Word: giragossian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest perpetual-motion men of recent years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress...
When the machine was finally produced (1924), it was a heavy cast-iron flywheel to which a one-quarter horsepower electric motor was clutched. After Mr. Giragossian ran the little motor two weeks, the flywheel turned so fast that a braking force of 150 horsepower was necessary to stop it. The 150 h. p. merely represented the accumulated energy of one-quarter horsepower applied over a two-week period. When it was discovered that Mr. Giragossian had made use of a "time-lever," he was told to get out of the halls of Congress until he could prove that...
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