Show PERMANENT MAY SOLVE AUTOMOTIVE PROBLEM Japanese Scientist Invents Magnet Which Retains 20 Volts for Seven Years Source of Power Is Big Question In Present Day By Br Ii L KLEiN I C Editor NEA EA Service Scarce I A discovery ry lust just made by a Japanese scientist may be the fi- fi final nal stage In the perfection p of ot the I f automobile I That final tage lIage age many n rn agree wm will 01 be bo electric yet I without the bother little power and life afforded by the storage e battery type ot of electric automobiles today i The discovery Is a WilY way o ot of pro pro- producing producing pro 1 permanent electricity In what hat Professor Mototaro 1 E uchi ot of the Higher Naval College at Tokyo Toko calla a permanent elec atI I tret The permanent L Lt Ito I Ito to electricity what the permanent mn magnet net Is to mechanics Its Re possibilities haven't bavent even been thought of because It Is I ii still In It Its Ita experimental stage But It Ithal has hal the same prospects It If not greater In the field of ot practical electrics as the permanent magnet had In the field CleM of ot practical me- me mechanics when It was Invented back In 1600 RETAINS nET RGE CIL The automobile Is 13 s one of ot the future fields Un Un- Un Underneath d hoods of ot the future may mayI maybe maybe ma I be devices based on doc replacing with much higher highe efficiency the gasoline and steam i power plants of ot today The as 88 crudely shaped as It Is today toda has been shown to keep Its electric charge up to volts olta to a II a centimeter ot of surface since 1919 when It was wa first made without a less NIB cas Thus Thull somewhat the perma- perma permanent permanent permanent nent magnet et the permanent elee- elee tret may be the motive mothe power ot of o automobiles among automobiles among the many man other possibilities It hae In hae-In In th the I future Until that stage arrives ell there hero may still be a perhaps transition transition from the gasoline to the steam car That sounds Bounds surprising since the steam car once enjoyed great great- greater greater er popularity than It has bas today and since II nee there seems to be little discussion over the permanence o ot of the gasoline car INKI ENGINE R But It Is a fact that engineers are not satisfied with gasoline as ai a a source for motive power In au au- au autt t toe It Is highly Inefficient In the variable speed motors moton essential to automobiles and requires man many parts In the transmission of ot Of It its II power that effect Its Ita Inefficiency Theres There's the carburetor that needs adjustment cams and cam cam- camshafts camshafts shafts that need timing gears Kears for forthe forthe the various stages of transmission sion with clutch and lever to con con- control con I I t troi ol the tho mechanism Attempts are being made to simplify the transmission transmission trans trans- transmission mission but nothing nothing- of or this gorIs sort eort Is In sight yet This Is the great ent or of advocates of the steam car who even so go so far as to say lIay that the public will rei return urn to this source of power as a relief relict from the old What's keeping them back la Is the availability of ot gasoline as a source of direct power coupled wIth the popular belief bellet that pow pow- power power power er direct from fuel tuel Is better than power Indirectly through steam PREJUDICE O But the steam car has the ad- ad advantage advantage vantage antage of flexibility of simplicity and ease of ot control Its It's as 1111 sate safe as 83 any ny such ouch apparatus could band be and Its only shortcoming Is that III 10 has been unable to live down the poor Impression it mad made when It was first Introduced when It ItI took time to start effort to con con con- control control I I and care to k keep ep It from blowing up Now these fears tears and prejudices are taken care of or and with more education coupled with the decline ot of gasoline production the steam car may come ba back k But It will be only for the Inter inter- interval Interval val al to the time when the perma perma- permanent permanent nent or some similar electric device will take Its place no |