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...Juan J. Tomadelli, inventor and owner of "bottled sunshine" (TIME, Mar. 10), whom the Attorney General of New York State sought to enjoin from selling capital stock in his scientifically-suspected, self-feeding lamp, was upheld by ex-Supreme Court Justice New-burger, who, as referee, dismissed the proceedings. The opinion held that, although two illuminating experts had declared (without examination) that Tomadelli's lamp violated well-known scientific principles, the burden of proof was on the plaintiff (the Attorney General) to show that the representations of the promoter were consciously false and made with intent to deceive...
...ever green credulity of the investing public is one of the most astonishing features of American business. Recently, New York State applied for an injunction against the Tomadelli Electronic Light Corporation, to restrain it from selling any more of its stock to the public. The company was formed to promote an alleged invention known as "Bottled Sunlight" (TIME, March 10, SCIENCE). Concretely, this was claimed to consist of a new sort of incandescent bulb which apparently did not need electric current to make it shine. When produced in court, however, sample bulbs had no sparkle in them whatsoever...
This, according to counsel for the defendants, meant little or nothing. "Mr. Tomadelli never claimed that he had perfected the lamp," he stated. "He had not. He was an inventor working on an invention. The public bought the stock in the hope that the invention would be made commercially success...
...Juan J. Tomadelli, of Buenos Aires, purporting to be an eminent electrical engineer, sold stock in his "Electronic Corporation" at $100 a share. He claimed to have invented, in his laboratory at Buenos Aires, a lamp which, by withdrawing energy from the air and bombarding a substance composed of sea salt, tin, copper, asphalt and paraffin, burned continuously for seven months, needed no recharging, and would have burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false...