Who is Alfred M. Hubbard?

How many of you have heard the name Alfred M. Hubbard before?


"The Post-Intelligencer (Seattle WA), Thursday, July 29, 1920 ~

Hubbard Coil Runs Boat On Portage Bay Ten Knots An Hour; Auto Test Next

Seattle Boy Inventor Makes Good His Claims of Last December When He Announced Discovery to P.I."

The following is an exerpt from the article that the paper wrote.

Alfred M. Hubbard, Seattle boy inventor of a device which for want of a better name he terms an atmospheric power generator, yesterday made good his prediction that he would drive a motorboat with the apparatus as a source of power.

An eighteen foot boat, propelled by a thirty-five-horse power electric motor, which obtained its current from the Hubbard coil, was driven about Portage Bay on Lake Union.  Among those who witnessed the demonstration was a well-known local capitalist, the inventor's father,William H. Hubbard, and a Post Intelligencer reporter.

The boat traveled at a speed of between eight and ten knots--silently, except for the whirring of a chain belt which connected the motor with the propeller shaft.  When the chain belt was removed, the motor ran free at a speed estimated at 3,500 revolutions

The full article on Alfred Hubbard and his invention can be read at the following link
 Alfred Hubbard

Alfred proved that his device could and did power a boat around Portage Bay but he was unable to see his invention into reality like many inventors past and present.

Mark Twain once said "The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds"

That statement is as true today as it was over 100 years ago when Mark Twain first said it. 

Making a new invention today especially when it works outside the known physical laws understood today will always run into many of the learned scientists rejecting the device because they do not understand it.

A couple of examples of this are:

Nichola Tesla managed to receive radio signals from outer space. The scientific community and the press totally discredited Tesla as they believed that it could not be true. Today we all know that there is radio waves reaching earth from distant stars.

Tesla gave a talk on his theory that everything is in constant motion, this was at the turn of the 1900's this was way before the scientific community discovered atoms and today this phenomena  is called Quantum Physics.

The learned scientists of the day as well as todays scientists have a very hard time thinking outside the box. I had better qualify this last statement I personally believe that our whole society suffers  from from the same narrow mindedness. We are taught to think this way by our education system.

All that I am saying is that if any of you that are presently developing an invention that is outside the box you will most probably run into a lot of obstacles before you can get your invention accepted by the scientific community.  Do check out the Alfred Hubbard link above it is very interesting.

That is all for now, until next next time keep on inventing.