Swan Ostewig
From Kook Science
Sven "Swan" Ostewig (August 30, 1884 - June 27, 1980) was a American auto mechanic of Norwegian-descent and resident at Lee, Illinois, who was claimed in July 1913 newspaper reports to have, along with Otto Bloomberg, a fellow mechanic, and Kinnie A. Ostewig (November 2, 1877 - January 22, 1957), to have devised an air-intake, wheel-based perpetual motion machine. The Ostewig-Bloomberg machine seems to have been subsequently abandoned, while Ostewig, for his part, went on to run a garage and machine shop, and entered an Apperson Jackrabbit in the Indianapolis 500 race of 1916.[1]
Press Coverage
- "IS PERPETUAL MOTION SOLVED? These Young Men, Residents of Lee, Are Sure They Have Solved The Century-Old Problem By Utilizing Draft Of Chimney", True Republican (Sycamore, Illinois): 1, 16 July 1913, https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=STR19130716.2.4 — this brief article contains a summary of a longer piece attributed to the Chicago Record-Herald of 13 July 1913.
References
- ↑ Swam and the Indy 300, rick_oleson.tripod.com, http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-42.html