- Harry Perrigo
In the 1910s and 1920s, Harry Perrigo of Kansas City, a graduate of
MIT , claimed development of a free energy device.Perrigo claimed the
energy source was "from thin air" or from etherwave s. He demonstrated the device before the U.S. Congress onDecember 15 ,1917 . Perrigo had a pending application (filedDecember 31 ,1925 ; Serial Number 78,719) for the "Improvement in Method and Apparatus for Accumulating and Transforming EtherElectric Energy ".Investigators reported that his device in fact contained a hidden battery.
References
* [http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/list.cfm?list=sub&SubjectareaID=77176 Harry E. Perrigo] , a vertical file at the [http://www.kclibrary.org/ Kansas City Public Library] in
Kansas City, MO , described as follows: "Photos, illustrations, and information on Harry Perrigo, a local inventor of a "free energy" device in the 1910s-1920s turning out to be a hoax. Energy source of "invention" supposedly "from thin air" or from "ether waves" but in actually from a hidden battery."
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