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THE INVENTION OF HANS COLER RELATING TO AN ALLEGED NEW SOURCE OF POWER output of 6 kilowatts could be The "Magnetstromapparat" was obtained indefinitely. No example of developed by Coler and von Unruh this apparatus exists today, but Coler (now dead) early in 1933, and they expressed his willingness to construct were later assisted by Franz Haid of it, given the materials, the time Siemens—Schukert, who built himself required being about three weeks. a model which worked in December Opportunity was taken to interrogate 1933. This was seen by Dr. Kurt Mie Dr. F. Modersohn who had been _ of Berlin Technische Hochschule and associated with Coler for ten years and Herr Fehr (Haber's assistant at the had provided financial backing. He K.W..), who reported that the device corroborated Coler's story in every apparently worked, and that they detail. could detect no fraud. One model is Neither Coler nor Modersohn [was] said to have worked for 3 months able to give any theory to account for locked in a room in the Norwegian the working of these devices, using Legation in Berlin in 1933. No further acceptable scientific notions. work appears to have been done on this system since that date. um LICTADICAL AINATEC Reported by R. Hurst, Ministry of Supply, for the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, BIOS Final Report No. 1043 (undated; transcribed verbatim) I. OBJECT OF VISIT AND detail. could detect no fraud. One model is SUMMARY Neither Coler nor Modersohn [was] said to have worked for 3 months oler is the inventor of two able to give any theory to account for locked in a room in the Norwegian ( devices by which it is alleged the working of these devices, using Legation in Berlin in 1933. No further electrical energy may be acceptable scientific notions. work appears to have been done on derived without a chemical or this system since that date. mechanical source of power. Since an II. HISTORICAL NOTES official interest was taken in his 1. The "Magnetstromapparat" 2. The "Stromerzeuger" inventions by the German Admiralty it This device consists of six This device consists of an was felt that investigation was permanent magnets wound ina special arrangement of magnets, flat coils, warranted, although normally it would way so that the circuit includes the and copper plates, with a primary be considered that such a claim could magnet itself as well as the winding circuit energised by a small dry only be fraudulent. (see Fig. 1). These six magnet-coils battery. The output from the Accordingly Coler was visited and are arranged in a hexagon and_ secondary was used to light a bank of interrogated. He proved to be co- connected as shown in the diagram lamps and was claimed to be many operative and willing to disclose all (Figs. 2 and 3), in a circuit which times the original input, and to details of his devices, and consented includes two small condensers, a continue indefinitely. Details of the to build up and put into operation a switch, and a pair of solenoidal coils, circuit, and a theory as to its mode of small model of the so-called one sliding inside the other. To bring operation were given (summarized in "Magnetstromapparat" using material the device into operation the switch is Appendix I). supplied to him by us, and working left open, the magnets are moved In 1925 Coler showed a small (10- only in our presence. With this slightly apart, and the sliding coil set watt) version to Prof. Kloss (Berlin), device, consisting only of permanent into various positions, with a wait of who asked the Government to give it a magnets, copper coils, and condensers several minutes between adjustments. thorough investigation, but this was in a static arrangement, he showed The magnets are then separated still refused, as was also a patent, on the that he could obtain a tension of 450 further, and the coils moved again. grounds that it was a "perpetual millivolts for a period of some hours: This process is repeated until at a motion machine". This version was and in a repetition of the experiment critical separation of the magnets an also seen by Profs. Schumann the next day 60 millivolts was indication appears on the voltmeter. (Munich), Bragstad (Trondheim) and recorded for a short period. The The switch is now closed, and the Knudsen (Copenhagen). Reports by apparatus has been brought back and procedure continued more slowly. Kloss and Schumann are translated in is now being further investigated. The tension then builds up gradually Appendices II and III. Coler also discussed another device to a maximum, and should then In 1933 Coler and von Unruh made called the "Stromerzeuger", from remain indefinitely. The greatest up a slightly larger model with an which he claimed that with an input of tension obtained was stated to be 12. output of 70 watts. This was a few watts from a dry battery an_ volts. demonstrated to Dr. F. Modersohn, NEXUS ¢ 43 DECEMBER 2008 — JANUARY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com