While participating on another forum several years ago, someone contacted me out of the blue saying that they had an old booklet they thought I might be interested in, or that they thought I should have, I can't remember now, it was such a long time ago. Anyway, I agreed and the booklet arrived in the mail soon thereafter.
It is apparently something provided to prospective stock holders.
It seems Mr. Place succeeded in getting his "perpetual" ambient heat powered engine patented and had begun offering stock in "The Standard Power Company".
A portion of the booklet is pitching the opportunity to buy stock in the company, but there is also a lot of theory and diagrams with explanations of the proposed working mechanism.
I believe that this bundle of documentation is very very rare. I have not found any trace or mention of it. For all I know it may be the last copy left in existence.
Anyway, while at college a few years ago, there was a big high resolution book scanner in the library, so I spent an afternoon scanning the booklet from cover to cover, but the images are high resolution amounting to about 200 Megabytes as a zip file and difficult to wade through as separate files.
I just finished converting those original imagesfrom jpg to PDF, reduced to about 9MB.
This engine is, or appears to be VERY similar to the "Self-Acting Engine" described by Tesla a few years earlier in his year1900 Century magazine article "Increasing Human Energy", at least in principle.
Anyway, I'm uploading the PDF here for anyone who might be interested.
continuous_power_james_place.pdf (Size: 8.99 MB / Downloads: 47)
What ever happened to James Place and his Standard Power Company I don't know. There is virtually no information or even much of any mention of James Place, the company or his invention.
I may have been wrong?
I just found the booklet on Amazon, having been re-published just a few years ago.
I wonder if that was from my scans I made available on a few forums several years ago.
Continuous power the natural result of converting heat into work in an insulated expansion engine at temperatures below the normal of the atmosphere, by J. F. Place. 1902 [Leather Bound] https://a.co/d/5LtUz24
It is apparently something provided to prospective stock holders.
It seems Mr. Place succeeded in getting his "perpetual" ambient heat powered engine patented and had begun offering stock in "The Standard Power Company".
A portion of the booklet is pitching the opportunity to buy stock in the company, but there is also a lot of theory and diagrams with explanations of the proposed working mechanism.
I believe that this bundle of documentation is very very rare. I have not found any trace or mention of it. For all I know it may be the last copy left in existence.
Anyway, while at college a few years ago, there was a big high resolution book scanner in the library, so I spent an afternoon scanning the booklet from cover to cover, but the images are high resolution amounting to about 200 Megabytes as a zip file and difficult to wade through as separate files.
I just finished converting those original imagesfrom jpg to PDF, reduced to about 9MB.
This engine is, or appears to be VERY similar to the "Self-Acting Engine" described by Tesla a few years earlier in his year1900 Century magazine article "Increasing Human Energy", at least in principle.
Anyway, I'm uploading the PDF here for anyone who might be interested.
continuous_power_james_place.pdf (Size: 8.99 MB / Downloads: 47)
What ever happened to James Place and his Standard Power Company I don't know. There is virtually no information or even much of any mention of James Place, the company or his invention.
I may have been wrong?
I just found the booklet on Amazon, having been re-published just a few years ago.
I wonder if that was from my scans I made available on a few forums several years ago.
Continuous power the natural result of converting heat into work in an insulated expansion engine at temperatures below the normal of the atmosphere, by J. F. Place. 1902 [Leather Bound] https://a.co/d/5LtUz24
