2026-10-08 Newman court record (Justia, Google)

Query: "Roger Hastings" Newman motor test 1986 OR 1987 report efficiency "National Bureau of Standards".

Newman v. Quigg, 681 F. Supp. 16 (D.D.C. 1988) [web: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/681/16/1800217/; curl was blocked, read in Chrome]: - "Only Dr. Roger Hastings, the physicist, was asked directly to define a Newman device's 'input' and 'output' ... The 'input,' he said, consisted of the power supplied by the batteries." Output, in his view, included mechanical work, heat, and "By far the most significant increment ... certain anomalous 'back spikes' of current it generates in the megaHerz range, which Dr. Hastings asserts he has perceived on an oscilloscope, listened to on (and used to power) a transistor radio, and observed to heat a beaker of water". "Dr. Hastings advanced no explanation for the presence of the 'back spike' current." - The NBS team (supervisory physicist Dr Robert Hebner) published a test protocol dated 20 Mar 1986, measuring output with resistors at the coil terminals. "In the 77 measurements they recorded ... they found internal power losses between input and output of between 2.2 watts and 4.9 watts, and calculated the efficiency of the device at between 27 per cent and 77 per cent." - Power source in the tests: a battery pack of alkaline dry cells in series. - Other cited records: NBS report NBSIR 86-3405 (June 1986), on the National Capital Area Skeptics site; Federal Circuit appeal 877 F.2d 1575 (1989); Orlando Sentinel 8 Feb 1987 ("Energy inventor triumphs in court", Hastings of Sperry Corp named); Chicago Tribune 29 Aug 1986 "Perpetual commotion". Not opened. Bears on Kelly's Chapter 11 claim (Newman COP 8.0 / 800 percent "measured by Dr Roger Hastings", no report cited) and on claim 2. Hastings' figure counts the back-spike energy as output; NBS's protocol measured resistor power at the coil. Both are in the record; Newman and the Patent Office were opposing parties.