File:C. C. Tuch - 1909-10-29 - Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, HI), p. 1.jpg

Summary
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]), 29 Oct. 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Patent rights have been granted C. C. Tuch, of this city, on a machine that runs itself on power self-generated, a perpetual motion machine, in other words. This power generating machine is one which its inventor expects will revolutionize the mechanical world. Yesterday he received word that the patent office had investigated his machine, had considered the merits of it and had agreed to issue the patent. Now he has applied for foreign patents and is prepared to put his invention upon the market. Mr. Tuch makes his claims in a modest way, although the claims themselves are very far from modest. His discovery is in the utilization of centrifugal power in a new way, being, in short, to use the force developed in the turning of a flywheel to develop electricity to be reapplied to the wheel, his contention being that the momentum gained by the application of ten-horse power, for instance, will develop fifty- horse power, the extra power to be employed at will. Mr. Tuch's drawings show the fly-wheels, side by side, each acting on a common dynamo through a shifting belt. Electrical power is to be applied to one wheel, sufficient to drive it at a high speed. Then the power is shut off, but the wheel continues to revolve through its own momentum. This momentum develops electrical power to be applied to the other flywheel, so that as soon as the momentum slackens on the one the other will be ready to take up the work. "There have been many attempts to develop perpetual motion through the application of power on the rim of a wheel," said Mr. Tuch yesterday, "but heretofore always by applying weights, which had to be lifted by the wheel again. I apply electricity, and there is no weight to electricity. The machine will work, and when I demonstrate it the whole system of power transmission will be revolutionized."