Originally Posted By: Garak
I recall reading an article some time back how the US Patent Office will no longer issue patents for perpetual motion machines unless a working prototype is presented to them. That certainly indicates they granted patents to such things before without them actually being built, much less working.
Your right....but Howard Johnson did it?
I believe it can and did happen, but then again, I think wasp spray (the foamie type) is a good self defense weapon...LOL
Howard Johnson Patents
[KEY] U.S. patent number 4,151,431 "Permanent magnet motor" (April 24, 1979)
U.S. patent number 4,877,983 "Magnetic force generating method and apparatus" (Oct. 31, 1989)
U.S. patent number 5,402,021 "Magnetic propulsion system" (March 28, 1995)
Related Patents
U.S. patent number 4,215,330 "Permanent magnet propulsion system" (July 29, 1980) Hartman; Emil T. [related]
Related Work:
Theoretical Self-sustaining Permanent Magnet Motor - anonymous inventor presents design with device sketches.
Inventions > Entirely New Kind Of Generator - Russian inventor, Vladimir Matveev, employs a concept called magnetic conductivity modulation; different from an invention by Howard Johnson. (Rense.com Jan 26, 2003) (source: UPI, Washington Times, Jan. 26, 2003)
FE Historic Reprint > The Symmetrical Permanent Magnet Motor by Tom Bearden
Discusses standard physics models for magnet interaction in a rotor-stator configuration. Proposes model in which "vacuum" energy contributes