Arthur C. Lingelbach

Arthur Chester Lingelbach was an American "industrial enterprise promoter" who briefly attained notoriety over his Super Utilities, Inc. stock company, through which he claimed he was developing a therapeutic medical device called the "Super-U-Wave," as well as a perpetual-motion refrigerator, a new form of television, and a high-speed airplane. Lingelbach's enterprise came to the attention of New York prosecutors during 1936 in part due to his method of soliciting investors: they were sent by medium Alma Nelson, who purported to channel Suda, "Son of Solitude of the Lost Isle of Atlantis," the voice claiming that Lingelbach was the reincarnation of the brother of the engineer who built the Pyramids. While at trial over an injunction to ban sales of company stock, Lingelbach boasted that he had worked alongside Thomas Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Henry Ford, Lee de Forest, and Luther Burbank, making extraordinary claims regarding his accomplishments and scientific background; neither these claims, nor a signed petition by still convinced investors,[T] seem to have convinced the court as to the legitimacy of the offering, as the company was ultimately dissolved.