inventor refused to say anything about what was under the covering in the little gun-room.
Wall Street brokers had offered Mr. Bangerter the necessary capital to build a standard size gun, but Mr. Bangerter soon found out that their plans were to get the secret of his invention and take it from him. He therefore separated from these brokers and has had nothing to do with them since. He has kept his secrets and has remained true to the words he declared which were published in the New York World of March 1st, 1908, that if he does not make money out of his invention nobody else shall.
Army officers and scientific men marvelled at the great results of Bangerter’s model gun. Before the tests no one believed in its success, declaring it impossible. Mr. Bangerter has never applied for a patent for this invention, as he intended to sell the secrets to a government, and therefore kept the plans carefully.
Naturally everyone was still skeptical as to the outcome of a standard-size gun, and to show to those who kept an eye on him that impossibilities of yesterday are made the realities of to-day, he centered his mind on another impossibility--his Perpetual Clock--while apparently forgetting his gun for a year.
“Perpetual Motion the Folly of All Ages” has become an eloquent reality.
A crowning result of his strenuous labor on this marvelous clock was the outcome of three other inventions which the studies in a large field of problems have brought to life as his anniversary self-winding clock, his fire alarm and sprinkler apparatus. These inventions and others not here mentioned, owing to lack of space, stamp Friedrich Bangerter as a most unusual and fertile-minded inventor.
His crowning achievement in inventing that marvel of marvels--
has therefore a background of brilliant accomplishments, profound studies and many natural abilities behind a work that shall ever establish his fame as inventor of The Perpetual Clock.
[Illustration: BANGERTER’S AUTOMATIC JEWELER.
This Automatic Jeweler Making Collar Buttons at the Belgian World Exposition, 1905, Often Mistaken for a Living Man. Thousands of Collar Buttons of His Make Were Sold Within the Exposition Grounds.]
[Illustration: BANGERTER’S AIRSHIP, THE STAR.