Garabed Giragossian



Garabed T. K. Giragossian (January 6, 1860 - August 15, 1944) was an Armenian-American inventor who came to some infamy beginning in 1917 over his attempts to receive recognition and protection from the U.S. Government for his Garabed fly-wheel generator, which he claimed was, in effect, a "free energy" device. The Congress went as far as to pass "Public Resolution 21" ("House Joint Resolution 174") in 1918, making promises for Giragossian's surety and remuneration if he were able to "demonstrate the practicability of his discovery or invention" to a commission of scientists that Giragossian would appoint, with the final approval of the Secretary of the Interior,[P] an act which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson; however, the committee ultimately found the principles of the device were not practical and would not produce the "free energy" promised. In spite of this setback, Giragossian was undissuaded and continued to petition the government on the issue, continuing until the end of his life to write letters and seek support for his invention.

U.S. Government Documentation

 * : https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch13.pdf, https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch14.pdf
 * &mdash; [includes letters from Giragossian, in which he addresses Harry E. Perrigo's "electrical box", and separate claims that his invention is stolen from others, the first attributed to Alexander Massey Wilson (though it is L. R. Banks of Automatic Power Company, Cincinnati, who makes the claim in the article he cites), and the second to Elbert C. Kilpatrick of San Francisco.]
 * &mdash; [includes letters from Giragossian, in which he addresses Harry E. Perrigo's "electrical box", and separate claims that his invention is stolen from others, the first attributed to Alexander Massey Wilson (though it is L. R. Banks of Automatic Power Company, Cincinnati, who makes the claim in the article he cites), and the second to Elbert C. Kilpatrick of San Francisco.]