"Eventually the controversy increased to the point where
Edison was pressured by his principal financial backers, Western Union, to desist from etheric force research and publicity over it, and to devote himself to
I just ran into Western Union doing some research yesterday, apparently they ended up with an ownership stake in the inductance coil, per ‘the Page patent’ - an interesting read all in itself, but basically Page appealed to congress to backdate a patent and they did.
A lot going on here with huge ramifications at the time - not only should Page have been barred from being a patent owner due to his position as a patent examiner, but the use was already widespread, and the dc motor was already patented much earlier - by Thomas Davenport.
Furthermore, there is an anecdote with Edison’s patent demonstrating principles of the telephone, likely he could have claimed ownership of the telephone - but didn’t.
The aether is coming up quite a bit in my research, and mostly from experimenters and patent holders, not so much from theorists.
Thanks for sharing this!
Also, have you looked into the Lovell Monothermal? The patent has a metal chart, and I do think it could be a key part of the energy equation.
I am going to try building an antenna and run it through Mercury, see if it vortex’s. If so, a motor would look just like a ball, causing an imbedded turbine to spin, the shaft connected to whatever.
Well well well. I've found this rather steampunk looking thing on Wiki. The Etheric Force Machine. Looks a bit like the stuff in chapter 10.
Etheric force - Wikipedia
"Eventually the controversy increased to the point where
Edison was pressured by his principal financial backers, Western Union, to desist from etheric force research and publicity over it, and to devote himself to what Western Union saw as more commercially viable projects. Edison abandoned work despite having been able to send signals twenty to thirty feet. He also drafted, but did not file, a patent application for an "etheric telegraph" before he abandoned etheric force."
By Jessamyn - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
File:Etheric Force Machine.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
If I’m not mistaken, that is a Keely Machine, and I personally have not found anything that would substantiate Keely’s claims.
Maybe I’m wrong and this machine has forcefully been Attributed to him to sully it, but it has an uncanny resemblance to his other work.
let me know if you’ve found something different and I’ll research it more.
And the official science claims what Edison discovered was radio. It’s interesting that Western Union got involved, and then we have JP Morgan with Tesla, why is there financial pressure to stop experimenting in a certain direction?
you’d have to know what it would lead to in order to have a reason to discontinue - and it just seems so strange, that electrifying an elephant is fine but don’t research the ether - or radio, as it ‘turned out’.
I personally think this is the same principle as the Swedish wurmhurst machine, that the micro contact and electrical discharge creates a ripple effect in the ether, and when pulsed at a rapid frequency creates a larger and larger wave, much like how you can make waves in a swimming pool by jumping up and down with a float.
The Wurmhurst I think uses this at a extreamly local level, collecting and using the static charge for a near constant dc voltage.
And I am open to being completely wrong about all of this, it’s not official science, but the wurmhurst does exist, so if it’s a different principle at work nobody can explain it.
