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Son of Late Magnet-Motor Inventor Attests to Device Authenticity
Thirty-three years after Lee Bowman's passing, his son now speaks
up. Attests to having witnessed the device in operation, tells of
lingering family scars over investor litigation.
by Sterling
D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News Exclusive
Copyright © 2005
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA -- In the world of free energy, the name "Lee
Bowman" is synonymous with a magnetic motor that he built. Legend has
it that his magnet motor worked. The motor consisted of interacting rotors
that turned by the power of magnets alone -- no other input. He had come
up with a design that aligned the magnets in such a way that their repel/attract
characteristics resulted in a net thrust causing rotation in the motor.
Bowman
Motor Animation by Eric Vogels
Robert Calloway's replication, said to be
functional.
Tom Ferko's replication, didn't work.
Ken Hegimann's replication, didn't work.
Andreas Rogge's replication, didn't work.
Sven Utne's replication, didn't work.
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Based on the strength of that legend, and others like it from a myriad of
other such claims, including a claim to a successful replication of the Bowman
motor by Douglass A. Mann, we commenced an open source project here at Pure
Energy Systems in December 2003. We soon discovered that another
person, Robert Calloway, had also achieved a successful replication of the
motor. Mann's motor ran for three months before it came to a stop, the
magnets having lost enough of their magnetism.
Conveying the plans in a manner adequate to enable others to replicate the
effect has not been easy. After a few months of various replication
attempts by a few dozen people, the project went to the backburner. (I
have been told that there has been some recent success behind the scenes on a
successful design of a variant that is pending announcement).
Then, last November, a friend of Bowman's contacted us, but that lead did not
result in adequate clarifications. Being busy with other matters, I
neglected to update the website header, and it continued to say, "In Nov.
2004, a personal friend of the late Lee Bowman stepped forward wanting to
help. We are in process of clarifying things with him."
Meanwhile, last week, the son of the late Lee Bowman happened upon our site when
doing a Google search for "Lee Bowman." He was astonished to see
the extent of information and effort that had been extended toward its
resurrection. More than thirty years have passed since his father passed
away in 1972, and he had thought the motor and its design had gone to the grave
with his father, never to be seen again.
He is the only son from his father's marriage later in life to a young woman of
28, thirty years younger.
The son phoned me Sunday night, primarily to warn me about this
"friend" we mentioned on our site, if it was who he thought it was --
an individual who had imposed great injury on his family and their
reputation. We have subsequently determined that the "friend"
was not the same as he had supposed.
The son has requested that I not give his own first name in this report, as he
does not wish to be inundated with inquiries on this matter. He wishes to
keep his phone and email and specific location unpublished. He has been in
touch with two of us who have been involved in this project, myself and Doug
Mann, so there are two witnesses on our team to his existence and statements.
According to his son, Lee Bowman was an extremely secretive person, keeping most
things in his head, committing very little to writing. Born in 1887, he
made his career in geophysics, and was a professional machinist who took pride
in his precision. Constantly inventing gadgets, very often he enclosed
them in a black box to prevent an observer from figuring out how he did what he
did. One invention would go over a suspected oil field and determine its
concentration and depth.
The magnet motor that the son saw was built in or around 1971, a year before his
father's death in 1972. The son doesn't know when the first attempts were
made on that motor design.
He saw the magnet motor running with his own eyes. He tried to stop its rotation
with his hands -- and couldn't without burning his hands.
He said the motor began to spin when his dad brought an actuator magnet into
vicinity of one of the rotors. Attached to the motor was a small generator
of the type used on bicycle wheels to power a headlight. There was also a
light. This was to demonstrate the capability of this small motor to run
under load. He looked all around the device to confirm that there was no
other input mechanism beside the magnets.
He said that a number of people came to his father's house and were shown the
motor. At one point his father went to Spokane to demonstrate the device.
The son's memory is foggy after these many years as to just how the device
looked, but he said the drawings and replications we feature on our site are a
close approximation to what he remembers. A significant difference is that
he recalls that his father's motor was fabricated not of Lucite, but of aluminum
-- precisely machined for balance. He also recalls that the magnets were
not the typical N-S type. His recollection was that the "pole was in
the middle". He said his memory was not clear on this point.
Around the time that that son witnessed the motor, in operation, an investor,
Ben Neil (sp?), came onto the scene. What ensued was unfortunate.
Lee had disassembled the motor in
order to try to get it to run in reverse. Meanwhile, his vision was
failing and he had also damaged one of his eyes in a fall. He asked Neil
to take the device home and continue to work on it until his eye healed.
When Lee asked Neil to bring the device back to his shop, Neil refused.
Lees health was deteriorating, and his memory was fading.
After Lees death in 1972, Neil said that he could not get the device to
work. Upset that his investment might come to naught, he chose to sue the
Bowman estate. Neil and other investors claimed in court that Lee had used
batteries in the device, using trickery to make it appear that the motor was
driving the bicycle light. They alleged that the opposite was taking place
-- the bicycle apparatus was driving the motor in an intentionally fraudulent
set-up. Neil said that he had seen batteries in the shop.
The son is confident that these accusations were not true, both from his
own inspection of the device, as well as from his knowledge of his father's
character.
The court decided in the investors' favor, after Lee's untimely death.
The independent replication recently by Doug Mann as well as by Robert Calloway
vindicate the integrity of Lee's claim to a functional design.
The son reports that his father was in process of filing for a patent, but when
Neil began his accusations, Lee, in anger, tore up what few documents he had
relating to the motor. There are no photos of the device that the son
knows of.
After his death, because of the suit, his wife had to move from their house to a
mobile home. The suit left the family deeply bitter toward any notion of
pursuing the motor.
Nevertheless, thirty-plus years later, the son was pleased to see the work we
are doing, and is supportive of the open source concept. He has agreed to
allow one of our number to come and retrieve any pertinent items from what is
left of his father's shop, as long as it is made available to the project
openly. Doug Mann plans to make the trip.
There is not likely to be much. The son inherited his dad's workshop, but
there is not much left after rust damage, petty theft, and a few moves.
Presently it is all in a bin together, where it has sat for around 20
years. He doesn't think there will be much there worth note, if
anything. Neil had the important components.
The son has conveyed this recent development to his mother, who is in her 80s
now. She has reviewed this correspondence and has commented upon it
through her son, but will not comment directly nor receive questions
directly. We thank her for her willingness to at least review the matter,
and hope that our interest in her husband's work will be encouraging to her.
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SOURCES:
- Lee Bowman's son, via phone conversation and email correspondence.
- Phone conversations with Doug Mann.
- Bowman
Magnetic Motor Project - (index at PureEnergySystems.com)
See also
Page composed by Sterling
D. Allan August 3, 2005
Last updated September 10, 2005
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