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When the machine was finally produced (1924), it was a heavy cast-iron flywheel to which a one-quarter horsepower electric motor was clutched. After Mr. Giragossian ran the little motor two weeks, the flywheel turned so fast that a braking force of 150 horsepower was necessary to stop it. The 150 h. p. merely represented the accumulated energy of one-quarter horsepower applied over a two-week period. When it was discovered that Mr. Giragossian had made use of a "time-lever," he was told to get out of the halls of Congress until he could prove that he was the "first and original discoverer or inventor." Last February his good friend, Representative Clarence John McLeod of Michigan, again persuaded Congress to consider the Garabed wheel.
* Patent No. 1,000,000, granted in 1911 to Francis H. Holton of Akron, Ohio, was for "an improvement in [rubber] vehicle tires."
*All described in BEWARE OF IMITATIONS—by A. E. Brown & H. A. J effcott Jr.—Viking ($1)