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Updated: June 29, 2025
Each of the two hearers repeated this simple demonstration to at least a dozen acquaintances, who repeated it to dozens of others; and after that John Henry Overholt could not raise another dollar to complete the Air-Motor. Mr.
"Say, father, haven't you anything you can sell to get some more money for the Motor?" John Henry shook his weary head and smiled sadly. "Nothing that would bring nearly enough to pay for the casting," he answered. "Don't worry about it, boy. Leave that to me I'm used to it. Go to bed and sleep, and you'll feel like an Air-Motor yourself in the morning!"
When the idea of the Air-Motor had occurred to him he had gone into a machine-shop and had spent nearly two years in learning the use of fine tools. Then he had bought what he needed out of the money invested in his idea, and had gone to work himself, sending models of such castings as he required to different parts of the United States, that the pieces might be made independently.
He resolved his feelings into factors and simplified the form of each; and this little mathematical operation showed that he was miserable for three reasons. The first was that there was no money for the tangent balance of the Air-Motor, which was the final part, on which he had spent months of hard work and a hundred more than half sleepless nights.
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