Airship Patent drawing
1913-1914


"Self-propelling" motors, including "hand-lift"
1913-1914


Various "Self-propelling" motors
1913-1914

BIOGRAPHY

Little is known about L.C. Spooner other than what was found in a recycled fabric-sample scrapbook. Dating from 1911-1934, the book is filled with proposed patents for his "practical" designs. Spooner sought to apply the principles of perpetual motion and self-propulsion to an immense range of common utilitarian objects, although just how his "self-propelled trash can," "self-propelling wheel-barrow," and "self-propelled finger-lifter" were intended to function remains open to conjecture. Unfortunately, the perpetual-power sources of these various devices continue to resist modern understanding, and the secrets of his self-propulsion schemes seem to have disappeared with the man himself. References in the scrapbook suggest that Spooner may have lived in or around the Illinois towns of Decatur, Pal-myra, and Blue Moon, but no other biographical details are yet known.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.