2026-10-08 Moray and Skinner records (rexresearch, British Pathé, Google)
Moray
Queries: Moray radiant energy demonstration "Murray O. Hayes" OR "Chester Todd" watts affidavit; Moray "550,611" OR "serial number 550611" patent application 1931 radiant energy. rexresearch page of excerpts from The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats [web: http://www.rexresearch.com/moray2/morayrer.htm; saved research/pages/rex-moray.txt]: - Statement signed Murray O. Hayes PhD, and a later passage: "Dr Murray Hayes has examined most carefully and knows the construction of Dr Moray's machine ... has practically prepared the papers for patent applications". - Moray (quoted): "the frequency is so high that I have no instrument in my laboratory that is able to measure the amperage or the voltage at this frequency". - "Dr Eyring found no fault with the demonstration and the worst that he could say about it was that it might be induction", asking for a test 3 or 4 miles from power lines. Carl Eyring and Harvey Fletcher (BYU physicists) are named. - Chester M. Todd statement dated 19 Mar 1971; David Gardner affidavit (a radio-like receiving device). - "none of the original patent applications that Henry made are any longer available at the US Patent Office. Although their file jackets are there, the contents and applications themselves are gone" (family's statement). - A passage of the book says the device "produced up to 50,000 watts of power" (the book's claim; Kelly's book uses 635-675 W). - Several copies name the radiant-energy patent application of 13 July 1931, serial number 550,611, not granted [web: Google snippets of slideshare, academia.edu, rexresearch1 "Space Energy Receivers"]. Interested parties: The Sea of Energy is published by Moray's family. The missing application contents are a record anomaly; the application file (or its index card) at USPTO or National Archives would decide what was filed.
Skinner
Queries: William Skinner 1939 gravity machine newsreel "1200" Popular Science OR "British Pathe" OR "AP Archive"; "William F. Skinner" OR "W. F. Skinner" Miami 1939 gravity motor newspaper OR patent. - British Pathé "Gravity Power! (1939)": film ID 1190.10, Pathetones, issue date 31/07/1939, canister PT 488, 1:01. Description: weights that spin round and "multiply the power of an 1/8 horsepower motor by 1200 %", enough for "a town of 3,500 at a cost of £1 a month"; he runs "a 12 foot lathe that cuts ribbons of steel" [web: https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/68269/]. - United Press story, Breckenridge American (Texas), 4 Apr 1939, transcribed on rexresearch with a link to the Portal to Texas History scan (ark:/67531/metapth73611/m1/2/) [web: https://rexresearch.com/skinner/skinner.htm; saved research/pages/rex-skinner.txt]: Skinner "estimated" the machine "would increase the horsepower of a motor about 1,200 per cent"; a 1/8 hp motor turned eccentrics while the machine ran a 12-foot lathe, a six-foot drill press and a hacksaw from one shaft; four shafts with off-balance weights at 60 rpm; the machine shown was the fifth he had built in 14 years; A. P. Michaels, Jacksonville consulting engineer, gave a letter calling it "a practical device ... It should result in a very large saving of power used"; George C. Estill, retired president of Florida Power and Light, examined it but his "check was not complete enough to allow him to form a conclusion"; Skinner had turned to inventing after the 1926 Florida land collapse and had made a dry-cell recharger. Bears on claim 4 and on Kelly's reading of 1200 percent as 1200 times (deep read, Chapter 4): the U.P. text says "1,200 per cent" and calls it Skinner's estimate. The newspaper scan itself was not opened (not reached).