Harry E. Perrigo

Harry Edward Perrigo (October 4, 1881 - March 15, 1941) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a device he claimed accumulated and transformed "ether electric energy" from the atmosphere. Similarly to Garabed Giragossian and his "Garabed", Perrigo and his eponymous device were the subject of U.S. Congressional interest beginning in late 1917, though neither were successful in proving their claims or earning government funding for their work.



U.S. Government Documentation

 * H.J. Res. 203 &mdash; for the Purpose of Promoting Efficiency, for the Utilization of the Resources and Industries of the United States, for Lessening the Expenses of the War, and Restoring the Loss Caused by the War by Providing for the Employment of a Discovery or Invention Called the "Perrigo," Claiming to Make Possible the Utilization of Free Energy. (This motion seems to have been simply forwarded to the Patent Commissioner, unlike the similarly named motion of support for Giragossian, which was passed and signed into law.)
 * In Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Patent Appeal No. 2723, in re Harry E. Perrigo, Method and Apparatus for Accumulating and Transforming Ether Electric Energy; Brief for Commissioner of Patents. [1931] See: https://casetext.com/case/in-re-perrigo