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Ed Oay hailed hisinrentton belorc stockholden, 1976.

EMS --ElectronicPower Thoi Could


Chonge The World's EconomicPower Picture
hough harrassedby the au. that is, if the establishment will get were ihwarted by serious legal
thorities,under-financed and offhh back. Droblemswhichrec€ntlywereresolved
ignored by science,business A socialqualitYknown as "resis_ ;hen h€ agreedto enlera.Suillyplca
' and indu;try, Ed;in v. Gray, a seli tanceto chan8e"and anolhercalled to a minor secunlresano tsxcnange
11. €ducatedLos Angelesinventorhasde- the "economicstatusquo" havemade
', veloped s revoiutionaryelectromag. Gray'sstruggl€to developand market Thus neally rwo Yearsof legalen'
aetic motor that promisesto greauy h's motor a tale of bitter trustration. tanglements came10 a close.Thelegal
1 irnproveconditionsfor lhe world. Most peoplewould havequit in des- coslsalonehav€beennearruinous.
A vast new technologyis opening pairlong ago. He's won someimPoltanlbatlles,
becaus€Cray inventeda molor that However,tirelessexperimenlation but he couldyet losethewar.
deliv€rssuper€fficienthorsepowerat and remarkabledeterminationhave Gravt slart in life wasn'!Promis_
lower costwith lesswearandtearthan paid off in a technological tdumph ina. H; was one of six childr,n of a
any other device known. His EMS that brinas the heretofoleuntapped poor Washington,D.C family and
' motor takesus a giant step closer10 so'-rrceoi static electricity into the qrewup in rheslreets,
. the magnificent, whirringpowerplants workhouseof man. AnY expell can Fet susDected he had Lheslulf oi
visualized by sciencefictionwriters. 1€llyou "static electriclrywill not do a eenius. Like manykids.re wasfas-
. lmplicationsfor the auto induslry work-" Gray is slowly and doggedly cinatedby engines andmoiuls,bul his
alonear€ staggering: Gray appearsto provingtheexpertsarewrong thinking aboutthemwent far beyond
have the answerto Detroit'sdilemma His battle js not over,but PerhaPs normd curiosity.He wantedto know
involvingpracticalelecrricvehicles. the tide is finally tumingin his favor. morethan.justwhatmadethemrun.
Ed Gray'snamemay well go down His corporation,Evcray Entcrprises, Grav droepedout of schoola1 14
.. in history alonssidethe likes of Edi' is seekinsthe necessary financingto andbeganti;i(e'ngwtlhrdcasHewds
son, Marconi, Goddard and Bell - further developthe motor- His efforts so lackinsrn formaledL,cationlhathe

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did not realizefoi sometime that his automotive firms suchas GeneralDy. to make fiem do, you would drain the I
thinkhg was both original and far- namics,RockwellIntemational,Ford, battery in 30 minutesmd the magnets I
ceneral Motors and the like. Usualy wouldgetextrem€lyhot." I
Three things about electricity fas' he was tumed away."Whentley did Fritz l-ens activated the battery.
cinated llim: (l) a capacitatorcan listento me andgot a little interested, A voltmeier indicated3,000 Yolts.
store an electric chage and r€leaseit it rumedout lhey wanted90 per cent. Gray threrv a switch and ther€ was a
on demand,(2) pillsesof electricity Then it was I who did the iuming loud popping noise.The top maSret
can be sentout andbroughtback,(3) flew off with powerfulforce.Richard
lightningbolts3eemto be morepower- Gray had interestedsometop ex- Hackenbe.gercaught it in his bare
ful when closer to the earti wherethe perts, though, rnen who offered th€ hand.
atmospherefu heavi€st. benefitsof tleir knowlegeto hisfledg- What had happenedwas that GraY
Thesew6r€ facts known to every lins firm. They includedRichardB. had used a totally- different fonn of
physicfut.But to most suchscientists, Hackenberger, an eleckonicsengineer el€ctricalcurrent- a "cold" fonn of'
they were unrelatedfacts,Ed Gray's who had seryedSony and Sylvania,as energy. The fact that Hackenberger
geniuswas in corelating this know. weil asFritz kns, a mastermachinist caughtlhe magnetandwasnot bumed
ledg€lnto a newtechnology. wasevidenceenoughof xhat.
"I remember gettinga shockwhenI It was a noment i[ hrstory perhapg
grabbed a charged capacitator off a asimportantas th€ day in l8?? when
work bench," he recalled. "That Thomas A. Edison threw a switch
simple fact n€ver l€ft my mind. Then which lit up a dass bulb that continu-
I watched when the govefiment ed !o dow all thet day and part of tlD
p.oplc were testing the first tadar next,
acro$ the PotomacRlver - it stuck Th€ demonstration rras r/itn€gsed
in my mind whenona of the nen ex- by t{,o unblased expertu and the
plainedit as'pulseout, pulseback,' euthor of this article, who later print.
"And I've alwaysbeena nut about ed the story ofwhat he had seenln a
thundeBto.m!,I wat4hedlighlningby nationalpubllcation.
tha hours.I noticedhow muchstrong- "The amazingthing is that onlY a
cr it appeared to be whcnclos€rto lhe smallper c.nt of the encrs/wasused.
earthandjustoaturallyconcludedthat Most of it went back into the bat:
mqrealr hadsomethinS to do with it." tery," Hackenberger 3aid.
Theeethrcc prinicples, plusa super- Actually, two "improbables"hed
secretmean3of Seneraling andmixing been demonslratedthat day. The
static€lechicity,makeup Cray\ EMS secondwas characterlzed by lack of
heat gen€ratedln thc magnet,exces.
Cray gr€w to adulthood,married, sive hest beinSone of the big draw-
dlvorccdand mrrded a8ain,For 22 becksin utilizingelectronlcs advance-
y3rrs,the idcaof a specialnewkind of menls.
motor tumed over and over ln hig The successful testseem€d to be Ed
mlnd, Meanwhile,he had movedto Gray'r big break. ln reality, his roal
SouthemCalifotnh where he main- houbleswercjwt beginning.
tained a workshop and sought the The publtclty about the test
adviceof knowledgable men. Bit by brought Cray to the sttention of I
bit, hk ideasbeganto takeshape. Edwin Y, Gtu! firm in Denverwhich agreedto back
By 1973, Atay was r€ady to de- him udth several mlllionin n€wcapital
monstratehis motor to th€ woald. overa periodofa fewYears.
Wisely,he had incorpo.atedhims€lf to who undentoodwhai C.ay wastrying At the time, Cray plannedto test
prev€ntthe BMS motof from being to accomplish. market thc EMS motor in . radicallv
gobbl€dup by some industry giant ln sprins, l9?3, Gray and his ss- new auto body called the "Fasaina-
who mightthensuppress it. sociatesunveiledthe EMS motor to tion," developedby Paul lrwis of
As earlyas 1957,Gray wa! pound- th6wodd. sidney,Nebraska.
ing the pavementseekingfinancial In the workshop,a sr.Y-voltcar bat The fint prototypes werc due on
backers.Over the yearshe pickedup tery restedon a table.bad wiresren I^nuary I, 19'14.But by t\en mYste-
788 stockholders, all friendsor frie4ds from th€ batteryto a seri€sof capaci- rious things had started to happen -
of friends. This fact wasto standGray ton which arc the key to Gray'sdb- mhfortunesOray suspects werecreat-
in good st€ad later when the Los covery.the €ompletesystemwaswir- ed by peBons working to under-
AngelesCounty DistrictAttomey hit ed to two electromagnets, eachweigh- ine hh motois development.The
him with questionable charg€s of ing a poundanda quarter. Fas.ination trial wasdropped.
fraud. The first demonstration provedthat In July, 1974,raide fiom the l,os
F.om 1957 to 19'12,Gtay lajltrd Cray wasusinga totally different form Angeles County Distflct Attorney's
about $2 millio'l to mak€ the EMS of electricalcurrent- a powerfulbut omce descendedon Gray'splant in
motor a reality. That sameyear h€ in- "cold" form of the energy. Van Nuys. They confiscatedPlans,re-
corporatedand built the first working As the test started, GraY 3a1d: cords and the latelt working prototype
model. "Now if you triedto chargethosetwo of the motor. "
Still, mor€ moneywas a big ne€d. magnetswith juice irom lhe battery lnvestisatois for the D.A. threaten-
He approached top electronics and and makethem do what Im 8oin8 ed 10 filta variety of chargesasai t)

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Gray, nnging from fraud to grand big vestedinterestwas hdeed behind bighter future,Cray sayshe wantsto
theft. Yet months passedand no a[ his woes,itjust n1aybe ioo laiefor g€t the EMS motor into production
chages were brought. the investiga' such a force io stop an idea whose and prove he hasdiscoveredmorc fian
timemay havecome,
tors defi€d aI attempts by the inven- evenhisbacke$understand.
tor's lasyers to get ihe confiscated Powerful aniesare now rallyinS to Oray is advisedby his lawyers to
his caus€. For example,Gray was mal<eno claims.However,this repor-
Meanwhile,the D.A.'s men sought nomhatedfor "Inventorof the Year" ter who has folowed Gray's work
out Gray'sinyestorsandtried to con- by the L.s Ang€lesPatentAttorney's closely for four years has seenrnd
vince them to prefer chargesagainst AssociationlastFebruary. head enoughto feel saf€in saying
him. A! r€fused. Two highly resFected Dr. that the inventor may be ur ocking
scientists,
the key to a natural ph€nomenon
referredto as"ball lightning."
With the combinedus€ofcapacitor
dischargea$d spikes of eners/ made
up of mixed staticrnd dircct curent,
Gray conceivablycould get moreout
of a batterythan a batt€ryhasstored
in it, simplybecause he alsois tapping
the huge reservoirof staticelectricity
in t]Ie atmosphereashismotor runs.
Scientistsbslk at this theo.y, but
somedayBd Gray may back them
down anothernotch. He has already
provedright about the capacitordh-
charge motor idea. With that, his
motor alreadyis revolutionary- it
runs cool. That in itself couldsolvea
myriadof heat.resistance problemsfor
industry. Cool runningparts do not
experiencethe lntense friction and
wear out as quickly as overhealed
lf Ed Gray\ motor makeslts flnal
Ed Gtur wtches his otiglnal prctotype EM,1 notor n .luting a test, breakthroughand goes into general
TheEMA was ettentually evolved into today\ EMS model that faces production,j1 may makethe one-lime
contlnuealsupprcsion - perhaps extlnctlon. dropoutinto a giantin hislory.It aho
couldbe a massiveboonto mankindin
Finally,eightmoiths afterthe raid, Norm Chrlfin and Dr, GeneWesterof the followingways:
the D.A.\ office brought a s€riesot Califomia Institute of Technolory . Il conceivablycould power every
chargesagainstCray, includinggrand hav€publiclyendorsed Cray\ motor. auto, airplaoe,lruck, lrain and ship
theft,by claiminE he hadraisedmoney Dr. ChalfinwaspresentwhenGray withoutusinga dropofgasoline, kero.
from investorsby meansof a hoax, demonstrated the lalest working seneor dieselfuel.
But ell the seriouscharges weredrop- model in front ol a stockholders' a It couldcool orheal ev€ryArnerican
pedwhenit wasprovedtheywereun- meeting. home al a fractionof the presentday
founded. "There is no motor like this in the
Renainingwerelwo minor counts world," Dr. Chalf:n lold the group. . It could power th€ enSinesof all
of violatingSEC regulations. ln lar€ "Ordinaryelectricmotorsusecontinu. heavyindustry- likewisechesply.
March, 1976, Cray pleadedguilly ous clrrent and constantly drain And it could accomplishall this
to thes€misdem€anors, paida fine and power.In this system,energyis used withou(spittinga singlespeckofpol'
oniy duringa smallfractionofa mill€" lution in(o the earth\ ahosphere.
The lonS-drawnlegal hasslehad second.Energynot usedis returnedto One question rernain6:How did
otherseriousconsequ€nces. Themajor an accessory balteryfor reuse. Edwin Gray, an unschooled tinkerer,
financins Dromisedbv the Denier "It is cool running,"Dr. Chalfin bring togErhercertainfacts of tech-
firm wai cirt olf after;nly a fraction added,putling hh handon lhe rnotor. nology .and naturc into a device
of the moneyhad dribbledin. For, "There is no loss of energyin the beyond the capabilitiesof brilliant,
tunately,therewasenouehto enabl€ syslem. richly subsidized
scienlists?
Grayto builda s€cond p;ototype cn. Dr. Chalfinhasplacedhisown con' Dr. No[n Chalfinhasperhapspro-
gne, siderableprestigeon the line by writ- vided the answer.He saysCray'slack
Today Gray is very carefulin the ing the text for Gray'spatentapplica- of formaleducationa.tuallybenefited
claimshe malesforhis motor.Evento tions,rhe uneducated inventorfinding him in his developrnent oI the EMS
discussthat which has alreadybeen the rechnicalwritingtaskbeyondhim.
provedro tre satkfaction ofskeptical Ar the sarnemeeling,Dr. Cerald "Someone trained in eleclronics
scientists could brjna- the hw aown Price,Gfay'spatenl couns€I,lold the simply wouid have looked at the
on hisheadagain. slockholde$: "For discovedngand conceptand saidit cannotwork," Dr.
"Therehasbeena lor nore to the provinga new form of eleclricpower, Chalfinsaid."Oray did not know this,
suppression of my ideasthan ineets Mr. Gray has beennominatedfor the andhe madeit work-
the eye," he said.li is a wonderwe annualawardpresented by the patent "As a result,he hasprovidedthe
lawy€rsof SouthemCalifomia." world with a totally new andexcitirg
But survivedhe has - andif sorne Looking foNard to prcspectsof a technology." NB

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