Inter-Atomic Ion Energy Claim

The inter-atomic ion energy claim is the assertion, reported by the New York Times on March 7, 1928, that Antonio d'Angelo, S.J. had invented a motor that "makes use of 'interatomic' energy to generate many times the power it receives originally from an electric battery."

The claim as reported

The Times article attributes to d'Angelo the following:

• The motor "started to develop energy from an electric battery," and this "original impulse worked on the machine to generate many times its power through the 'electricity produced by the inter-atomic energy of the ions'."
• The motor "could be used in the home to supply electric lighting cheaply, and even heating," and could "run trains, airplanes and automobiles."
• The motor was then in Washington "undergoing the Patent Office investigation."

The article also records d'Angelo's rejection of the Hendershot "fuelless motor": "I challenge anyone to use the magnetic field of the earth for running a motor. The energy from that would be too small."

Evidence status

The Times account is a press report of an inventor's announcement. It contains no measurements, no independent test, no demonstration data, and no technical description beyond a plan d'Angelo showed the reporter. It is a historical record of a claim, not validation of one.

Relationship to the patent

The 1935 patent granted to d'Angelo (US2021177 Motor Generator & Other Transformer) describes an electromagnetic motor-generator and rotary transformer with a specific winding geometry (Differential-Pitch Pole-Armature Winding). The patent text as reproduced does not claim over-unity and does not mention ions or inter-atomic energy. The gap between the 1928 press claim and the 1935 patent is the central tension of the source. See d'Angelo Claims vs. Evidence: The 1928 Press Report, the 1935 Patent and the Absence of Measurement.

Relationship to other claims

The claim is a historical instance of the pattern collected under over-unity-claims. It is thematically adjacent to early-20th-century free-energy and anomalous-energy claims in the same archive, but the source does not connect it to any specific other case beyond d'Angelo's own contrast with Hendershot.

Related

• Antonio d'Angelo
• US2021177 Motor Generator & Other Transformer
• over-unity-claims
• d'Angelo Claims vs. Evidence: The 1928 Press Report, the 1935 Patent and the Absence of Measurement