Joseph Wesley Newman

Free Energy-His Gift to Humanity

De: David Rountree

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What if one man had discovered the secret to unlimited, clean energy—only to spend his life fighting to prove it? This is the astonishing true story of Joseph Wesley Newman, a self-taught Mississippi inventor who claimed he had built a machine that could change the world. To his supporters, he was a visionary genius. To scientists and government officials, he was a misguided dreamer—or worse, a fraud. His long crusade to win recognition became one of the strangest sagas in American science and invention.
Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1936, Joseph Newman grew up restless, ambitious, and haunted by the drowning of his older brother. He called himself “an ole country boy,” but his mind was fixed on big questions: What was energy? Could humanity ever escape its dependence on oil and coal?
After serving in the Air Force in Puerto Rico, Newman claimed he experienced a moral awakening when he saw the extremes of wealth and poverty. He made a vow to dedicate his life to ending injustice through invention. That promise became his lifelong obsession.
After fourteen years of tinkering, he revealed his creation: the Energy Machine. A whirring, buzzing contraption of magnets, copper coils, and batteries, it looked homemade but promised the impossible. Newman claimed it produced more energy than it consumed—not perpetual motion, he insisted, but a smarter application of Einstein’s E = mc². To Newman, his discovery would save the world. To scientists, it defied the laws of physics.
In 1980, Newman applied for a U.S. patent on his invention. The Patent and Trademark Office promptly rejected it, calling it a perpetual motion machine. To them, his claims were physically impossible. He accused examiners of conspiracy, claiming oil companies and entrenched scientists were terrified of his discovery. Along the way, he gathered affidavits from over thirty engineers, physicists, and observers who swore the machine worked.
By the mid-1980s, Newman’s crusade had become a national spectacle. He held flashy demonstrations at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans and even rented the Louisiana Superdome, where he promised his invention would change humanity’s future.
In 1986, he took his case to America’s living rooms when Johnny Carson welcomed him on The Tonight Show. Newman, armed with magnets and gyroscopes, explained his theories with homespun charm. Carson remained skeptical but respectful. The appearance generated one of the largest viewer responses in the show’s history.
Despite the spectacle, the U.S. courts ordered Newman’s machine tested by the National Bureau of Standards. The results were damning: under every condition, the Energy Machine consumed more energy than it produced. Newman was furious. He accused the Bureau of incompetence, sabotage, and deliberate suppression.
Joseph Newman was more than his invention. He was a bundle of contradictions: charismatic and paranoid, brilliant and reckless, capable of inspiring fierce devotion and bitter opposition. He named his son “Gyromas” after the gyroscopic particles he believed powered the universe. He promised his followers world peace and prosperity, even as he faced personal losses, lawsuits, and betrayals.
Joseph Wesley Newman isn’t just a biography of a controversial inventor—it’s a story about genius, obsession, and the razor-thin line between vision and delusion. It explores the timeless struggle between dreamers who want to change the world and the systems designed to protect us from impossible promises.