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Dr. Elmer R. Gates (*1859 +1923) was an American scientist, inventor and psychologist. He created more than 200 useful patents. At the beginning of the 20th century he run a laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was the largest private non-commercial laboratory in the United States. Dr. Gates is being mentioned several times in Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”. He is on the list of 47 self-made millionaires in Napoleon Hill’s preface of “Think and Grow Rich” and in Chapter 11.
Among his numerous inventions were:
- the foam fire extinguisher
- a climate-controlling air conditioner
- an electronic music synthesizer
- an improved electric iron
- an electric tuning fork
- different devices to separate gold from sand
- “Box and Block”, an educational toy. (Its descendants can be found in numerous children’s rooms down to the present day. It’s the toy where you put blocks of different shapes into corresponding holes.)
- an improved electric loom
Elmer Gates believed that “scientific method is mental method” and he developed “Psychurgy”, an Art of Mind Using. He also was among the 500+ “Hill’s Men”. Napoleon Hill had interviewed and analyzed them to find a formula of getting rich. It is delineated in Hill’s books “The Law of Success in 16 Lessons” and “Think And Grow Rich”. In the latter Hill writes:
“In his laboratory, he had what he called his “personal communication room.” It was practically sound proof, and so arranged that all light could be shut out. It was equipped with a small table, on which he kept a pad of writing paper.
In front of the table, on the wall, was an electric pushbutton, which controlled the lights. When Dr. Gates desired to draw upon the forces available to him through his Creative Imagination, he would go into this room, seat himself at the table, shut off the lights, and CONCENTRATE upon the KNOWN factors of the invention on which he was working, remaining in that position until ideas began to “flash” into his mind in connection with the UNKNOWN factors of the invention.
On one occasion, ideas came through so fast that he was forced to write for almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing, and he examined his notes, he found they contained a minute description of principles which bad not a parallel among the known data of the scientific world.”
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