Bangerter's Inventions; His Marvelous Time Clock

A Practical Invention

This is emphatically not the case with Mr. Bangerter. His is a most practical mind. His record as an inventor is one of successes. He has had twenty years’ experience as a practical and technical mechanical engineer, with a great number of patents and inventions in operation all over the world. His marvelous automatic machines--taking wrought casting and bars of metal and automatically making gears, chains, spindles, screws, pinions, etc., of the highest precision--is a striking example of his great ability.

At two World’s Expositions--in Paris, 1900, and Belgium, 1905--the Jury of International Selection of Mechanical Experts awarded him Silver and Gold Medals and Diplomas for his inventions of the most marvelous machines.

A Truly Wonderful Invention

Bangerter’s Perpetual Time Clock is a truly wonderful mechanism and an exact, reliable timepiece. It will do the work for which it is intended, as long as the mechanical parts hold together--as long as the shafts and spindles run in their bearings.

In other words, this clock will run for

generations--yes, from 100 to 500 years--without winding. During this unbelievably long period this clock will run, show the exact time, strike the hours and play the marvelous Westminster melodies without the slightest expenditure of time or effort in winding up with springs or weights.

There is employed no electricity, chemicals, secret preparations or fuel, to produce the power and energy to run Bangerter’s Perpetual Force Clock. Yet there is a natural law behind it all--the secret of its practical application was discovered and successfully applied by the young Swiss inventor.

WHAT DOES PERPETUAL MOTION MEAN?

To avoid loss of time and to obviate dissension and discussion between readers and critics herewith is given the technical understanding of the title “PERPETUAL MOTION.” It is taken from “The International Cyclopedia,” Vol. II, Page 522, and reads as follows:

“Perpetual Motion means an engine which, without any supply of power from without, can not only maintain its own motion forever, or as long as its material lasts, but can also be applied to drive machinery, and therefore to do external work. In other words, it means a device for creating power energy without corresponding expenditure. This is now known to be absolutely impossible, no matter what physical forces be employed.”

The Bangerter Clock is eloquent evidence that the theory just quoted (and heretofore generally accepted as correct) is not, in fact, correct. It will be necessary, in the face of this new discovery, to write a new definition of Perpetual Motion.

Impossibilities of yesterday are the stern realities of to-day. We have now arrived at such a stage of advancement as to be surprised at no discovery or invention, no matter how improbable or wonderful.

NAPOLEON’S FATAL ERROR.

Napoleon was advised not to listen to Fulton’s plan of the steamboat--a certain cause of his downfall, for had he accepted Fulton’s radical and previously unheard of ideas he would presently have a fleet of steamships. He would thus be Emperor of the Ocean, for with his fleet of steamships he would surely have conquered Britain’s old-fashioned sailing navy.

Ten years ago all the scientific men to whom Bangerter presented his plans for an airship, gravely shook their heads. They said:--

“Your principle is right--it shows the most practical device we have yet seen, and if there were such proposition as a ‘heavier-than-air’ possibility you would have the best chance of success.”

Very well, the “heavier-than-air” possibility has become a certainty. To-day scientific men see the weight of a man’s body (increased by a heavy framework and many mechanical contrivances) soar lightly and majestically between the blue sky and the earth below. The dream of the pitied and sneered at inventor of a decade ago is exemplified to-day all over the civilized world!

All this the scientists a few years ago did not see.

The new born force--insignificant in size and appearance, but giant-like in actual force--now known as the gasolene engine, did not then make an appearance. But now hundreds of machines are flying all over the world--propelled by the pygmy gasolene engine.

In other words, as the force of a man is mechanically figured to 1-7 of one H. P., some gasolene engines of the weight and size of a man develop 700 times more power.

This enormous force may soon bring about a revolution in warfare by displacing powder as a force to expel bullets from guns.

Tests made last year with a small model gun have demonstrated great possibilities by shooting small 3-8 inch round ball-bearing at so terrific a speed that they pierced a 1½-inch pine target at 60 feet distance, and in such enormous quantities that inside of a few seconds five targets were riddled to atoms.

FLYING MACHINES EVERYWHERE.

Aeroplanes are to-day counted by hundreds. Some carry ten or more men at a time, and keeping it up for hours with a speed of nearly 100 miles per hour.

How great is the number of the wonderful time-saving, effort-saving and distance-annihilating inventions of the past fifty years!

How wonderful is the transformation! How sudden and how amazingly great is the progress that a single generation produces in this remarkable century! Great men have lived before us. Intellectual giants were our fathers and grandfathers. But the time had not come for the infinite hand to touch the mainspring that would set all these fountains of activity to pouring out their rich treasures of knowledge and invention. But as soon as the time is reached, how supremely marvelous are the undreamed-of achievements!

AMERICA! LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES.

The development of the greatest of all countries--the United States of America--is a most prolific source and cause of inventions. After the Civil War had proven that equality and freedom were not mere figures of speech, but that they were real, substantial blessings to be enjoyed by all American citizens, a great stimulus to inventive genius was given. The brains responded to the call for improvement and development.

The winnings from mining, the rewards from manufacture, the profits to be derived in the thousand and one forms of commerce and the handsome payments to be derived from agriculture, lumbering, cattle raising, fruit culture, etc., were the strongest possible incentives to the exercise of brains and inventive ingenuity.

Manufacture and commerce were fostered and developed by rapid transportation. Railroads and steamships soon ran wherever needed. Prosperity and happiness were the natural results of this wholesale national activity.

The machinery of warfare, such as marine fortifications, great guns and war vessels, was installed and maintained at an enormous expense.

It is not too much to say that America’s prosperity has aroused the greatest possible interest in European countries. They have made the most strenuous exertions in order to compete in the world’s trade marts.

STIMULUS TO INVENTIVE GENIUS.