Lebanon Man Designs Magnet-Powered Motor

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Lebanon Man Designs Magnet-Powered Motor
Topic Started: Jun 7 2009, 06:51 PM (37 Views)
XNavyGunner	Jun 7 2009, 06:51 PM Post #1
Gunner Posts: 11,696 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	By heritage, accomplishment and spirit, Bill Landon Jr. is a quintessential Connecticut Yankee. Mechanically adept from a young age, Landon, 72, has immersed himself in making things work. At age 8, he took electrical motors from old record players to customize his train set. Starting at age 10, he revived a decrepit Model A Ford and buggied through the woods and fields around his home. Landon has worked as an electrical engineer for various companies, including contributions to what is now Hamilton Sundstrand's spacesuit program. He is an inventor, a fixer of antique machines, a vintner, a carpenter and designer at his historic home on the edge of Lebanon's long green. Now Landon is waiting for a decision from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on his latest and most ambitious project — a magnet-powered motor. Such "fuel-less" motors could be used to run anything, negating the need for fuel of any kind, Landon said. The implications of his claim are huge, he acknowledged, and people will be skeptical. One of his own relatives asked how it was possible that no one had thought of such a motor before, Landon said. But he is undeterred. "They never thought Thomas Edison would get the light bulb working, either," Landon said. Displayed on a table in his home, the magnet motor doesn't look revolutionary or even complicated. The size of a medium pizza, the main parts are a stationary base, or stator, and a rotor. Magnets are arranged in circles along the edges of both pieces. Milled to precise shapes and placed in exact positions, Landon said, the magnets will pull and push one another to create constant rotation. "The energy produced by moving in a straight line between two points and that produced by moving between the same two points on a curved line is different, and that difference is used to propel the motor," he said. That's the translation for laymen — the patent application, available online at patft.uspto.gov, is much more detailed and complex. Landon flicks the rotor and it spins for several minutes. The model is not perfect, he said, because the parts must be precisely machined and fitted and he lacks the necessary equipment. Landon said he hopes that an entrepreneur somewhere in the U.S. will fund a working model. In the end, patent examiners will decide whether Landon's invention is novel and useful. He expects a decision in about seven months. "This is," he said, "either madness or genius." There is more of both upstairs in the 18th-century home that Landon shares with his wife, Sandy. In fact, Landon jokingly calls his vast collection of old record players "the madness." Funnel-shaped speakers blossom everywhere in three rooms — Edisons, Victors, Reginas and other models from recorded sound's earliest days. Landon collects, repairs and sells these old-time music machines and the even earlier, cabinet music boxes that use large, perforated discs for different songs. Landon's mind for cogs, pins, gears and spindles started with the old cylinder players he found in his attic as a boy, and he has been a self-described fanatic about the machines ever since. It's the engineering, he says; it's in his blood. The son of a Pratt & Whitney machinist, Landon graduated from the University of Hartford and received his master's degree in engineering science in 1965 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He worked for various companies, including his contributions to the astronauts' spacesuitsmade at Windsor Locks-based Hamilton Standard, now Hamilton Sundstrand. Landon has made enough money to live well, and he fills his days with projects. There's the 2½ acres of grapevines he planted recently in a field behind his home; the mortarless stone wall he built in part of his vast cellar; the bowed, multi-paned window salvaged from an old Manchester bank that now lights his kitchen; posts and beams he installed to shore up the old house; sliding doors; stained-glass windows; lighting fixtures — all carefully fitted into a 230-year-old house where plumb and level lines are infrequent. Landon still has work to do on his 18th-century barn and its later additions, a stone floor to install in part of the basement, a roof extension to build over the front portico and a few other waiting jobs. He and Sandy, a retired Avon elementary school teacher, moved to Lebanon in 1996. Known as Redwood, their house was built in 1778-79 for David Trumbull, son of Connecticut's Revolutionary War governor, Jonathan Trumbull, town historian Alicia Wayland said. During the war, the officer in charge of a French cavalry unit wintered at the house before moving along with the Comte de Rochambeau's forces in aid of Gen. George Washington. When the Landons moved in, Wayland said, the house was in poor shape. "He has done a wonderful job of preserving it," Wayland said of Landon. "The house will stand for many more years because he's taken such good care of it." Sandy Landon has done her share, including painting every square inch of the place. But Bill Landon has done the heavy work, and his precise carpentry and stone work is evident throughout the 6,600-square-foot house. It's remarkable, Wayland said, that Landon did all the work by himself. Speaking of the magnet motor and the other projects he's tackled throughout his life, Landon said, "Everything seems impossible until you do it." Bill Langdon Jr. is an inventor, a tinkerer. His latest and most ambitious project is a magnet-powered motor that doesn't use fuel. Source



Varlok	Jun 7 2009, 07:10 PM Post #2
Boss Posts: 451 Group: Members Member #3,325 Joined: May 10 2009 Gender Male	That is cool, I hope he gets it perfected.
	http://www.blogtalkradio.com/arimoose "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." -- Albert Einstein


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