Hans August Larsen

Hans August Larsen (August 16, 1864 - October 8, 1943) was a Danish eccentric, resident in Manitoba and Minnesota during the early twentieth-century, self-described as a spiritualist, hypnotist, and mind-reader (Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder). While in North America, Larsen claimed to have devised a method of perpetual motion as well as a submarine torpedo that he claimed "would make the nation that purchased it master of the world." In Danish sources, he was sometimes known as Himmelmesteren fra Sandby ("The Master of Heaven from Sandby") for his himmelmaskiner, mechanical devices that depict the solar system and movements of the planets.

1896-1910 (Balsam Bay, Manitoba)

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Perpetual Motion

 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."
 * "Warren, the 23 July 1911, Inventor of Perpetual Motion, Proffesser H. August Larson. I recivet a return from the Patent Office it sais we have recivet yours Plans thaken on Oath, the 8 July 1911 bot this Office can not belive it can work without a working model is send to this office. if it works as you describe it, Mr. Larson, it seatle and ends alle Arguments. I sent my drowing after a Deriction from a Boog sen to me from the U. S. Patent Office. it sais do not sen model first tim. you at first sen a drowing and if the Office ask you after to sen a model yo ucan do so also. I, Proff. Larson, will make a cuccesful working model in the first tim of August mont and show it in Warren for Poplick and on Oath as a crowning cuccess and thad is the last of it. &mdash; Spirritualist & Hipnotist & Minwreeder H. A Larson, of Danmark."

Later Years (1920-1943)
Larsen was deported from the United States in 1920, and returned to Denmark, being placed in the care of the state, first at a group home at Sandby, Lolland, and later at Sakskøbing, Lolland, where he resided until his passing in 1943.

Selected Compositions

 * GOD AND DEVIL COMES TO WAR 1914; quadrille, words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S.; violin with text. [11114 c 1 c. June 3, 1916; E 388410; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/732/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22
 * KING OF OCEAN: WAR 1914, words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S.; violin with text. [11490 c. 1 c. June 3, 1916; E 388411; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/754/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22
 * SPIRITUALIST KING; words and music by H. A. Larson, of U.S. [12285, c. 1 c. June 3, 1916; 388414; Hans August Larson, Aspelin, Minn. https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig112libr/page/800/mode/2up?q=%22Hans+August+Larson%22