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He also wrote a number of scientific books, including, Electricity, What is it? 1908; The Evolution of Atoms & Isotopes, 1922; The Soul of an Atom. The Physical Basis of Human Survival, 1932; The Economic Lathe, 1931 Model, 1932; Fearon, William Robert: The New Atomism, being a review of The Soul of an Atom, 1933; Natural Vibro-Massage, 1937. In 1910 he married Iole Hyla MacDonnell, the daughter of Hercules MacDonnell of Glen Lodge, Dundalk. The family settled in London in 1932 and Lole died in 1941. William Denham Verschoyle died in 1944 at 26 Riverview Gardens, Barnes, Middlesex. His will was dated 9th September 1943. An obituary for William Denham in the New York Times, 27th May 1944 states In 1929 Mr. Verschoyle applied for a patent on an invention he claimed would make possible construction of a machine capable of flying 600 miles an hour. The scientific theory behind it, he said, was largely in accord with modern mathematical theories of gravitation as propounded by Dr. Albert Einstein and the electronic theories of Sir J.J. Thomson. Mr. Verschoyle held that gravitation was similar to magnetism and therefore controllable by electricity. His machine would have been able to rise and descend vertically, without the use of wings, lighter-than-air devices or other recognised means. He was to have called his machine an aerometer but there is no record that it ever got beyond the experimental stage. |
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