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Show i i , i : . .. - . ...... . . . .. i . . . - i . ..... " . : ' ' . . ' I I I ! mi 1. 1,. in. - i : Into llie Air and Sends It ' Flying Across the Country. O006COeO8000S0080003 S Vf iiAT 3TEP.IAN CLAKIS FGIUIIS INVENTION, f " " . ' . . - , v T!"ft is overcomes the lawn of gravitation. , . . .. . v That eight-pound boulder was carried Into Infinite space. . 0 That it' will carry airship to any desired height. . ? . ' , " iThat his airship will travel at rate of 180 miles an hour. ' ; '4 ' " S S "' '0 Sir Isaac Newton discovered the law ct gravitation, but it has remained for A. J. "Stephan, a Salt Lake machinist, to c. .core the laws of "gravitation and t-ake it r ssible for substances to re-irain re-irain susj nded in air far above the surface cf the earth, with no visible ' means of support." ' . Mr. Stephan Is a machinist In the employ em-ploy of the- "Scott-Strevell Hardware - comiiny of this city,. and" resides"in"a humble cottage . at 4C3 West Second' North- street. Mr. Stephan was born in ISTrr In the kingdom of Pjusfia, and 3ucated in the German schools. His father,. who was a very .weal thy man, wanted him to study medicine. Instead 1-e studied machinery. ' and natural science. . Left Home at 17. " J35 Jto $50 I can charge the metallic cylinder, rise to any desired height and go to Washington, D. C, at the rate of 180 miles an hour. "I Intend to perfect my Invention and tLen sell it to the United States Government." Gov-ernment." ,. , Searcli for tha Inventor. ... i - Several days ago The Telegram received re-ceived a tip with regard to Mr. Stephanas Steph-anas invention, but although several reporters re-porters made diligent search he could not be located, t The following notice was then inserted in The Telegram "A. J. Stephan, formerly of 114 South Eighth 'West street, will "learn something some-thing to his advantage If he will call at the editorial rooms of The Telegram, room 2, Tribune building, between the hours of 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock in the afternoon any day this week, or if he will send his address to the city editor of this paper at once." ' Tlirw hmirn lifter Th Tplperfltri WHS on the street Mr. Stephan called at The Telegram office. "Everybody reads The Telegram," he said. - "Twenty persons called my attention to your little no-tlce." no-tlce." r ' . ' . ' At the 6?e of 17 years he left home and School and came to America, lo-t lo-t eating in Philadelphia. He afterward went to Texas, hen came to Salt Lake five years ago. He, has a family con-s!st!rg- rf h' v ;e and two small ch!I-.- " c.. . . .-ciUge.ia fth..h he lives is plain, but scrupulously neat. Mr. Stephan said to the reporter for The Telegram, who called on him today, to-day, that as the perfection of his Invention In-vention requires so much money, he is Unable to spend very much for furniture furni-ture that is not essential to the family . comfort. . ... Speaking of the discovery of the force that defies gravitation, Mr. Stephan 'said: ' , . ' Origin of His Discovery. "One day about twelve years ago I was experimentfng-wlth a large horse- shoe magnet. 1 discovered that the tnagnet had a repulsive as well as an attractive force, and that under certain conditions bits of metal would be urged away from the magnet, instead of being drawn to it. This started me on a line of Investigation which resulted In the discovery of a force that sets at naught the force of gravitation and upsets all known theories regarding that force. Then I discovered that magnetic force, properly directed, would lift substances straight into the air, and they would stay there. . "I tried a great many experiments, and' one day took a metal cannister and suspended from It an eight-pound boulder. boul-der. The whole thing went up in the air so far I could not see it. I had a stringy attached, 200 yards in length. The force was so great that when the end of the string was reached, the cord of heavy linen was snapped and the can and rock kept, going. L don't know where It went, because ir never came flown, and I presume it is going yet. "Another time I regulated the amount of the substance I put in the can. It went to a length of 200 feet, where it - remained stationary for a long, time, when I drew it down. The' Secret rorce. , ' ' 1 "The force that drew the .material from the earth is the secret of the whole business. The discovery of this force was made by a trivial accident. I noticed no-ticed the action of the magnet and discovered dis-covered a, natural law, greater than the law of gravitation, because gravitation Is overcome.- I have ever been a student stu-dent of aerial" navigation, and have at last Invented a machine that will travel through the air at a rate of three miles a minute, or O80 miles an hour. His Flying Machine. "The machine has a V-shaped roof, prow and bottom, for the purpose of cutting the air. There is a strong iron cylinder on the machine, which sup-. sup-. ports a propelling machine and the platform plat-form for the operator and passengers. The machine Is fitted with two propellers propell-ers and a steering apparatus, run by electric batteries. The substance which raises the machine Is put in the iron cylinder, and the machine will go up to any desired height. When the desired height Is reached the propellers will be thrown into service and the machine will travel in any direction. "My models, of which I have had two that worked successfully, have both i been destroyed, as I am afraid sorie one j right steal my secret. "On December 15. 1902, I made an open-air test in the hills a few miles from the city. The batteries on the model worked wonderfully well, and the model made a successful trip, after hich I destroyed it. Y7111 Cost $2000. "The machine which I contemplate building will cost about J2000. The car R ill be of light metal construction, the ;y'lnder in which the lifting force will be stored wlll.be about eight feet long ir, 1 eighteen Inches In diameter. The n..ifhir.e will be navigable, and will be r-.Oy controlled, the eperator going up sr uown as he may wish. It will not ;. : r- ch to cerate the machine. For J |
