revolutionary
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- it runs cool. That in itself could solve a myriad of heat-
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resistance problems for industry. Cool running parts do not
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experience the intense friction and wear out a quickly as overheated
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parts do.
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If Ed Gray's motor makes its final breakthrough and goes into
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general production, it may make the one time dropout into a giant in
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history. It also could be a massive boon to mankind in the following
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ways:
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* It conceivably could power every auto, airplane, truck, train
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and ship without using a drop of gasoline, kerosene or diesel
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fuel.
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* It could cool or heat every American home at a fraction of the
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present day cost.
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* It could power the engines of all heavy industry - likewise
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cheaply.
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And it could accomplish all this without spitting a single speck
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of pollution into the earth's atmosphere.
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One question remains: How did Edwin Gray, an unschooled tinkerer,
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bring together certain facts of technology and nature into a device
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beyond the capabilities of brilliant, richly subsidized scientists?
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"Someone trained in electronics simply would have looked at the
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concept and said it cannot work," Dr. Chalfin said. "Gray did
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not know this, and he made it work.
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"As a result, he has provided the world with a totally new and
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exciting technology."
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Newsreal Series, June, 1977
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Vangard note...
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Sorry to report that Ed Gray died about 2 years ago. At this
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time we do not who has controlling interest in his company,
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EvGray Enterprises. We refer you to EVGRAY.ZIP or .ASC on
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KeelyNet for more information.
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