Mr. Braschuk's Marvellous Motor

By Leanne Jones

Mr. Braschuk lived with his wife in a small house on Sixth Avenue in Port Alberni, British Columbia. He invented a marvellous motor that ran perpetually on air. Everyone said it couldn’t be done, but there it was, running in his workshop where children from the neighbourhood gathered to watch with interest.
Mr. Braschuk asked the local newspaper if they would write an article. The reporters promised they would at first but then began to doubt the motor’s importance and broke their promise. However they were persuaded by the children who told them what a wonderful motor it was and also how important it is to keep a promise. The children always believed in Mr. Braschuk and his motor. Children intuitively realize things of value that excite their curiosity.
Mr. Braschuk was invited to a science symposium in Washington to discuss his motor. He met with other interested people as well. Mrs. Braschuk was always supportive and so they lived a long and happy life.
Mr. Braschuk also talked to the children about his garden which was just as orderly as his workshop. Sometimes Mrs. Braschuk invited the children to the house to taste her rhubarb pie.
After the children were grown and went on to discover interesting ideas of their own, they had a reunion to share what they had been doing. It was there they remembered what Mr. Braschuk had said to them. “If you could make something the world has never heard of, what would it be?”

• Language: English
• Publisher: AgioPublishing
• Release date: Jul 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990335105

Leanne Jones

Private investigator Leanne Jones operates the Victoria, BC-based firm, Secrets Investigations. Previously she wrote children's books, instructed creative writing at University of Victoria, taught elementary school, and served as a governess in Japan. She is a proud mother and grandmother. Leanne researched and wrote the story for the acclaimed iPad app, Cool to be Clever: Edson Hendricks & the invention of the design for the Internet. Leanne also composed and performed the app's musical score.

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Mr. Braschuk’s Marvellous Motor

by Leanne Jones

illustrated by Andrew A. Currie

Dedicated to all inventors everywhere!

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The development of the human race is virtually dependent on invention. It is the most important product of a creative brain.

— Nikola Tesla

What would you think of a motor that could run totally on air? Well, that is exactly what Mr. Nicholas Braschuk invented and this is his story.

Mr. and Mrs. Braschuk lived in Port Alberni, a small town in a beautiful, forested valley on Vancouver Island on Canada’s west coast. The Braschuks owned a small well-built house on Sixth Avenue where they were happily retired with a large garden out back alongside Braschuk’s workshop that was all set to receive his new motor. He had been designing it for a long time and it was being made to order at a local machine shop. His motor project was top secret because as far as Braschuk knew it was original.

After he picked the