Perpetual Motion

Self-Motive Power, also known as Perpetual Motion.

Would-Be Inventors of Self-Motive Power

 * de Honecort, Wilars
 * Zimara, Mark Antony
 * Sinclair, George
 * Sommerset, Edward
 * Capra, A.
 * Orffyreus, Jean-Ernest Eli-Bessler
 * Ferguson, James
 * Haywood, John
 * Varley, Richard
 * Redheffer, Charles
 * Spence, John
 * Mackintosh, F. S.
 * Vallance, Dixon
 * Congreve, William
 * Banning, Elijah T.
 * Taylor, William
 * Boon, Sanford (Colonel Boon)
 * Hendrickson, James G.
 * Hosmer, Harriett
 * Cheney, Leonard


 * Wickersham, Jr., Horace
 * Willis, E. P.
 * Birch, John (F Street Hermit)
 * Keely, John Worrell
 * Allen, George F.
 * Ellsworth, J. D.
 * Schumacher, Heinrich
 * Oaks, George (Hermit of Latonia)
 * Gamgee, John
 * Garrot, James
 * Furman, George H.
 * Hainly, Frank
 * Schirrmeister, Charles
 * Cook, D. M.
 * Orendorff, John
 * Paillet, Joseph
 * Schwartz, Zachariah
 * Withers, John E.
 * Parsons, Jehu (Hermit of Irvington)
 * Stanley, Christopher
 * McNabb, Bill
 * Jones, R. J.
 * Breitenmoser, J.
 * Snowden, John
 * Mattox, P. C.
 * Dibble, H. D.
 * Cunningham, W. J.
 * Conday, Joseph
 * Burrows, J. H.
 * Heine, Charles
 * Haile, J. T.
 * Harris, Bijah
 * Finglass, Benjamin
 * von Holtschuherr, Otto
 * Aldrich, J. M.
 * Henry, E.
 * Whitmore, Reuben A. (Catoctin Hermit)
 * Owens, W. G.
 * Ericson, Morton F.
 * Gladish, W. J.
 * Kaller, J. G.
 * Fall, Samuel P. (Hermit of East Lebanon)
 * Mahoney, Tim
 * Tripler, Charles
 * Pope, Anderson
 * Howard, Charles (Hermit of Okefenokee Swamp)
 * Brown, James
 * Ormsby, Joseph H.
 * Rose, Herbert
 * Otto, William (Perpetual Motion Otto)
 * Dean, Harry Burness
 * Shannon, Jere
 * Kelley, Patrick
 * Doyle, William H.
 * Herford, William
 * Grimes, J. S.
 * Barrett, Harry
 * DeWitt, Charles N.
 * Elliott, Peter O.
 * Zeigler, D. G.
 * Place, James E.
 * Bunch, John W.
 * Russell, E. F.
 * Pegram, George
 * Ferry, James
 * Sahlenberg, Carl August
 * Glenn, T. L.
 * Sweet, C. N.
 * Uniapon, David
 * Knoerl, John
 * Webber, Charles J.
 * Scott, J. O.
 * Tuch, Christian Carl
 * McMahon, Frank
 * Saunders, W. L.
 * Perrigo, Harry E.
 * Markwood, Alfred Taylor
 * Kirk, John R.
 * Stritzen, John
 * Grossman, Karl


 * Larson, Hans August
 * Hodges, Noel
 * Gernand, Andrew
 * Hitchcock, Stanley J.
 * Herr, Chris F.
 * Raymond, H. B.
 * Ackerland, Erick
 * Banks, L. R.
 * Blades, Joe D.
 * Blanchette, Elie
 * Freer, Charles H.
 * Florio, Virginio
 * Kennedy, James W.
 * Bevins, George
 * Laney, James
 * Fletcher, Ambrose
 * Raes, Joseph
 * Ulram, Richard
 * Kilpatrick, Elbert C.
 * Giragossian, Garabed T. K.
 * Garbe, W. F.
 * Storm, Nathan
 * Davis, Riley
 * Wolfe, Charles J.
 * Lingelbach, Arthur