Frank Hazzard

Franklin Hazzard was an American inventor who was reported to have designed a perpetual motion machine, sometimes referred to as the Hazzard Motor, in early 1880s while resident in Smith county, Kansas. The Hazzard Self Propelling Machine Company was incorporated in 1881 by D. E. Kelley, W. D. Jenkins, and others, selling stock to local Kansans for a brief time, for the ostensible purpose of manufacturing the machine, though quickly went bust once Hazzard failed to secure a patent for his invention and subsequently disappeared.[GH]