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John E. Moray

John E. Moray was born October 23, 1928. He started working in his father’s company, The Research Institute, a Utah Corporation, at the age of sixteen washing chemical glassware and doing odd jobs while being tutored by his father regarding his energy source, which he called Radiant Energy. His father was his hero. As long as he can remember, he was devoted to the idea that his father demonstrated there was energy throughout space. He was raised with the understanding that he would be the one to carry the work on. He continued to work for the Research Institute during his college years. It was during this time he was called to serve a two-year mission for The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints. On his return, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was shipped over seas towards the end of the Korean War. John retired from the Army Reserve as a full Colonel in 1983, having been credited with 10 ½ years active service with a total of 30 years Reserve service. He is a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam War. He regrets that he never had a command in combat. He served as Aid De Camp to two Maj. Generals and was recognize for his ability in tactics. He received recognition for his ability to teach Corps operations by the Presidio USAR School At the University of Utah John studied chemistry, physics, and pharmacy receiving a degree in Military Science and Tactics. John has been active in Kiwanis International for 50 years. During that time, he served as District Governor for the Utah-Idaho District, 1991-92, and has served on a number of International committees. In 1951, he became president of the Research Institute, retiring from this position in 1986. He married Emma Lou Romney in December 1952 and they make their home in Salt Lake City, Utah. They have four children, sixteen grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. He is presently commissionaire for the Murray Clan of Utah. He was considered by his father as his protégé and has spent his life trying to show the world that his father had a viable energy device. “THE WORLD COULD BE BETTER FOR THIS”

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    The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats - John E. Moray

    Copyright © 2012 by John E. Moray.

    Library of Congress Control Number:       2012901677

    ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-5980-5

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    First Printing 1930

    as Beyond the Light Rays

    copyrighted 1945 and 1956 by

    T. Henry Moray

    5th edition revised

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    The Sea Of Energy…

    "Enough energy is coming to the earth to light over 1.5 million (1,693,600) 100-watt lamps for every human being on the earth today. Without the use of a prime mover, no fuel of any kind need be taken as a dead load since this energy can be ‘picked up’ directly by ocean liners, airplanes, or any form of transportation. Heat, light, and power can be made available for use in all kinds of building and for all kinds of machinery. An example would be to pump water onto the desert lands, the power source being only a fraction of the weight of any steam plant or any kind of engine in use today, and all this at a fraction of the current cost.

    A wild dream? No! It’s a proven reality, as hundreds of people know who have witnessed the Moray Radiant Energy invention—powered from the cosmos. So stated Thomas Henry Moray in the original edition of his book The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats.

    Nikola Tesla insisted the energy of the universe was waiting to be tapped. Great scientists have mathematically proven its existence. Why has this greatest source of energy been ignored? Is the reason political or economical?

    THE SEA OF ENERGY

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    T. Henry Moray

    pictured as in office

    The Sea Of Energy

    from the original

    The Sea Of Energy in Which

    The Earth Floats

    by T. Henry Moray

    Revised and Reprinted

    1978 from the 1960

    4th edition

    5th edition printed 1978

    5th edition revised 2011

    History and Biography by

    John E. Moray

    In Memory of My Father

    CONTENTS

    CHAPTER 1

    CHAPTER 2

    CHAPTER 3

    CHAPTER 4

    CHAPTER 5

    CHAPTER 6

    CHAPTER 7

    CHAPTER 8

    CHAPTER 9

    CHAPTER 10

    CHAPTER 11

    REFERENCES

    APPENDICES

    APPENDIX I

    APPENDIX II

    APPENDIX III

    APPENDIX IV

    APPENDIX V

    APPENDIX VI

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    T. Henry Moray, 1932

    INTRODUCTION TO 4th EDITION

    Radiant Energy is the term Moray has used to describe the source of energy coming from the cosmos to the earth and radiating from the earth back from whence it came. This is the energy the Moray device captures and could be described as those particles of energy pervading all space. In the evolution of energy and the evolution of matter these particles of matter and energy (one and the same) manifest under certain conditions as pure energy and under others as pure matter. Radiant Energy from the cosmos, like radiant particles of matter, being composed of an infinitesimal quantity whose behaviors are described by mathematical equations similar to those used for describing electrical waves, keeping in mind to differentiate between wave length and frequency. Radiant Energy is particles of energy, just as light is wavelengths and particles are comparable to the electron and magneton: a ring of negative electricity traveling in a vortex with the speed of light, streams of energy quanta, each quantum having energy and momentum where the electron revolves around the proton at a distance equal to the electron radius.

    To summarize—Radiant Energy as herein used is that energy existing in the luminiferous medium of the universe, kinetic and exercised in wave transmission and rendered sensible by conversion of its energy into a detectable frequency. In the final analysis radiant energy is a means of using the energy released by the fissionable reactions taking place in the stellar crucibles of the universe.

    INTRODUCTION TO THE 5TH EDITION

    At a recent Kiwanis meeting I heard a lecture given by the public relations officer of the Bell Telephone Company. The speaker illustrated his lecture with a historical film by Bell Laboratories justifying their position as a research organization and a leader in communications. It was interesting to note that although the film was essentially correct, the story did not coincide in all particulars with what actually took place. For example, Bell gave Mr. Edison the credit for the electric light. He definitely deserves a great deal of credit. However, Edison only took a known principle of the day and produced a workable lamp globe by discovering through tedious trial and error the one thing, the tungsten filament, which would stand up under the crude vacuum systems then available to him. Naturally enough, the Bell film also gave Alexander Graham Bell great credit for the telephone. But it was really Joshius Coppersmith who first made a practical demonstration of a telephone. Likewise, the narrator in the film spoke of how Mr. Farnsworth had developed television. In fact, the first television demonstration was made by Francis Jenkins to Secretary of the Navy, Wilber, at the old Naval Radio Station in Washington, DC, in June 1925.*

    Research organizations such as Bell Labs have succeeded in large part because they have been able to inform the world of their work and thus market it. On the other hand, many young men—Francis Jenkins, for example have come and gone, disappearing into obscurity, making great discoveries but receiving no credit for them, unable to develop them fully. I think one of the greatest such discoveries was the invention of the radio by the Spanish physicist, Slava. One hundred and fifty years before radio was generally known, Slava transmitted radio signals from an island off the coast of Spain back to the mainland.

    Fifty years before the advent of the atomic bomb, Dr. Gustav LeBon published a book describing what a nuclear fission reaction would be like, estimating it would be equivalent to the energy released by 1,340,000 barrels of gun powder. I am told that, years later, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to LeBon’s daughter stating that Dr. LeBon, physician turned physicist, was truly the father of nuclear physics. Though generally unheralded, LeBon’s position as a nuclear pioneer can easily be verified simply by going to one of our better stocked public libraries and checking out his book, The Evolution of Matter.

    At this point the reader may well ask what my concern is with such obscure individual research. The reader may also question my interest in scientific experiments whose results do not behave in accord with accepted scientific dogma. My answer is that I am a scientist and the son of a scientist, and I desire to see facts published as they really are.

    INTRODUCTION TO THE 5th EDITION REVISED.

    In order to set the record straight I am offering the following affidavit:

    Sworn Affidavit

    I, John E. Moray, being of sound mind, at the age of 82, do hereby make the following declaration of my own free will and swear under oath that it is true:

    To the best of my knowledge, I am the only living person to have witnessed the Radiant Energy device actually working. I grew up as a boy being allowed to witness my father work on his Radiant Energy device. On numerous occasions I saw the lights light, the motor run, and the heating units operate.

    My father always worked at night as the sun’s rays were too strong for his detector. When I had been a good boy, my reward was to go to the basement Laboratory and watch my father work. I remember that I was young enough that my pajamas had feet in them, all one piece. If you look on page 137 revised 5th edition you will see my father’s rolltop desk. To the right of that, a white table, then there is an old leather couch that I was allowed to sit on and watch my father work. On this particular night, dad was installing relays to protect the detector from burning out when the current of the surges got too high. Much to his surprise he found that the system reacted to where he was standing. As he walked away from the units, you could hear the relays trip and the unit would turn off. When he came back to his Radiant Energy unit, the relays turned on turning the unit on. He tried it a second time walking away from the unit. The unit turned off. He began to get excited because the Radiant Energy unit was sensitive to his body’s presence. This time he backed away from the unit, counting the steps and the unit turned off. He took a couple more steps and the rascal I was, I put my foot toward the unit and tripped it so that it came back on. At that point he became very excited calling my mother to come and see what he had discovered. When she got there, father told her, The unit not only senses my body presence, but it senses the distance I am from it. So he proceeded to show my mother what he did. I thought, I will do it one more time. He backed away, the unit turned off. I put my foot out and the unit turned on. This time my mother caught me and said to my father, Oh Eugene is putting his foot out. That is why it turned on as you backed away. So off to bed I went losing my visiting privileges for a number of days.

    I was a witness to the experiment my father made in 1944 when the Radiant Energy unit was over the never summer range of the Rocky Mountains on the great divide. We stopped over night in Greeley, Colorado, to meet with a Dr. C. R. Benzel, and then proceeded to go to a park in Denver where we set up the device in the park. Here Dr. Benzel had invited a number of people to witness my father’s experiments. Afterward, Dr. Spears, a founder of the Spears Chiropractic Hospital, invited us to his home. The end results turned out that Dr. Spears said, You leave your device with me and we will contact you if we like it. I ask you, would any inventor with limited resources just leave a new discovery with someone? Of course my father said no and we returned home.

    I have seen the Radiant Energy device work under many conditions and it will be a shame if it is lost; but I will not give it away.

    I John E. Moray, being first duly sworn and disposed, and say that I have read the foregoing statement and it is true and I did witness these experiments.

    Signed this 14th day of April, 2011 by John E. Moray.

    Subscribed and sworn before me this April 14, 2011, Sylvia W. Mucha.

    In this book I have gone into the historical background to interpret T. Henry Moray’s feelings. In writing his history I have taken the liberty to give some of my own opinions, since I lived through many of these events and I am encircled with emotions. T. Henry Moray’s work you can say is unfinished, as it is. But it can stand the strain of criticism in that it is well documented. He has left his notes having trained myself to carry on his work.

    Throughout the history of this device, progress has been slow and at some point stopped by outside interests. However, in spite of all obstacles we have crawled slowly forward. We have no animosity toward any one. All is forgiven. The story has to be told the way it is.

    On my father’s death bed he said to me,

    I only wanted to finish it. If only I had been given a chance. No one worked half way with me.

    I am endeavoring to carry on my father’s dream. As An Impossible Dream I believe I can make it come true or maybe tell the world that it did exist—that our world can be better for that.

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    Dr. T. Henry Moray in Salt Lake City, Utah October, 1970

    FOREWORD

    Dr. Robert Bass PhD

    The Moray Radiant Energy device for tapping

    Fitzgerald/Tesla/Schumann resonances is revisited. Discovered in 1911–1926 by the late T. Henry Moray, this device produced 50,000 Watts of AC power using a 300-foot antenna. Unfortunately, this technology was not released due to patent rejections without proper investigation. We suggest that this device is physically capable of efficiently tapping solar-energy-maintained

    FitzGerald/Tesla/Schumann resonances in the earth-ionosphere cavity. A massive breakthrough in energy technology is possible if this device is to be re-investigated and rebuilt.

    Background

    On 8/6/2006, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steve Chu, a Nobel Laureate physicist then at UCB and Director of LBNI, had stated in his testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, Although there is currently no ‘magic bullet’ to solve the energy problem, we believe that utilization of the sun holds significant untapped promise for reducing the need of fossil fuels. The technology in mind was likely solar power via improved solar cell technology and possible artificial photosynthesis.

    However, solar energy maybe obtained Indirectly and ultra efficiently in a novel way via the resonant circuitry implementable via Moray Radiant Energy device.

    The Radiant Energy device contained a primitive version of the transistor, Moray was unjustly denied a Patent by the USPTO on his germanium triode, on the fallacious grounds that a cold cathode is physically impossible! Yet, ironically, when the Transistor was announced by Bell Labs in 1947, the words germanium and two gold strips were used!

    Witnesses to the Moray Radiant Energy device

    The late Dr. Harvey Fletcher is an important and credible witness to the Moray Radiant Energy device. He was President of the American Physical Society (APS) and a member of the National Academy of Science (NAS). In the opinion of many, he should have shared the Nobel Prize awarded to his teacher Millikan after Fletcher conceived, and with his own hands performed the celebrated Oil Drop Experiment, which first measured the charge on an electron.

    Fletcher was also the Father of Stereophonic Sound and long-time Director of Research at the Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey.

    When Fletcher was around ninety-five years of age (approximately in 1980), Fletcher told BYU Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Robert W. Bass, face-to-face, that he had never been able to figure out how Moray had managed to light up a bank of thirty-six separate 100-Watt electric light bulbs, a waffle iron, and a small motor using nothing more than a 300-foot antenna and a ground, connection between an electric circuit or equipment and the earth; and an electrical circuit-containing wooden box, of a size less than one cubic foot, and weighing less than 60 pounds. The 5,000 Watts of AC power eventually increased to 50,000 Watts, usually persisted for about two weeks before something in the circuit box burned out. The witnesses were allowed to choose an arbitrary spot in the desert and drove Moray and his apparatus to places 25 and even 50 miles from the nearest power line, so that it could not possibly have been induction from any known power source. While Moray stood aside, the witnesses were allowed to take apart and reassemble everything in the box, except for one small spherical component, smaller than a ping-pong ball, called a Moray Radiant Energy device, which Moray concealed in his vest pocket and later held hidden in his clenched fist when he inserted it into the box.

    Fletcher, the most famous scientist in his native Utah, to which he frequently returned, spent literally decades trying unsuccessfully to persuade Moray to trust the Bell Labs enough to travel to New Jersey and disclose his secret. Eventually Fletcher, self-evidently inspired by Moray’s unjustly rejected Patent Applications for a germanium triode based upon the USPTO’s mistaken position that a cold cathode is physically impossible, started the solid-state physics R&D project at Bell Labs, which led in 1947 to the announcement of the Transistor and a Nobel Prize for two of Fletcher’s subordinates. This historical fact gives strong credibility to the scientific merit of Dr. Moray’s repeated demonstrations.

    The operational secrets and some of the practical aspects of how the Moray Radiant Energy device works are still alive with his eighty-two-year-old surviving son, John Moray, who has told Bass that he knows his late Father’s detailed several-year R&D plan for rendering the Moray Radiant Energy device more reliable, and so Patentable. John Moray told Bass, "I am not a philanthropist! and that his father’s dying wish and last words were: Don’t give it away!"

    CHAPTER 1

    EARLY YEARS

    Enough energy is coming to the earth to light over 1.5 million (1,693,600) 100-watt lamps for every human being on the earth today. No fuel of any kind need be taken as a dead load since this energy can be picked-up" directly by ocean liners, railroads, airplanes, automobiles, or any form of transportation. Heat, light, and power can be made available for use in all kinds of buildings and for all kinds of machinery. An example would be to pump water onto the desert lands, the power source being only a fraction of the weight of any steam plant or any kind of engine in use today, and all this at a fraction of the current cost.

    A wild dream? No! It’s a proven practical reality, as hundreds of people know who have witnessed the Moray Radiant Energy invention—powered from the cosmos. So stated Thomas Henry Moray’s original Sea of Energy in which the Earth Floats.

    In order to understand the development of Radiant Energy, one must understand what took place in Dr. Moray’s life. By looking at the background of the Moray family and of the family of his mother, Petronella Larson, one can understand why Dr. Moray was in a sense a recluse and refused in some instances to discuss his invention with individuals who might otherwise have given him great credit.

    Henry Moray was the product of emigrants, a Swedish mother and Irish father. Petronella Larson came from Sweden during a period when superstition was very great and under circumstances that required her to sacrifice greatly in order to immigrate from Sweden through Pennsylvania to Salt Lake City. She married James Cain Moray, who had been born in Ireland to a family living in hiding because its members had been condemned since the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Scottish-English wars. This marriage was filled with disaster. Of seven children, only two survived to grow to maturity—Henry Moray and his sister, Nellie.

    A family fortune built by Henry’s father, James Cain Moray, was almost entirely lost after the father died, and individuals who supposedly could be trusted betrayed Henry’s mother. As a result, Henry’s mother wished him to follow a business career and encouraged him by offering to buy up businesses with what little money was left. She insisted that he attend the old LDS College because it had a business course.

    Henry Moray’s interests leaned toward electronics and electrical engineering rather than business. His work was confined to whatever he could scrounge up himself as his mother thought his interests a waste of time. He often would go to the garbage dump to find pieces of wire, scraps of tape, and material he wanted to work with in the basement. At one time his uncle, John Moray, offered to put up money for the young man’s experimenting, but Henry’s mother became too upset.

    At age fifteen he obtained a job as an electrician, wiring houses. It would seem that a large number of the houses being wired at the time happened to be houses of prostitution. I heard him mention on many occasions that the girls always treated him with great respect and the madame made them behave themselves when he was there working. He felt particularly sorry for one of the girls and tried to show her the error of her ways. In later years, subsequent to his mission for the L. D. S. Church, he visited a business acquaintance and was pleasantly surprised to find that the girl was now married to the businessman.

    His thoughts were continually drawn to an idea pounding in his brain and looking for expression. In a brief history of the Radiant Energy device, he wrote:

    Although the accepted scientific ideas of the day seemed to point to the impossibility of what I was trying to do, there was never a time when, within my mind, anything but ultimate success was assured. Even when only enough energy was obtained to make a slight click in a telephone receiver, I did not doubt the soundness of the idea upon which I was working.

    In 1910 or 1911 he enrolled in a correspondence course in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

    In July 1911, Petronella Larson bought for her son what they thought was the controlling interest in what was then known as the Independent Electric Company. They bought the company on the basis of a financial statement furnished to them by certain prominent individuals in Salt Lake, depending entirely on the integrity of these individuals for the accuracy of the reports. It turned out that the inventory and accounts receivable had been falsified and that most of the accounts receivable had been outlawed because no attempt to collect them had been made in a reasonable amount of time to keep them alive.

    Henry went to work for the company, became secretary and a member of the board of directors, and became very friendly with the president, a man by the name of Holly, the biggest owner of the company besides Henry. Holly immediately understood that Henry had been taken advantage of. Together they got rid of the incumbent manager and attempted to salvage what they could of the company. It was three weeks before either of them fully realized the extent of the misrepresentation. Much to Henry Moray’s surprise, he had bought only an interest in the inventory and the sales and had no control over management. The only thing correct was bills payable. Even though Holly attempted to salvage the company (after Henry Moray was called on an L.D.S. Mission), Henry and his mother lost everything that they had put into the company. Only one of the individuals responsible ever tried to explain his own actions, and then he simply said that if he had known to whom he had sold the company, he would not have done so. Because this individual himself had lost so much money on the company, he thought he was justified in making the deal.

    Years later, R.L. Judd, an attorney and friend from Henry’s LDS College days, took up the case and tried to straighten it out. But because of political pressure, Judd finally advised Henry that he should withdraw his legal action. Henry felt he could not fight the responsible individuals alone. No other attorney in Salt Lake would take the case, so he abandoned any effort to obtain retribution for the financial loss he had suffered.

    In 1912 he was called to go on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and under a visitor’s visa was allowed to enter Sweden during the Exhibition of 1912 in Stockholm. With permission of his mission president, he attended the University of Upsalla for short periods of time, taking courses by examination. He mentioned many times that he feared he would be caught by a certain Lutheran pastor and discovered to be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This Pastor Aslive had become an arch rival since Henry Moray had succeeded in embarrassing him in several debates. The pastor, therefore, became enraged any time he and Henry Moray chanced to meet. Since Upsalla was a state school, Henry was forced to attend under the name of James Cain Larson, assuming his mother’s maiden name and using the address of his mother’s half-sister, Fru Cecelia Nelson (c/o Andrus Solomon Larson, Perstorp, Skone).

    In his notebook, dated November 1, 1913, Henry included a memo that he had obtained material from a railroad car at Abisco, Sweden, the previous summer and material from the side of a hill. He made electric tests of these materials, taking them home to try each as a detector for his energy machine. Tests indicated that this soft, white stone-like substance might make a good valve-like detector.** Some excerpts from the notebook follow:

    "November 13, 1913, time early this morning to test the stone again. Hard to buy wire and stuff to make coils. Used cardboard tube to work on. Batteries of no help in priming. Got hard rubber Widstens from Wilsons and bought some silk and pure wool cloth to use as static generator. Got some red sealing wax and tried to make vacuum tube, but no luck. Silver wire used on stone makes a rectifier.

    "January 21, 1914, been alone a few days down at south end of Gefle Branch where I came to study. Took my gadget with me when I left Gefle Sunday evening, January 19. Guess time will not permit me to do much with gadget. Yet will do all I can. I know it will work.

    Tuesday, May 5, 1914, at south end, had fun at class today. (Ed: referring to the University of Upsalla.) Swedes make fun of my Skone Swedish, but I do them in a way they cannot understand English. Got four hours in the shop and lab, with a friend, without making explanation. He asked ‘what that dumb radio set was, can’t get anywhere much hearing that device.’ Soon will be home, in about four months.

    Before leaving Sweden, July 31, 1914, he had succeeded in completing his doctoral thesis, which advanced the idea that there was energy throughout space. It is unfortunate this writing is not available to us. His oral examinations were completed, although no commencement ceremony or certificate of graduation was issued at that time. Through the years he kept abreast of the latest developments in science through diversified reading. He built up a personal scientific library of extensive proportions.

    On November 28, 1917 (fig. 4), he married Ella Ryser. They had five children: Henry, Jr., Ella Evelyn, Sylvia, John Eugene, and Richard Ryser.

    At the end of World War I it was difficult to get engineering jobs. Moray was forced to work as a fireman on one of the railroads. Later he was able to obtain work as a civil engineer for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. However, he detested working as a civil engineer. The drawing (fig. 5), which he made, illustrates how he felt. The engineers working on both sides of him smoked cigars. He used to say he knew that if he had not quit the job, he would have ended up smoking a pipe simply for self-defense.

    Still later he held various other positions, serving as an electrical engineer and designer for the Phoenix Construction Company (a sub-contractor for the Utah Power and Light Company), an assistant chief electrical engineer for the Aarastad Construction Company, and an assistant division electrical engineer for the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company.

    During this time, he designed the electrical layouts for many large buildings in Salt Lake City and throughout the West. He was the design engineer for what was known as Terminal, located west of Salt Lake City, which was the largest oil-cooled electrical switch yard in the world. He was a certified member of the American Association of Engineers (fig. 6) and secretary of the Independent Electric Company.

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    Fig. 3

    Memo in newspaper, saved by Dr. Moray

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    Fig. 4

    Nellie Moray Todd, top left, Chester M. Todd, back center, Petronella Larson, top right, James D. Todd, front left, and Ella Ryser Moray, front right.

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    Fig. 5

    Dr. T. Henry Moray’s concept of Civil Engineering

    On December 21, 1920, he was injured in an accident while examining a Utah Power & Light Company substation to determine the levels of inductive interference to telephone circuits. During this period the first attempts were made to discredit him. To obtain some compensation for both the labor time lost and the injury to his eyes, he was forced to take his case against the company all the way to the Utah Supreme Court. The transcript of the case reveals that the company had examined his background and everything about him.

    He often mentioned that this accident may have been a blessing in disguise. His limited ability to see detailed work forced him from the drawing table into research and led him back into Radiant Energy. From time to time arguments were given that he had lost up to 75 percent of his vision. It is interesting to note that in the early 1970s, a few years before he died, an optometrist commented on the large number of burned spots of the retina of his eye. It was reported a few years ago that the Mountain Bell System denied that Henry had ever performed the work that resulted in his injury or that he had ever been an employee in their system. However, the Utah Supreme Court record exists today. A copy of the record is held in our files, as is his notebook on inductive interference.

    The period that followed 1921 included some rather lean years for Henry Moray. He tried to expand into various other fields in order to occupy himself within the limitations of his eyesight. Without going into detail, it can be said that his financial woes multiplied until he was barely able to retain his home and that of his mother.

    He obtained a certificate as a poultry judge and in September 1923 he

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