File:Otto Sieberus - Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minn.) - 1904-02-24, p. 10.jpg

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.), 24 Feb. 1904. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. 

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ELECTRICITY; GRAVITATION STARTLING STORY COMES FROM SPRING VALLEY, WIS. Sieberus, a Young Inventor, Says He Can Raise Himself and Other Objects from the Earth — Gravitation Overcome by Electrical Charges Special to The Journal. Spring Valley, Wis., Feb. 24. — An electrical invention by Otto Sieberus, a young business man of Spring Valley, is said to overcome gravitation. By the aid of electricity Mr. Sieberus is enabled to rise from the earth and to raise other objects. It has been known for centuries that two electrically charged bodies attract or repel each other, according as they are charged with the same or opposite kinds of electricity. It has been more than suspected that gravitation is merely the pull of the earth's electricity. But until now no one has succeeded in so charging a body with electricity that the gravitation would be overcome and the body free to rise from the earth. Mr. Sieberus made a new form of electrical machine and charged his body one day as an experiment. He noticed that his body was almost without weight. He at once followed this line of experiment and succeeded in getting the electrical charge strong enough to overcome gravitation. The difficulty remaining is caused by the quick dissipation of the charge; this Mr. Sieberus is seeking to overcome by means of a silk garment. He has taken a caveat at Washington and expects to perfect and patent his invention in time to show it at the world's fair at St. Louis.