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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc,net.research
Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:42:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 11:42:20 1985
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This somewhat reminds me of the "Dean device", which purported to become
lighter in operation. It was placed on a common bathroom scale and when
operated did, in fact, cause the scale to have a lower reading. This got a
patent, and in the process of trying to develop a practical use for the
principle was shown to be using a characteristic of spring scales.

I suspect that the Newman device is also a case of misapplication of a
principle rather than a fraud of any type. The matter to energy conversion
sounds VERY unlikely, but there is some posibility that a new discovery has
been made (bloody unlikely tho).

The only thing which makes this interesting to me is the fact that (a) he
isn't trying to get any money out of it (yet), and (b) one of the categories
of invention which used to be unpatentable was the heavier than air flying
machine. Since the patent application will protect his rights if there is some
commercial posibility here, I would love to see the machine really examined by
professionals.