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Hendershot Fuelless Motor (hendershot3)

What this record is

This page documents the source archive index page for Lester J. Hendershot's fuelless motor (the third Hendershot page on the site). The page is a link list, not a full article: it names eight items — newspaper clippings from 1928 and a Popular Science Monthly piece — and links to their PDFs, but supplies no body text, captions, or claims from those items themselves.

This article records what can be established about the page itself and maps it to the existing wiki material on the same subject. It is a provenance record, not a summary of a document.

What the page lists

The page is an index of Hendershot fuelless-motor material, with each entry linking to a PDF:

  • The Pittsburgh Press (27 Feb 1928) — "Bandit's Bullet, Boy's Smile, Help New Motor Development"
  • The Pittsburgh Press (28 Feb 1928), p. 1 — "Early Models of 'Fuelless Motor'"
  • Beaver Falls Tribune (28 Feb 1928), p. 9 / The Citizen (Ottawa) (6 March 1928), p. 1 — "Challenges the Fuelless Motor"
  • Beaver Falls Tribune (28 Feb 1928), p. 1 / The Citizen (Ottawa) (11 March 1928), p. 3 — "No Gas, But Motor Runs"
  • The Evening Independent (27 Feb 1928), p. 1 — "New Magnetic Motor Runs On Principle Of Compass"
  • Popular Science Monthly (July 1928), p. 25 — E. E. Free, "The Truth about Fuelless Motors"
  • Manfred Obagon, "Hendershot Generator" (PDF)

The page also cross-links to two earlier Hendershot pages on the same site (hendershot.htm and hendershot2.htm).

Relationship to the existing Hendershot material

The wiki already holds a Hendershot cluster drawn from a separate source page:

This page is hendershot3.htm, distinct from whatever page underlies the earlier dossier. Two readings are possible and cannot be distinguished from the available evidence:

  1. A distinct page in the same series. the source archive often splits a subject across several pages (for example hendershot.htm, hendershot2.htm, hendershot3.htm), each carrying a different set of scans or clippings. Under this reading, the page extends the existing cluster with new material.
  2. A duplicate of material already covered. Under this reading the page repeats material already covered and should be merged into or cross-linked with the existing dossier rather than treated as new evidence.

The collection label "dossier 23 — The fuelless motor" does not resolve the ambiguity: the numbering appears to be a collection-level label rather than a unique document identifier, since the wiki already contains a Hendershot fuelless-motor dossier.

What cannot be reported

The page supplies titles, dates, and publication names for the linked items, but no body text from those items. No claims, mechanisms, dimensions, patent numbers, test results, or quotations from the underlying articles can be attributed to this source; only the bibliographic entries above are established.

For the substantive treatment of the subject — the inventor, the device, the fuelless-motor claim and the evidence question — see the existing pages listed above. Those pages rest on their own sources, not on this one.

Limitations and unresolved questions

  • Body text. The page gives the index entries and links but not the contents of the linked PDFs.
  • Page identity. The page cross-links to hendershot.htm and hendershot2.htm, indicating it is a distinct page in a series, though the extent of overlap with the earlier wiki dossier is not established here.
  • Linked material. The PDFs themselves are not part of the source used here.

Related work

Source notes & attribution
  1. https://rexresearch.com/hendershot3/hendershot3.htm