Harry Perrigo

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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 ether waves. He demonstrated the device before the U.S. Congress on December 15, 1917. Perrigo had a pending application (filed December 31, 1925; Serial Number 78,719) for the "Improvement in Method and Apparatus for Accumulating and Transforming Ether Electric Energy".

Investigators reported that his device in fact contained a hidden motor.

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• Harry E. Perrigo, a vertical file at the 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."
• Harry E. Perrigo: Etheric Wave Accumulator, from Rex Research, the website of Robert Nelson in Jean, NV
• Harry Perrigo, a PDF document from Nu Energy Industries in Rumney, NH, which says it is "edicated to the generation, transformation,

production and practical utilization of new sources of energy"