People have been reporting machines that run without fuel, weights that change on a scale, and heat that no chemistry accounts for — since 1150. This is the record of those reports, and of how well each one was documented.
It takes no position on whether any effect is real. Every entry is graded on six ordered axes by EQO, an open standard that puts orthodox and heterodox cases in one vocabulary and forbids itself a credibility score — it assigns coordinates, never verdicts.
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Earliest known perpetual-wheel description (mercury-filled spokes); the deep-history root of S-SLF; Villard de Honnecourt's 13th-c. sketch continues the lineage.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P0T0Q0
Sketchbook wheel with hinged hammers, asserted to run of itself — the European entry of the overbalanced-wheel idea.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P1T0Q0
Epistola de magnete closes with a lodestone-driven wheel intended to turn perpetually — the root document of the magnet-motor lineage, seven centuries before Perendev.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P1T1Q0
Recurring reports of lamps found alight in opened ancient tombs (the Tulliola account among them); the medieval-to-early-modern free-energy claim par excellence, surviving only as secondary reports.
Class: Chemical · Optical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R2C0P2T0Q0
Notebook analyses working the torque balance and dismissing the seekers of perpetual motion — the earliest analysis-type resolution record in the corpus.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R5C2P3T4Q1
Windmill driving bellows that blow the windmill — the closed-loop archetype in its purest form.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P1T0Q0
Accepted-as-real phenomenon with open mechanism; candidate conventional theories (silicon combustion, microwave cavities) discussed, none settled.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R4C1P3T3Q1
Celebrated self-moving globe presented to James I; modern reading: barometric/thermal drive — Cox's clock avant la lettre, an apparent self-runner with a real energy source.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P3T3Q0
Recirculating water-screw mill grinding grain from its own outflow; endlessly reprinted ancestor of hydraulic self-runner claims.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P1T0Q0
Large weighted wheel reportedly shown before the king at the Tower of London; known through the inventor's Century of Inventions and court lore.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P2T0Q0
54-day sealed-room run, Kassel 1717, attested by officials; hidden-drive allegation by a maid.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C2P3T3Q0
Orthodox anchor: an apparent self-runner with a fully documented energy source (barometric pressure); the control case every S-SLF claim is measured against.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R5C3P3T4Q2
Baquet seances producing crises and cures; the claimed agent was a physical magnetic fluid.
Class: Biological · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P2T1Q0
Blinded trials at Passy attributing effects to imagination and imitation — the earliest C4 adversarial examination in this corpus.
Class: Biological · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C4P4T4Q1
British patent (1790) to John Haywood of Long Acre, Middlesex, draftsman and mechanic: a rotary wheel with a cranked centre, rollers running in circular grooves, and springs arranged to prevent reverse movement. The ratchet-like anti-reverse element is the tell -- it prevents the wheel from unwinding but supplies nothing to wind it. The catalogue entry gives no patent number, so the number is carried as unknown rather than guessed.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 3226 (1809) to William Pleasants the elder, of Abbey Street, Dublin, Bachelor of Arts, for his invented 'self mover, or machine which can keep itself in motion' -- the register's wording, and one of the few patent titles of the period that states the perpetual-motion claim outright rather than hiding it behind 'improvements in obtaining power'. The construction raises water through inclined pipes by the centrifugal force imparted by whirling the partly-filled vessel the pipes are set into, and the whirling is produced by that same water, in its descent, turning a wheel on the axle. The circuit is therefore closed on itself: the descent that drives the rotation is the only thing raising the water the descent consumes, so the machine is asked to pay for its own lift out of the lift's own proceeds. Dircks quotes the specification and dismisses it in one line -- 'This is the old story' -- which is itself evidence of how routine the type had already become by 1809. The register entry confirms the patentee as 'the elder', a distinction the compilation omits.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
Paid-admission perpetual wheel; a Philadelphia inspection already noticed gear wear running the wrong way.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C1P3T0Q0
Fulton traced an uneven running rhythm to a concealed catgut belt and an elderly man cranking in an upper room — the template hoax exposure, ninety years before Wood's prism.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C3P4T4Q0
British Patent No. 3861 (12th December 1814) to Henry Julius Winter, of Dover Street, Kent, confectioner -- the trade is the register's, and worth recording: the motive-power patents of the period were not the preserve of engineers. The invention places water-wheels in series so that the tail water of the first is carried immediately onto the head of the second, the tail of the second onto the third, 'and I do in this manner proceed by conveying the very same water from wheel to wheel, however numerous the set may be'. The patentee then infers 'that the sum total of the rotatory force in all the said wheels will be more than sufficient to raise' the water back to the top. The error is a clean one and worth stating precisely, because it recurs across the whole catalogue: the work available is fixed by the total fall, not by the number of wheels the fall is divided among. Adding wheels partitions the same head into smaller drops; it does not multiply the energy. Register title: 'method of giving effect to various operating processes'.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
A serial patentee rather than a single device, and the clearest case in the catalogue of a claim sustained across a career. The register carries five grants to Robert Copland, each titled as an improvement upon his own previous ones: No. 4364 (1819), of Liverpool, merchant, for a 'new or improved method or methods of gaining power by new or improved combinations of apparatus, applicable to various purposes'; No. 4749 (16th January 1823), then of Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, gentleman; No. 5452, of Wilmington Square, gentleman, granted for an unusual fifteen months; No. 7057, of Brunswick Crescent, Camberwell, Surrey, esquire; and No. 7216 (1830), of Courlands, Wandsworth Road, Surrey, esquire. Read in sequence the addresses and styles are their own document -- Liverpool merchant to Wandsworth esquire in eleven years -- though the register does not say the patents paid for the move, and nothing here should be read as saying it did. The machine, as quoted from the 1819 and 1823 specifications, derives power from atmospheric pressure acting with a column of water descending on one side of an enclosed vertical wheel, the water returning to the reservoir 'from which the pressure of the atmosphere raises it to be again delivered on the top'; the 1823 double machine adds paired air-tight cylinders, numbered cocks and valves, pistons and free-moving weights. It fails on the point it is built around: the atmospheric pressure that is said to raise the water into the reservoir is the same pressure that must be worked against to discharge it, and the two cancel exactly over the cycle. CORRECTION, on the register's authority: the compilation gives the 1823 patent as No. 4149. No. 4149 is a grant to John Hawks of Gateshead for a method of making iron rails. Copland's 1823 grant is No. 4749, and the compilation's figure is a misreading.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 4632 (1821) to George Linton, of Gloster Street, Queen Square, Middlesex, mechanist, for 'A new method of propelling machinery without the aid of steam, water, wind, air, or fire' -- a title that defines the invention by everything it refuses, and leaves gravity as the only agent not excluded. The machine is a vertical wheel turning on easy gudgeons whose periphery carries levers 'so constructed that by the mere revolution of the wheel they extend themselves to their greatest length' at the upper part, so as to obtain their greatest acting power on the descending side, and fold again on the rising side. This is the overbalancing wheel, the single most-patented perpetual-motion form in the catalogue. It fails because extending a lever outward on the descending side costs exactly the work its longer moment arm returns: the weights must be carried back in against the same field that paid for their descent, and the two are equal by construction. The compilation's transcription of the title omits 'water', which the register carries.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 5191 (18th June 1825) to Edward Jordan, of the city of Norwich, engineer, for his discovered 'New mode of obtaining power applicable to machinery of different descriptions'. The specification -- seven printed folio pages and two large drawings, which is a substantial filing for the type -- claims power from 'sinking or forcing down to any convenient depth under water, buoyant vessels, by or with a lever', the submerged vessels then being directed so that they are alternately placed in a position to act upon parts forming in effect a lengthened portion of the lever that depressed them. The refutation is the buoyancy budget and needs no new principle: forcing a buoyant vessel down costs precisely the work its ascent returns, and the lengthened lever redistributes that work without creating any. Dircks calls it 'a singularly impracticable invention' while noting the care of the filing -- the combination is characteristic of the whole class, where drafting effort and physical impossibility are uncorrelated.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British patent No. 5461 (1827), 'A New Motive Power', granted to Sir William Congreve of Cecil Street, London, Baronet. The construction is an inclined plane over pulleys carrying an endless band of sponge, with a second endless band of jointed weights running over it, the whole standing in still water. On the ascending side the sponge enters the bath uncompressed and takes up water by capillary attraction; on the descending side the weights squeeze it out. The claimed result is a permanent weight asymmetry that turns the band continuously. The device is refuted by ordinary statics rather than by any new principle: capillary rise cannot deliver net work over a closed cycle, because the same attraction that lifts the water also retains it, and releasing it costs exactly what raising it gained. Congreve was a serious inventor of the period -- military rockets, a time fuze, a hydropneumatic canal lock (1813), a colour-printing process (1821) -- which is why the record is worth carrying: it is a competent engineer's perpetual-motion claim, published under his own name and examined in the contemporary literature. Catalogued in Dircks, Perpetuum Mobile (1861), pp. 314-329, and the subject of a separate contemporary publication, 'Sir William Congreve on Perpetual Motion'.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 6290 (1832) to Pierre Nicolas Hainsselin, of Duke Street, Saint James's, Middlesex, architect and engineer, for 'A machine or motive power for giving motion to machinery of different descriptions, to be called Hainsselin's Motive Power' -- the eponym is in the granted title itself, and the register carries it. The machine is an endless series of hinged reservoirs or buckets forming a chain over a large drum, with a cogged wheel, pinion, eccentric, fly wheel and balance beams carrying circle segments. The claim rests entirely on one clause of the patentee's own declaration: the descending buckets are filled with water 'which water is raised to a suitable elevation for the purpose, PRINCIPALLY BY THE ACTION OF THE MACHINE ITSELF'. That qualifier is the whole invention and the whole error -- a bucket chain cannot lift the water whose descent is its only source of work, and 'principally' concedes that the patentee knew a shortfall had to be covered without saying what covers it.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 6510 (1833) to Barthelemy Richard Comte de Predaval, of Leicester Place, Leicester Square, Middlesex, engineer, for 'An engine for producing motive power, applicable to various purposes'. The apparatus is elaborate -- an outer circular case on a stand, a water- and air-tight cylinder turning on an axis in a stuffing box, an inner drum, pistons or friction plates filling the space between drum and case on all four sides, an air cock, a mercurial gauge, springs, leather packing and metal plates. Dircks records the operating claim in the patentee's terms: the engine acts 'by joint power derived from the buoyancy of a body in fluids, and the weight of a body in vacuo'. Those are not two independent sources to be joined; they are the same weight measured against two different surroundings, and their difference is what an ordinary hydrostatic balance reads. THE RECORD IS CARRIED CHIEFLY FOR WHAT HAPPENED NEXT: Dircks notes that this patent 'was made the subject of a joint-stock company', which moves it out of the class of paper claims and into the class that raised money. The compilation does not name the company or state the sum, and neither is asserted here.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 8312 (1839) to Jacob Brazill, governor of Trinity Ground, Deptford, Kent, for 'Improvements in obtaining motive power'. The declaration is short and unusually explicit about its own mechanism: the invention consists in an arrangement of mechanism 'wherein the atmospheric air is employed as the impelling agent, being brought to bear in such a manner as, by exerting a constant urging pressure, to produce a continuous rotary motion'. The phrase 'constant urging pressure' is exactly what defeats it. A static pressure that is the same everywhere around the cycle integrates to zero net work over a closed path; an atmospheric engine can only do work against a maintained pressure DIFFERENCE, and maintaining that difference is the cost the specification never pays. The patentee's office -- governor of the Trinity Ground at Deptford, a Trinity House establishment -- places him among respectable public appointees rather than speculative outsiders.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
Sensitives reporting glows and sensations from magnets/crystals in darkness; extensive self-published protocols; ancestor lineage of orgone-type claims.
Class: Biological · Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C1P1T3Q1
A persistent claimant rather than a single device, which is why the record spans fifteen years. British Patent No. 10,711 (1845), 'A hydro-pneumatic apparatus for producing motive power', to William Willcocks Sleigh of Chiswick, Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine and Surgeon, working by applying hydrostatic pressure in a chamber in such a manner as to reduce the effect of that same pressure -- illustrated in Dircks (1861) p. 446. British Patent No. 809 (1853), 'The counteracting re-acting motive power engine', to the same man, then of London, Physician and Surgeon: a water machine with pump and rotary chambers. In 1860, from 49 Middleton Square, London, he described 'The neutralific motive-power engine' in four drawings on two large sheets, without a patent number in the catalogue. The three share one structure -- a fluid arrangement whose own reaction is claimed to cancel the pressure that drives it -- and are refuted by the same statics each time: a closed fluid circuit cannot return less work than it takes to drive it. ⚠ ATTRIBUTION WARNING, verified rather than assumed: British Patent No. 174 (1854) belongs to ADDERLEY Willcocks Sleigh -- Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword, Captain in the Royal Services of Portugal and Spain, late R.N. -- a different man and evidently a relative. The two are NOT merged here.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 410 of 1852 to Lot Faulkner, of Cheadle, Cheshire, machinist, for 'Certain improvements in the method of obtaining motive-power'. PROVISIONAL PROTECTION ONLY, per the register -- the invention was published by the filing and then abandoned to the public, which Dircks notes with evident satisfaction. The arrangement is a beam vibrating on a fixed centre, the machinery to be driven hung at one end and at the other two levers mounted on studs, 'so connected by spur gearing that they shall revolve in opposite directions and always counterbalance each other', with weights placed on those levers. The patentee concludes that because the power required to set the weighted levers in motion 'is so small in comparison with the force exerted at the other end of the vibrating beam, it will be evident that a great increasing motive power is obtained'. It is not evident and it is not obtained: two levers geared to counterbalance each other exert no net torque, which is the definition of counterbalanced, and the small force needed to move them is small precisely because they deliver nothing.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 283 of 1852 to Thomas Greaves, of Manchester, Lancashire, veterinary surgeon, for 'Improvements in the method or means of obtaining and employing motive-power'; the register records Letters Patent sealed, so this went beyond provisional protection to a granted patent. Dircks describes a beam about six feet long fixed upon a frame, with two connecting rods at one end -- one attached to a crank, the other to a roll over a hopper -- followed by a flat chain, a large pulley and buckets. The patentee's claim is quoted as the machine dispensing 'entirely and altogether with either steam power or manual labour', to which the compiler's whole rebuttal is 'Believe it who' -- the sentence breaks off, and the abruptness is the point: by 1852 the type no longer earned an argument. The catalogue further reports that in October 1855 Greaves commenced but did not complete a further patent for improvements on the above, proposing a single shaft through the beam and two large bevel wheels. THAT SECOND APPLICATION IS REPORTED, NOT VERIFIED: no corresponding entry was located in the 1855 register volume consulted, and an incomplete application may not appear there at all.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 706 of 1852 to Ernst Luedeke, of Bedford Street, Strand, Middlesex, CLOCKMAKER, for 'Improvements in obtaining and applying motive-power'. Provisional protection only. The trade is the register's contribution -- the compilation gives the name and address but not the occupation, and it matters here more than usual: a clockmaker is a man who works daily with escapements, that is, with the problem of feeding a pendulum exactly enough energy to replace what it loses. The declaration is one sentence: 'I intend, by the use of a pendulum, double wheel, and springs, to produce vibration, kept up by the concurrent action of the pendulum'. Stated plainly, the pendulum is to be sustained by its own action. This assumes what a real escapement supplies from a weight or a mainspring, and the whole of horology is the record of that supply being necessary.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 1163 of 1852, taken out by Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66 Chancery Lane, Middlesex, mechanical draughtsman, for 'Improvements in obtaining and applying motive-power'. Letters Patent sealed. The register marks it 'A communication' -- the London term of art for a patent filed on behalf of an inventor abroad -- so THE PRINCIPAL NAMED HERE IS THE COMMUNICATOR, NOT THE INVENTOR, and the originating inventor is not named in the index consulted. The invention consists in employing the pressure of a weight or of a lever to act upon one or more wheels, rollers or pulleys, and thereby to cause them by their rotation to actuate the machinery. CORRECTION, on the register's authority: the compilation gives the patentee as 'L. V. Newton, Patent Agent'. The register gives Alfred Vincent Newton, mechanical draughtsman, of the Office for Patents -- the same house that appears repeatedly through the 1852-53 volume as a conduit for continental filings.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 887 of 1852 to Thomas Wood, of the Glue Works, Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds, Yorkshire, millwright, for 'Improvements in the mode of obtaining motive-power'. Letters Patent sealed, and Dircks notes that 'a good drawing of this notable machine accompanies the specification'. The invention obtains motive power 'by means of a wheel, the periphery of which water, or any other fluid confined within a box or case, presses on', the rotary motion being communicated to a larger wheel; combined with this water chamber and wheel the patentee employs weights 'made alternately to rise and fall, and by means of levers and suitable gearing to act upon the wheel'. Two independent impossibilities are stacked: confined fluid pressing on a wheel periphery exerts no net torque, since the pressure acts normal to the surface through the axis, and the weights that alternately rise and fall must be raised by the same machine they are meant to drive.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 118 of 1853, dated 17th January 1853, taken out by Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of the United Patent Offices, 16 Castle Street, Holborn, Middlesex, for 'An improved machine for obtaining motive-power'. A communication; provisional protection only. As with Newton's No. 1163 the previous year, the named principal is the patent agent and the originating inventor is not named in the register -- Dircks records only that the plan was 'communicated by a foreigner'. The machine is composed of pumps of small diameter and a water reservoir into which air is pumped, causing the water to escape by a tube into a smaller cylinder, with the claim that 'once in movement, the machine will feed itself, and will not require any auxiliary motive power'. TAKEN TOGETHER WITH THE NEWTON ENTRY THIS IS THE RECORD'S REAL CONTENT: by the early 1850s the London patent-agency houses were a standing channel through which continental perpetual-motion claims entered the British register under an agent's name, which is why the register's authorship cannot be read as inventorship for this class of filing.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 174 of 1854, dated 24 January 1854, to Adderley Willcocks Sleigh, for 'Creating a continual self-acting, self-sustaining new motive-power, applicable to every purpose requiring speed, motion, and power, together or separately' — a title that concedes the whole claim in its first four words, where most of the catalogue hides behind 'improvements in obtaining motive power'. He styles himself Knight of the Most Noble and Ancient Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal and Captain in the Royal Services of Portugal and Spain, late R.N. The specification claims, first, the application 'of the identification of lesser quantities of matter in fluids or liquids to greater' of the same or different temperatures, and second, 'the principle of the specific gravity and momentum' of a body in a medium or in a vacuum, together with four further means in the same register. Dircks quotes it at length and calls it jargon, noting that the patentee finally concedes his only object is to prove that certain natural powers can be applied to an engine — which is to say the document declares an intention where a specification is required to disclose a mechanism. Two folio pages, extraordinarily executed. THIS RECORD COMPLETES A DISTINCTION THE CORPUS ALREADY CARRIED AS A WARNING. The entry for William Willcocks Sleigh, M.D., of Chiswick flags that No. 174 of 1854 belongs to a DIFFERENT man and refuses the merge; that refusal now has its own record standing behind it rather than only a caution. The two are separate and evidently related, and nothing here establishes the relation. The Patent Office filed this claim under AIR AND GAS ENGINES.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 2304 of 1855 to Robert Benton, of Birmingham, engineer, surveyor and land agent, for 'Improvements in obtaining motive-power by leverage'. **Letters Patent sealed; no specification filed** — the register's own note, and worth carrying, because a sealed patent with no specification means the claim was paid for and never described. The object is to keep a barrel or wheel in continuous motion by the successive application of any even number of levers acting independently of each other in eccentric rather than circular orbits: each lever, on coming in contact with an eccentric plane, is for the time elongated and rendered a long lever with a short shank, and having passed the plane is 'neutralized' on the rising side by being fixed so as to form one side of a cube figure, square or octagonal, and carried round in that attitude until its pivot returns to its starting point. The word doing the work is 'neutralized'. Folding a lever in on the rising side does not neutralize the weight it carries, it only shortens the arm — the mass still has to be lifted, and the elongation on the falling side is paid for exactly. THE COMPILER'S CLOSING REMARK IS THE REASON TO KEEP THE RECORD HUMAN: Dircks notes that Benton had reached an advanced age by this date, and that his experience and earnest belief in the truthfulness of his scheme 'might well plead an ample apology for the wilder non-perpetuities of mere tyros in mechanical science' — a nineteenth-century critic distinguishing between a lifetime's sincere error and a novice's carelessness, in a catalogue otherwise written to mock.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 288 of 1855 to Jacques Roux Delouey-Malavas, gentleman, of Montbrison in the Empire of France, for 'Improved machinery for obtaining and applying motive-power'. Letters Patent sealed. The patentee calls it 'gravitation machinery' and rests it on a premise that is not wrong, only useless: the power is said to depend on 'the difference which exists with the same weight, according to whether it is brought nearer to or further from its point of gravitation'. Weight does vary with distance from the centre of the Earth. Over the metre or so a bench machine spans, the variation is a few parts in ten million, and it is symmetric — whatever is gained lowering a mass is paid raising it. The construction is a set of circular plates fixed accurately on a long horizontal shaft, with long levers between them, their centres of motion at one end and their opposite ends running in guides, the patentee concluding that once the main shaft has been turned once, 'the weight of the levers, by bearing on the discs, will keep it continuously in motion'. A large drawing and four and a half printed folio pages. ⚠ NUMBER CORRECTED AGAINST THE COMPILATION, and in the opposite direction to the usual: the catalogue prints No. 238, the register carries this grant at No. 288, immediately after No. 287 to James Howard of Bedford for improvements in ploughs. The sequential context settles it — a 3 read for an 8 in a scan that also duplicates the following number.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 942 of 1855 to George Augustus Huddart, of Brynkir, Caernarvon, esquire, for 'Improved machinery for obtaining and applying motive-power'. Provisional protection only. The machine is a water-wheel with buckets together with a chain of buckets, the chain raising water to an elevated cistern while being itself rotated by the discharge of the water it has raised. Dircks disposes of it in a single sentence -- 'Why disturb such novelties from their original dust?' -- and the closed circuit is indeed the plainest form in the catalogue. THE PATENTEE IS THE INTERESTING PART. The 1852-53 register shows Huddart filing across an unrelated spread of subjects from the same address: tools for cutting or abrading metallic surfaces (No. 885), improvements in facilitating combustion in steam-boiler furnaces (No. 888), an improved manufacture of artificial flies (No. 889), artificial leather (No. 83 of 1853) and steam generators (No. 84 of 1853). He is a prolific gentleman-patentee whose motive-power filing is one subject among many, not a perpetual-motion obsessive -- a distinction this catalogue does not otherwise let one draw. Dircks additionally lists an 1860 patent, No. 263, to George Augustus Huddart and Joseph D'Erskine Huddart, both of Brynkir, for cylinders with weighted pistons immersed in water so as to vary their buoyancy; THAT ENTRY IS REPORTED, NOT VERIFIED -- the 1860 register volume was not available to this pass -- and it is therefore not carried in the citations below.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 2373 of 1855 to Henry Weber, mechanician, of Zurich in the Swiss Confederation, for 'Certain improvements in apparatus for motive-power'. Provisional protection only. The apparatus is a half cylinder, able to rotate on a centre, placed in an inclined position and supported on drums or friction rollers so that it travels in circular guides; a weight is attached to its upper part so as to press by means of a lever on its upper edge, and 'the weight pressing on the half cylinder imparts to it a continued revolving motion in the guide circles'. This is the overbalancing wheel again, in a rolling rather than a spoked form: the weight that presses the cylinder forward through one part of its travel must be carried back up through the rest, and on an inclined closed guide path the two are equal. The name is recorded here on the register's authority alone -- the compilation's scan renders the surname unreadably, and it is precisely the class of detail that must not be transcribed from a damaged secondary.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 1108 of 1857, taken out by Charles Barlow of the Office for Patents, 89 Chancery Lane, London, for 'A mechanical apparatus for regenerating the impulsive force of any motive-power' — a communication from JOSEPH COMMANDEUR, of Lyons, France, gentleman, who is named in the register and is therefore carried here as the principal, with Barlow as the communicating agent. The machine is two cylinders of different diameters, A and B, wound with helical spirals in reverse senses and set on inclined shafts. Heavy iron balls run down the spirals of A, whose gravitation is the claimed motive power, into a lower horizontal trough C which delivers them into the lower spire of B; B is declared the resistance, and its only office is to carry the balls up again to the top so that A may drop them once more. The patentee states the resulting motion as oscillating and rotatory on account of the inclined shafts. Setting out the return path so explicitly is what makes the record useful: the specification names the lifting stage, describes its mechanism, and simply never prices it, when raising the balls through B costs exactly what dropping them through A returns. THIRD OF THREE COMMUNICATED FILINGS in this set — with Newton's No. 1163 of 1852 and Bellford's No. 118 of 1853 — and together they are the record's real content: through the 1850s the London patent-agency houses were a standing channel by which continental self-motion claims entered the British register under an agent's name. Here the register names the originating inventor, where in the other two it does not.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 2125 of 1857 to William Gilmour, of Dalbeth, in the county of Lanark, North Britain, GARDENER, for 'Improvements in obtaining motive-power'. Provisional protection only. The trade comes from the register, which also places Dalbeth in Lanark; the compilation gives neither. The apparatus is a pair of long parallel horizontal levers of the first order, each on a fulcrum near one end with a weight of predetermined size hung at the longer end. The descent of that weight elevates the opposite shorter arm, which is connected to a short crank on a small horizontal shaft carrying a longer crank at its other end; that longer crank is jointed by a link to the longer arm of a second lever of half the length of the main one, whose shorter arm is linked to an equal-armed lever, whose opposite end is connected by a rod to a crank on a long transverse shaft carrying three further cranks, and so on. The error is the one the whole lever family shares and the length of the train is what disguises it: a lever trades force for distance and conserves work exactly. Chaining seven of them multiplies neither the work nor the shortfall -- it only moves the point where the bookkeeping would have to be done, and the specification never does it.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 3199 of 1857 to William Middleship, of Grove Terrace, South Grove, Mile End, Middlesex, OFFICER OF HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, for 'Improved machinery or apparatus for obtaining motive power'. Provisional protection only. The office is the register's; the compilation's scan of it is unreadable. The machine is a wheel on a spindle kept rotating by maintaining a weight of water always on one side, or, if the wheel is immersed, by inflating air chambers on one side only so that their ascending force turns it. The chambers set around the periphery must be collapsible, so as to receive the air or water alternately and allow it to be expelled when required; the patentee prefers to make them wedge-shaped. THE WORD 'COLLAPSIBLE' IS WHERE THE ACCOUNTING HIDES, and naming that is the reason to carry the record: filling a chamber on the rising side against the surrounding head costs precisely the buoyant work its ascent returns, and expelling it at the top costs the rest. The specification describes the valving and the chamber geometry in detail and the filling work nowhere -- which is the characteristic shape of the class, where mechanical description substitutes for an energy balance.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 958 of 1857 to Bartholomew Predavalle, of 106 Great Russell Street, Bedford Square, Middlesex, civil engineer, for 'A new motive-power'. Provisional protection only. The invention consists in the action, alternately intercepted and restored, of the vertical pressure of liquids on a base, together with the ascent of liquids by capillary attraction: twice the water needed to raise a piston is held in a broad shallow vessel communicating with the cylinder, a reservoir above is connected to the vessel's cover by a filled pipe, and glass capillary tubes are fixed in the cover -- vertical for about an inch, then horizontal for about half an inch, then vertical to the top, a geometry the patentee calls indispensable. THE RECORD'S VALUE IS THE CROSS-LINK. Congreve's British Patent No. 5461 of 1827 raises water by capillary attraction into a sponge belt; Predavalle's raises it through capillary tubes thirty years later; both fail on the identical point, which is that the attraction lifting the water is the same attraction retaining it, so releasing it costs exactly what raising it gained, and no bend in a glass tube changes that. The persistence of one refuted mechanism across three decades of independent filings is a fact about the class, not about either inventor. Dircks further lists No. 2851 of 1859 and No. 1458 of 1860 to the same man, both from Bloomsbury, working from the vertical pressure of a fluid column on a balance beam; THOSE TWO ARE REPORTED, NOT VERIFIED -- the 1859 and 1860 register volumes were not obtainable in this pass. OPEN QUESTION, DELIBERATELY NOT RESOLVED HERE: the 1833 record for Barthelemy Richard Comte de Predaval, engineer, of Leicester Place, may or may not be the same man under the anglicised form of the same name twenty-four years later. Nothing in either register entry settles it, and the two are NOT merged.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 1870 of 1858, dated 16 August 1858, to Pierre Richard, of Rue Saint-Jean, Paris, engineer, for apparatus for obtaining motive power. The invention consists in communicating a rotary motion to a fly-wheel or drum by means of a set of falling weights tied together. It is the plainest statement of the overbalancing wheel in the whole catalogue, and the brevity is the point: where Gilmour builds a seven-stage lever train and Middleship a valved chamber system, the same impossibility is here reduced to weights on a string. Tying the weights together is precisely what guarantees the failure — a closed loop of connected masses has its centre of gravity return to the same height every revolution, so the descending side lifts the ascending side and nothing is left over. The record is carried because a class is best characterised by its simplest member as well as its most elaborate.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 2708 of 1858, dated 29 November 1858, to MOSES STARBUCK of New York — an American filing entering the British register, and the surname is the register's: the catalogue's scan renders it unreadably and no reading recovers it. Provisional specification only, and very brief; Dircks publishes the whole of it. The patentee states that his invention 'consists in the application of a static pressure to produce a continuous movement, which movement is effected IN CONSONANCE WITH THE SETTLED LAWS OF MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, by means of arrangements of devices heretofore undeveloped', and that by these devices he is enabled to convert a static pressure into a continuous movement 'from which the static pressure (minus the friction of the engine) can be continually taken off'. Two things are worth naming. The claim invokes the settled laws of mechanics in the same sentence in which it contradicts them: a static pressure is by definition one that does no net work around a closed path, and 'minus the friction' concedes a loss while asserting the balance survives it. And 'devices heretofore undeveloped' is the entire disclosure — the document names a result and withholds the mechanism, which is what provisional protection permitted and what makes the class so cheap to enter.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 2815 of 1859 to Prince Gustave Gennbrich, of Poland, filed at the British and Foreign Office for Patents, No. 1b Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, Middlesex, for 'A new system of motive power applicable for working cranes and wheels'. Letters Patent sealed. Unusually for the catalogue this is an application rather than a universal engine: a motive power for a crane, to raise goods 'instead of multiplied hand or steam power'. The principle is a heavy weight sliding on an iron rod attached to the axle of a wheel, with a chain fastened to the rod so that the sliding turns the wheel; the patentee states that 'by the heavy weight sliding to and fro the iron rod acts as balance and creates a power'. Sliding a mass outward along a rod and back to its start returns it to the same height and the same radius, so the cycle closes on zero however the chain is dressed; the figure list runs to thirteen numbered parts without ever reaching the step that would pay for the outward slide. ⚠ TWO IDENTIFIERS RECOVERED FROM CONTEXT RATHER THAN READ, and flagged because neither source is clean. The number: this scan prints '2816' for both this grant and the following one to Thomas Stather, with No. 2814 (Breckon and Dixon, coke ovens) immediately before, so the sequence places this at 2815 — which is what the catalogue prints, and the two agreeing is the reason it is carried. The name and nationality are the register's: the catalogue's scan renders the surname unreadably and its place of origin as something closer to 'Ireland', where the register has 'of Poland'. The register is preferred as the primary, but the surname should be treated as provisional until a clean scan confirms it.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
British Patent No. 754 of 1859 to Hugh Rigby, of Salford, Lancashire, engineer, for 'Improvements in machinery or apparatus for obtaining motive power, applicable to hoists and all other purposes to which motive power can be applied'. Letters Patent sealed. The patentee's own account, quoted in Dircks: an upper reservoir lets water fall through a regulating valve onto the buckets of a water-wheel or turbine and into a lower reservoir; the wheel drives a series of hydraulic pumps which force water into one or more hydraulic rams, each carrying a larger pump-bucket working in a barrel whose bottom sits in the lower reservoir, and the effect of the larger bucket is to raise the spent water back to the upper reservoir, 'which is thus continually supplied'. The whole of it is a closed circuit asked to refill itself, and the ram is the place where the claim hides: a hydraulic ram is a real machine and does raise a small part of a flow to a greater height, but it does so by SPENDING the rest of the flow, never by returning all of it higher than it started. Three printed folio pages and four large sheets of drawings, which is why the documentation grade is not the minimum. ⚠ THIS RECORD EXISTS BECAUSE THE COMPILATION'S NUMBER AND NAME WERE BOTH WRONG. Dircks prints the patentee as an unreadable scan and the number as 'No. f5a'; that is No. 754, and the man is Hugh Rigby, not any of the readings the damaged small-caps suggest. He was located by matching the patent TITLE — which Dircks quotes verbatim and which is long enough to survive bad OCR — against the 1859 register volume, after a numeric lookup in that volume failed entirely.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T3Q0
'Neutral line' magnet motor with sympathetic national-press coverage; the 19th-century prototype of the magnet-motor media wave.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P2T1Q0
Community-flagged instance. Patented coil pair claimed to sustain its own current — the earliest US patent document in the electromagnetic self-runner lineage; compiler's recall dates it 1871, not 1895.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0RxC0P1T1Q0
Posthumous 1899 findings of concealed compressed-air lines.
Class: Acoustic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P2T3Q0
Paradigm case: 1874 open anomaly (T0), resolved via thermal transpiration (T4). Demonstrates temporal lattice migration.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C3P4T4Q3
United States patent 259,514 (1882). A pump whose lifted water falls onto a wheel that is coupled back to the pump, claimed to 'lessen the labor required' to operate it. Notable for its own modest wording -- it claims a reduction in required work rather than a self-runner outright -- which places it at the boundary of the class rather than squarely inside it. The falling water can return at most the work spent lifting it, less losses.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
United States patent 301,979 (1884). Concentric inner and outer drums carrying pockets that transfer weights from one to the other, the resulting imbalance claimed to drive continuous rotation of the shaft. An overbalanced-wheel construction in drum form: the weights that fall on the descending side must be lifted again on the ascending side, and the transfer mechanism cannot supply that lift for free. The patent is a construction claim -- examination establishes novelty and adequacy of description, never energy balance -- and reports no measurement.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
United States patent 345,077 (1886). Radial hollow arms on an axis carrying sliding weights, actuated by springs through an eccentric, the arrangement claimed to 'increase mechanical power'. The spring-and-eccentric addition is the characteristic move of the class: it makes the cycle harder to follow by eye without changing the fact that the eccentric must be driven. Construction claim only; no measurement reported.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T3Q0
Orthodox anchor: expected drift absent; the null that reoriented physics.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C3P3T4Q3
United States patent 600,457, Electrical Battery (filed 24 October 1896, granted 8 March 1898). The claims describe copper and iron wires insulated from each other and wound compactly in separate insulated layers around a soft-iron core, with water as the electrolyte, and a further configuration incorporating a solenoid or secondary coil so the device also acts as a self-generating induction coil and electromagnet. Read as written, this is a galvanic cell of dissimilar metals in an aqueous electrolyte with an induction coil — ordinary electrochemistry, which is why the record carries an established mechanism edge. The reading of this device as drawing energy from the earth belongs to the later folklore around its inventor and not to the document filed here; the record is included partly to make that distinction visible in the corpus.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T4Q0
Houston Street 'earthquake machine' anecdotes; resonance physics is orthodox, the magnitude lore is not.
Class: Acoustic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P2T3Q0
Patent documents the claim (filing, not observation grade).
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0RxC0P1TxQ0
Spanish patents (1902, 1908, 1914) for a motionless transformer-like generator claimed to deliver kilowatt-scale output from stationary induction coils with a resistive commutator; contemporary press reported operating claims of ~20 kW. The claimed mechanism is ordinary induction, which is what places the record in the orthodox-covered class; no apparatus or measurement survives on record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T4Q1
New radiation reported via faint screen-brightness changes; dozens of confirming papers within France in one year — a replication bubble.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R4C1P1T0Q1
Covert prism removal left reported observations unchanged; the canonical observer-expectancy exposure.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q1
Papers claiming certain complex silicates fall with slightly different acceleration; contradicted by the Eoetvoes tradition of composition-independence.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C2P1T0Q2
Charges below e reported in oil-drop-type experiments against Millikan; resolved via droplet physics and selection analysis; opens the promotion counter on P-EMG-SON-01.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T3Q3
Cosmic-ice cosmology with mass following in interwar Central Europe.
Class: Doctrine
Real, foundational effect originally interpreted by its discoverer as aether evidence — interpretation migrated, phenomenon stayed; today the basis of ring-laser gyros.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C3P3T4Q3
'Electronic Reactions of Abrams': diagnosis from blood spots via box instruments; large practitioner network in the early 1920s.
Class: Biological · Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R4C0P1T3Q0
Cavendish-type setup with electrified masses; claimed modification of gravitational attraction; electrostatic force on the apparatus is the standard account.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R1C1P1T3Q2
Congress passed a joint resolution to examine the 'Garabed'; the committee identified it as a flywheel storing, not generating, energy — a legislative-branch P4 record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C3P4T4Q1
Published series claiming tiny weight reduction of a mass screened by mercury/lead; never reproduced; modern constraints exclude the claimed magnitude.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T0Q3
Press-covered 'fuelless' coil said to drive a boat; later accounts tie the design to concealed radium energy — indexed as period claim plus conventional account.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P2T3Q0
Investigated by German navy and postwar British intelligence (BIOS 2394); never reproduced.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C1P3T1Q1
Multi-kW demonstrations reported by witnesses; device later destroyed.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C1P2T1Q1
'Raumkraft' sphere device; never publicly demonstrated; survives via period accounts and later esoteric literature — the record indexes the period claim only.
Class: Electromagnetic · Optical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P2T1Q0
Kernel: Moray reported attacks on his lab; Meyer died suddenly in 1998 with death officially attributed to natural causes; several inventors faced real legal action (documented in the respective records). / Lore: A coordinated cartel systematically silencing working devices.
Class: Narrative
Persistent ~small drift signal claimed across thousands of turns.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T3Q3
Single-handed megalith construction; documented tripod/rigging evidence offers the standard account.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P2T3Q0
Year-long blinded examination concluding the devices had no diagnostic value.
Class: Instrument reading · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C4P4T4Q1
Plant-tumor and clinical claims around broadband spark-gap coils; hospital-adjacent trials reported in period sources.
Class: Biological · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P2T4Q1
Widely reprinted period story of an RF-expanded, load-lifting quartz crystal; commonly assessed as a magazine hoax; indexed as a print claim.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P0T4Q0
Aviation-era publicity; never independently validated.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P2T1Q0
Charged asymmetric capacitors; Project Winterhaven proposal 1952.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T3Q2
Claimed photographic imaging and treatment of distant patients from a blood sample. A 1949 University of Chicago test of the diagnostic device failed: three of the first blood specimens were so badly misread that the remaining seven were not attempted. Convicted in 1951 of introducing a misbranded device into interstate commerce and fined USD 1,000 — a labelling offence under food and drug law, not a fraud finding. A 1963 California grand-theft charge did not come to trial; she died in 1965.
Class: Biological · Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T3Q0
Tilted-frame illusion geometry is the established account.
Class: Gravitational · Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R4C1P3T4Q1
Patented vapor carburetors with ~200-mpg claims; never validated under controls; seed of the suppressed-carburetor narrative (nar:pogue-200mpg).
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R3C0P2T3Q1
Claimed frequency-specific devitalization of microorganisms.
Class: Biological · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P2T4Q0
Vortex 'implosion' engineering; Repulsine lore.
Class: Mechanical · Thermal · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P2T1Q0
Mechanical 'inertioids' claimed to translate without external reaction; friction rectification is the standard account; ancestor of the Dean-drive family.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R4C1P2T3Q1
Kernel: Pogue's patents and mileage claims are documented. / Lore: Oil interests bought and buried the device.
Class: Narrative
Patent documents the claim; demonstration press reports exist.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0RxC0P1TxQ0
'Aura' imaging; corona discharge modulated by moisture/pressure is the established account. A migrated case like the radiometer.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R5C2P3T4Q1
Particle motions read as 'magnetolysis'/monopoles; never confirmed.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T3Q2
Einstein reproduced a ΔT and attributed it to convection; correspondence ended there.
Class: Biological · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C2P4T3Q2
Kernel: Custody of the estate and a government review are documented; the review found nothing operational. / Lore: Hidden death-ray and free-energy technology withheld from humanity.
Class: Narrative
Spin-up, weight loss, halo, cooling per narrative corpus; no controlled documentation.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Optical · Thermal · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P1T1Q0
Patented 'emanation' analyzer; Astounding editor J.W. Campbell reported symbolic circuit-diagram versions working equally well — inadvertently a suggestion-artifact experiment.
Class: Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R4C0P2T3Q0
Six/eight-dimensional structured field theory with a claimed particle-mass formula; propulsion implications discussed posthumously.
Class: Doctrine
UK radionics laboratory producing 'thought photographs'; 1960 civil litigation ended without a fraud finding.
Class: Instrument reading · Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P2T3Q0
'Causal mechanics'; detectors reportedly responding to true star positions.
Class: Electromagnetic · Gravitational · Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T1Q2
Free-energy saucer venture (OTC-X1, 'Utron' accumulator); a 1959 public demonstration did not take place. Convicted in Oklahoma in 1961 of selling securities without registering them — a registration offense, not a finding of fraud — and fined USD 5,000; conviction affirmed on appeal.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R0C0P2T1Q0
Official Canadian Department of Transport programme (proposed by memorandum of 21 Nov 1950, approved 2 Dec 1950; Smith as senior radio engineer) investigating whether the Earth's magnetic field could be tapped for propulsion. From 1953 it ran an instrumented station at Shirleys Bay near Ottawa (magnetometer, gamma-ray counter, radio receiver, gravimeter). The programme's single candidate event is a substantial gravimeter deflection recorded 8 Aug 1954 at 15:01 under overcast sky with nothing observed visually; it remains unattributed on record. The programme was formally ended days later amid publicity; Smith continued privately at the site until his death in 1962. Files progressively declassified via Library and Archives Canada.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R1C1P2T0Q1
Kernel: Advanced conventional German aeronautics existed; the 'Vril Society' itself lacks primary-period evidence. / Lore: Flight discs, Thule/Vril occult engineering, Antarctic bases.
Class: Narrative
Anomalous paraconical-pendulum precession during solar eclipses.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R4C2P1T3Q3
Signal attributed to thermal gradients and statistical treatment.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q3
Kernel: USS Eldridge existed; wartime degaussing research against magnetic mines was real. / Lore: Optical invisibility, teleportation to Norfolk, fused crewmen.
Class: Narrative
Soviet hydrolysis-energy claims decades before 1989; known mostly through later LENR-community retellings; program reportedly shut down in the 1960s.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P1T2Q0
Motion-as-fundamental cosmology with a persistent study community.
Class: Doctrine
Popularized via Astounding Science Fiction; friction-rectified vibration is the standard account.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P2T3Q0
Claimed shielding-independent induced fields.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R1C1P1T3Q2
Calcium balances in hens etc.; mass-balance errors are the standard account.
Class: Biological · Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R3C1P1T3Q2
Large undisclosed-principle machine; animal-trial cures reported with Academy-level advocacy and state funding; device principle never disclosed, program collapsed.
Class: Biological · Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R2C2P2T4Q2
Influence-machine shown to visitors; independent testing declined.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P2T3Q0
Capillary-condensed water with anomalous properties; a global replication wave followed.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R4C2P1T1Q3
Caltech demonstration ended in fatal explosion; Richard Feynman was present and wrote a skeptical account.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P4T1Q0
Philippine water-car claims; the state science department assessed the device and rejected it. Convicted of estafa in 2008 by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court over research funds taken from a Taiwanese investor and never applied to the promised prototypes — a misappropriation finding, not a verdict on the device. An appeal was announced; its outcome is not established here.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P2T4Q0
Hot-water-freezes-faster reports; multiple conventional mechanisms discussed (evaporation, convection, supercooling, definitions), none settled — a live orthodox-sector anomaly.
Class: Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R4C2P3T3Q2
Soviet-era plasma-discharge over-unity reports.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P2T1Q1
Large Tesla-coil facility aimed at reproducing ball lightning.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P2T3Q1
Pulsed-discharge motor; 'cold' conductor reports.
Class: Electromagnetic · Thermal · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P2T1Q0
'Coupled shutters/mirrors' apparatus claiming measurable aether drift; self-published corpus; died 1997.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T1Q2
Silicate/organic contamination identified; original group conceded — a clean self-correction arc.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C4P4T4Q3
Seed/razor-blade claims; controlled follow-ups null.
Class: Biological · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R3C1P2T3Q1
Period change reported during solar eclipse.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P3T2Q3
Self-published 'ultra relativity' program; Moebius-coil devices with claimed weight and clock effects.
Class: Gravitational · Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P1T0Q1
Oxyhydrogen torches are real; 'cool flame melts tungsten' anomaly claims are the delta.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C1P2T3Q1
Kernel: The Invention Secrecy Act (1951) and standing secrecy orders are real and documented via FOIA; the USPTO's historical working-model demand for perpetual-motion filings is real. / Lore: Systematic burial of functioning energy patents.
Class: Narrative
Patented claims of a gravitational-like field from spinning odd-isotope material; patent documents the claim, no published measurements.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0RxC0P1T0Q0
United States patent 3,890,548, Pulsed Capacitor Discharge Electric Engine (filed 2 November 1973, granted 17 June 1975). The claims cover an engine in which fixed and movable electromagnets are energised by discharging a charged capacitor through them across spark gaps, producing magnetic repulsion, with charging circuits recharging the capacitors after each discharge so that rotation is maintained by successive discharges. The document is a construction claim: patent examination establishes novelty and adequacy of description, not energy balance, and the specification reports no input-output power measurement. The energetic claims attached to this device in the later literature rest on separate demonstrations that are not part of this document.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T1Q0
Perceived gyro 'weight loss'; later resolved within classical mechanics.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P3T4Q1
Claimed altered fall/rise of rotating steel balls.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R1C1P1T3Q2
Patent granted for magnet-gate geometry; working self-runner never validated.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R3C0P1T1Q0
Video/sample corpus; military delegation visits documented 1983; never independently reproduced under controls.
Class: Biological · Electromagnetic · Instrument reading · Mechanical · Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P1T3Q0
Scalar-wave and vacuum-engineering corpus (Energy from the Vacuum) framing MEG-type devices.
Class: Doctrine
Reaction-diffusion ether model; author also popularized electrogravitics-in-aerospace claims.
Class: Doctrine
Theory of the physical vacuum underpinning the torsion-field program.
Class: Doctrine
Vacuum-vortex model of the electron motivating reactionless-generator work.
Class: Doctrine
State-adjacent 'torsion generator' program; funding exposed ~1991; repeatedly targeted by the RAS pseudoscience commission (est. 1998, Kruglyakov).
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T1Q1
Widely built pulse motor; desulfation offers a conventional account of battery 'recovery'.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C1P2T3Q1
Faraday-disc generator with claimed anomalous output.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T3Q2
Video-documented lecture demonstrations of claimed longitudinal magneto-dielectric transmission (single-wire and analog-computing setups in the Tesla tradition), asserting propagation modes outside transverse electromagnetics; near-field coupling is the standard conventional reading; no controlled independent replication on record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P1T1Q1
Commercialized 'informed water' devices.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R2C0P2T1Q0
Cone-and-magnet constructions; anecdotal flight claims.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P2T1Q0
Hobby-electronics-published claims that simple electrolytic-capacitor circuits register 'gravity signals' with astronomical correlations, framed in the author's rhysmonic cosmology; circuit articles and logs appeared in the electronics press. Microphonics and vibration pickup are the discussed conventional accounts; no controlled replication on record.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C0P1T3Q1
Twin-gyro rig with claimed net lift; TV-era coverage and university bench visits; no controlled confirmation.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P2T3Q1
Above-Faraday electrolysis claims sold to investors as technology dealerships; an Ohio court found fraud in 1996 and ordered repayment of USD 25,000 to two investors, after court-appointed experts reported the cell performed conventional electrolysis. Reported contemporaneously in the press; the court record itself was not consulted.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P1T3Q0
1986 NBS measurement: efficiency below 100% on all tests; patent litigation followed.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C3P4T4Q3
Long-running amateur experiments centrifuging small pyramids past magnets, with claimed intermittent 'energy bubble' episodes of anomalous force and radio-frequency opacity, including correlations with astronomical alignments; documented through conference presentations and third-party write-ups. Vibration and slip-ring artifacts are the discussed conventional accounts; no independent controlled replication on record.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P2T3Q1
Micron-scale high-charge-density electron clusters from pulsed sharp cathodes; borehole witness marks and energy-gain claims; conventional account discussed: explosive electron emission / cathode-spot ectons (Mesyats).
Class: Electromagnetic · Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R2C1P1T3Q2
Conditioned-magnet device; witness accounts report self-powering, device weight loss under load, and cooling.
Class: Electromagnetic · Gravitational · Thermal · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R1C0P2T1Q1
Academician-thermodynamicist turned heterodox; clock-rate and weight claims framed in his own 'chronal' theory.
Class: Gravitational · Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T0Q1
Kernel: Hutchison reports confiscations of his apparatus; delegation interest in the 1980s is documented. / Lore: State suppression of a working effect.
Class: Narrative
A formally presented propulsion-conference design (AIAA 17th Joint Propulsion Conference, 1981) proposing weight reduction by microwave-driven dynamic nuclear orientation 'cooling' the virtual-particle environment of a test mass; a single supporting bench test is claimed in posthumous secondary accounts (1994, family-published), with no surviving primary data on record.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0R1C0P1T1Q0
Patented claims of efficient resonant water dissociation; patent documents the claim.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D0RxC0P1TxQ0
The generator described in the Soviet patent literature and program documents is a copper coil wound as a conical spiral with a permanent magnet on its axis, driven by 12 V DC with an audio-frequency signal modulated on top, and carrying two switches, one for power and one for polarity; the patent was filed in 1990 and published in 1992. The program attributed a concrete claim sheet to the device class: signal transmission through metal shielding without attenuation, strengthening of steel at milliwatt-level drive, shifts in seed germination, a 'spin memory' by which exposed media retain an altered spin structure for some period after switch-off, and reversal of effects when the polarity switch is reversed. The institutional arc is documented: a closed-mode program from the mid-1980s funded through the Ministry of Defense, the Military-Industrial Commission and the KGB (1987 funding application listing weapons detection, covert communication and psychophysical influence), an open-mode phase 1989-1991 under Akimov's Center for Non-Traditional Technologies and then ISTC VENT, with roughly half a billion rubles of funding by Akimov's own account. In 1991 an Academy of Sciences investigation found the money spent without scientific review and the program was shut down; Evgeny Alexandrov dismissed torsion communication as a bluff, V. A. Kuznetsov published 'Torsion Fields — A Myth' (Fizicheskaya Mysl Rossii 3/2002), and Shipov replied in the same issue. No controlled examination of the device-level claims themselves is documented on either side of that dispute, and no independent replication under stated controls is on record — the adversarial examination that exists operated at the program-and-funding level, which is why the C axis sits at 1 despite a genuinely filled dispute record.
Class: Biological · Electromagnetic · Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C1P1T1Q1
Reanalysis suggesting composition-dependent coupling; triggered a worldwide measurement campaign incl. an early claimed positive (Thieberger float experiment).
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P3T0Q3
Claimed detection of absolute motion via standing-wave wavelength asymmetry, reporting ~378 km/s toward Leo — numerically close to the later-measured CMB dipole velocity. Published as a Nature correspondence plus a fuller account; a supportive commentary (Aspden) followed. Critics attribute the signal to detector/standing-wave misinterpretation; no accepted independent replication on record. Graduates the Release-B candidates entry.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R2C1P1T1Q2
Reads discharge and LENR witness marks (boreholes, micro-craters, strike patterns) as signatures of exotic vacuum objects / charge clusters; contemporary open-science analyses extend the reading across the heterodox corpus.
Class: Doctrine
High-precision nulls closed the fifth-force window; local mass gradients and data treatment explained earlier signals. Model resolution arc entirely inside orthodoxy.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C5P4T4Q3
Large screened-dowser study; authors reported a few 'skilled' outliers under double-blind conditions. Enright's 1995 reanalysis found the result attributable to chance (see the linked reanalysis record).
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C3P3T3Q3
Basophil degranulation at extreme dilution.
Class: Biological · Chemical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T1Q3
Blinded protocol; effect not reproduced.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q3
Adversarial replications reporting null within calorimetric error.
Class: Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P4T4Q3
Pd-D electrolysis; announcement Utah, 23 March 1989.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T3Q3
Chirality-dependent weight loss reported.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P1T3Q3
Neutron rates far below F-P heat claims.
Class: Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T2Q3
Massfree-energy framework built atop the PAGD experimental line.
Class: Doctrine
Community-replicated as a motor; over-unity claim unconfirmed.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P2T3Q0
Pulsed abnormal glow discharge with claimed net energy.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R2C2P1T3Q2
Conference demonstrations and self-circulated documentation in the 1990s-2000s free-energy scene; claimed kilowatt-scale output from small high-voltage resonant coil assemblies attributed to ambient/vacuum energy. A large builder community pursued reconstructions (the Kapanadze generator lineage is commonly described there as Smith-derived); power-measurement error under high-voltage resonance is the standard conventional account discussed; no independent controlled replication on record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C0P1T3Q1
Selection of crystal images correlated with intentions/labels.
Class: Chemical · Optical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T3Q0
No anomaly at higher precision.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q3
Claims that a modified bipolar transistor ('charge-barrier' device) transmits information via longitudinal/scalar channels, including through shielding, with demonstrations described in the free-energy scene; no data sets, schematically incomplete disclosures, and no independent verification on record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T1Q0
Book-documented levitation platform based on insect-shell geometry.
Class: Biological · Mechanical · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P1T1Q0
Cavitation heater; heating is orthodox, COP>1 claim is not confirmed.
Class: Thermal · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T4Q2
Demonstration kits; conventional near-field coupling is the standard account.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R3C1P1T3Q2
Reported He-4 commensurate with excess heat in Pd-D cells. McKubre's SRI heat-helium work is a separate, later replication line, not this paper.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R4C3P1T3Q3
Patented pulsed magnet-wheel fans with claimed anomalous efficiency; media coverage, no independent efficiency audit published.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P2T3Q1
Long-running electrolysis and glow-discharge program; book-length account published 1998; 2019 R20 reactor preprint circulated for community replication.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R3C2P1T3Q3
Backscatter of flash on near-lens particles is the established account.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R5C1P3T4Q0
'Plasma' fuel-reformer claims; community builds, no controlled validation.
Class: Chemical · Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C0P2T3Q0
Coated-bead electrolytic cell shown at trade conferences with high claimed COP; kits circulated; never independently validated or commercialized.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R3C1P2T3Q2
Nickel-hydrogen excess-heat series published in Il Nuovo Cimento (1994); the direct ancestor of the E-Cat lineage.
Class: Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T2Q3
Videotaped toroid demos; device and inventor withdrew from scrutiny.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R1C0P1T1Q0
Persistent low-frequency hum reports; no external source identified for most hearers.
Class: Acoustic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R4C2P3T3Q2
µN-scale thrust claims on torsion balances; adversarial campaigns ongoing.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R3C3P1T3Q3
Kernel: HAARP is a real ionospheric research heater, now university-operated, with published science. / Lore: Weather weaponization, earthquake induction, mass mind control.
Class: Narrative
Classical-physics reformulation predicting hydrino states below the hydrogen ground state.
Class: Doctrine
Below-ground-state hydrogen claims with extensive self-published data; demonstrates the X- private-extension mechanism of §5.
Class: Chemical · Optical · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R3C2P1T3Q3
0.05–0.3% weight loss reported above rotating YBCO disc.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T2Q3
Kernel: Camp Hero radar station exists. / Lore: Time tunnels, psychic chair, child experiments.
Class: Narrative
United States patent 6,104,107 (filed 10 May 1993, granted 15 August 2000) claims transforming electrical energy into oscillating free charges — the specification's own words are 'a displacement current or longitudinal wave' — and transmitting it to a load over a single conductor rather than a closed two-wire circuit, with either a diode circuit or coupled inductors at the receiving end. The document contains a construction and a method; it reports no measurement series and no energy balance. Reading against the orthodox literature: a wave does propagate on one unshielded conductor, it does possess a genuine longitudinal electric-field component, and its return path is genuinely displacement current — this is the transverse-magnetic surface wave described by Sommerfeld and Zenneck (1907), solved by Stratton (1941, pp. 527–529) and engineered by Goubau (J. Appl. Phys. 21:1119, 1950; US 2,685,068, 1954). The patent's operative language is therefore descriptively accurate and anticipated by roughly five decades. The record therefore carries an established mechanism edge (M-SRF, guided surface-wave propagation), registered in the standard at 1.5.0 precisely because this class of claim previously had no orthodox node to attach to and was being graded off heterodox edges that understated it.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T4Q0
Report that a restarted rotor briefly required anomalously little spin-up energy after a stop; bench anecdote, never systematized.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R1C0P1T0Q1
Statistical reanalysis finding results consistent with chance; selection of outliers as the artifact.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q3
Publicly exhibited rolling-ball sculpture in Norway; clever mechanics is the standard account.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R1C0P3T3Q0
Small gravity residuals reported around the 9 March 1997 Mohe total eclipse, measured on a LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter. The reported shape is itself the diagnostic: the decreases of roughly 6-7 uGal fall at FIRST and LAST CONTACT rather than at totality, which is the wrong place for any genuine shielding effect and the right place for something tracking the ambient change that the eclipse drives. AMENDED 2026-07-26 to carry the instrumental explanation that the record previously left unnamed. Unnikrishnan, Mohapatra and Gillies (Phys. Rev. D 63, 062002, 2001) analysed the same data and offered an environmental and instrumental origin as THE explanation, concluding the anomaly does not support gravitational shielding. The specific mechanism is transducer tolerance rather than ambient warmth acting on the mass: gravimeters of this class lose verticality as temperature changes, the resulting shift in the instrument's own response is known from the MANUFACTURER'S CALIBRATION DATA, and tilt is not routinely monitored during a measurement run -- an uncalibrated transducer drifting slowly, reproducibly, and in step with the driving variable, which is the shape a real effect also has. CONTESTED, and the record does not pretend otherwise: Yang and Wang (Astrophys. Space Sci. 282, 245, 2002) reply that room temperature varied by under 1 C and pressure by under 1 hPa, which in their reading excludes an environmental origin. The T4 coordinate and the EP-5 epistemotype record that an established mechanism IS CLAIMED for the observation, which is true of Unnikrishnan's paper; they do not assert that the community has settled it. This is the corpus's first instance of M-ART-TOL, registered at standard 1.6.0 and until now carried by no record.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P3T4Q3
Partial rebuilds; no confirmed effect.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C3P3T2Q2
Sunward ~1e-9 m/s^2 residual on both spacecraft; open anomaly for 14 years.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R4C3P3T0Q3
Arc-gasification fuel marketed with claimed novel 'magnecule' species; conventional syngas chemistry is the discussed account.
Class: Chemical · Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C1P1T3Q2
Announced gravity-modification research; no public results.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D1R0C0P1T2Q0
Schwarzschild-proton and vacuum-geometry papers proposing a unified field; presented largely outside peer-reviewed venues.
Class: Doctrine
Long-lived luminous plasmoids launched from water-surface discharges; reproducible laboratory analog with sub-second lifetimes.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R4C2P3T3Q2
Pulsed 'plasma electrolysis' with claimed over-unity hydrogen yield; self-published monographs.
Class: Chemical · Thermal · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T3Q2
Meter-and-lamp demonstrations; hidden-supply hypothesis repeatedly raised.
Class: Electromagnetic · Instrument reading · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P1T3Q0
Widely replicated as EHD thrust; effect vanishes in vacuum.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R5C3P3T4Q2
Video-marketed all-magnet motor with investment scheme; the venture was the subject of subsequent legal proceedings. No court outcome is asserted here — none could be verified against a primary source.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C0P1T1Q0
Reported weight change, pink glow, cooling around rotating magnet assembly.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Optical · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R1C1P2T1Q2
A cluster of published US patent applications (2000s, San Juan) claiming spacecraft propulsion via rotating electrostatic fields, 'hyperspace' transitions and related constructions — including the widely circulated triangular-spacecraft application US 2006/0145019 A1. None granted, none demonstrated, no measurements on record; the corpus is notable as formally published design documents rather than experiments.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-4 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R0C0P1T1Q0
Kernel: SS technical programs and the Wenceslas-mine area exist. / Lore: Bell-shaped antigravity/time device, Xerum-525, Kecksburg tie-in.
Class: Narrative
Australian magnet-motor company; claims never independently validated.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R1C0P1T3Q1
Claimed force beam from superconducting discharge; preprint only.
Class: Gravitational · Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R1C1P1T2Q2
COP>1 claimed for flux-switched transformer; patent granted 2002.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T3Q1
Cs→Pr reported after D2 permeation through Pd/CaO multilayers.
Class: Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P1T3Q3
Sonofusion claim; later Purdue research-conduct inquiries (2008).
Class: Nuclear / material · Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P1T4Q3
Asymmetric resonant cavity thrust claims.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P1T2Q1
TV-covered torch and car demonstrations under a branded oxyhydrogen; conventional combustion accounts discussed.
Class: Chemical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P2T3Q0
Economist ad 2006; failed Kinetica demo 2007; own jury 2009: no evidence of energy production.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R1C0P1T1Q0
Reported acceleration fields near spun cryogenic rings; later attributed to artifacts by the group itself.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R3C3P1T3Q3
Pd co-deposition with track-detector pits read as energetic particles; chemical-damage accounts discussed.
Class: Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R4C2P1T3Q2
Public demonstration of D2 gas-loaded Pd nanopowder heat by a decorated materials scientist; helium claimed as product.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C2P2T2Q2
Reactionless-thruster test reported aboard a Russian smallsat; publicly criticized by RAS members; no confirmed orbit change attributable to the device.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R1C1P1T0Q1
Motor acceleration under load claimed; press-reported bench visits at university labs; conventional back-EMF/field-weakening accounts discussed.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P2T3Q1
University-hosted bench experiments: a light rotor turning continuously near charged electrodes at nanowatt scale, interpreted by the experimenter as conversion of vacuum-energy; self-published measurement reports with honest small-scale numbers. Ion-wind (electrohydrodynamic) and electrostatic-artifact accounts are the discussed conventional explanations; partial vacuum runs reduced but did not settle the dispute; no independent replication on record.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P1T3Q2
Claimed EM signatures and 'teleported' DNA templates from high dilutions.
Class: Chemical · Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C2P1T3Q2
Claimed Howard-Johnson replication; frame analysis raised a hidden-thread hypothesis.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R1C0P1T3Q0
'Gas in nano state' production claims.
Class: Chemical · Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D2R2C0P1T1Q0
Ex-nuclear-engineering executive; over-unity homopolar-style generator claims framed by his space-vortex theory (doc:tewari-space-vortex).
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C1P2T3Q1
University-venue demonstration (Delft, 2010) of a self-running magnet motor; teardown under controls never granted.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R2C0P2T3Q0
60 ns early neutrino arrival reported with explicit request for scrutiny.
Class: Instrument reading · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D6R3C3P1T0Q3
Ni-H reactor demos; Industrial Heat litigation settled 2017.
Class: Thermal · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D4R2C1P2T3Q1
The paper reports reception of 1.3 GHz radiation attributed to the longitudinal vector potential, using an NE-2 neon bulb carrying a DC bias current of ±8.8 mA as the receiving element, 2 m from a quarter-wave monopole driven at 1 mW and aimed end-on at the detector. The coupling model is Konopinski's conjugate momentum (Am. J. Phys. 46, 499, 1978): the interaction energy e[φ − v·A] couples through the charge velocity, so the detector requires a DC drift velocity collinear with A, and the predicted received power matches the measurement within ±1.5 dB. The paper's central discriminator is that the received RF phase reverses by 180° when the DC bias current is reversed — a signature the author argues ordinary electric-field reception cannot produce, since the E-force on electrons is independent of their drift direction while the v·A coupling is odd in v. Received power falls 6 dB per doubling of range, confirmed at 2, 50 and 100 m; a planar reflector behind the bulb adds 6 dB, which the author reads as forward and reflected longitudinal waves producing equal detected currents. Below about 4 m a localized non-propagating longitudinal E field coexists and adds or subtracts with the A-current depending on bias polarity. Beyond the measurement, the paper asserts that the radiation carries no energy, only linear momentum, with the detected power drawn from the receiver's own bias supply, and that the Lorentz gauge is the only physical gauge — the author's interpretive claims, not established physics. No independent replication is documented; the author's stated weakest quantitative link is the literature value of the NE-2 electron density. The detection technology is addressed by US Patent 8,165,531 (held by McMaster University).
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R2C2P1T1Q3
Slit-spectrograph capture during a storm showing soil-element lines (Si, Fe, Ca) — consistent with soil-vaporization accounts.
Class: Optical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R1C2P3T3Q3
Loose fiber connector and clock drift identified; ICARUS null; textbook fast self-correction.
Class: Instrument reading · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C4P4T4Q3
Anisotropic thermal radiation recoil accounts for the acceleration — a migrated anomaly, radiometer-style, at spacecraft scale.
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R5C4P3T4Q3
Brazilian demonstrations of 'earth-electron captor' generators with claimed self-looped outputs to tens of kilowatts from small input; international patent applications (WO 2013104041, WO 2013104042, WO 2013185199) describe the coil-and-ground arrangements. Builder-community reconstruction attempts are documented and did not reproduce the claims; hidden-supply and power-measurement accounts are the discussed conventional explanations.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-2 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C0P1T3Q1
Crowdfunded open-source builds; no build confirmed over-unity.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-1 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D3R3C0P2T3Q0
Multi-lab program; no confirmed excess heat to date.
Class: Nuclear / material · Thermal · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T2Q3
~1.2 mN/kW reported on torsion balance in vacuum.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C3P3T3Q3
Granted US patents (inertial-mass-reduction craft, high-frequency gravitational-wave generator, room-temperature-superconductor claims) assigned to the US Navy; the underlying 'Pais effect' was tested inside NAWCAD 2016-2019 at ~$500k and the programme concluded the effect could not be demonstrated. FOIA releases document the internal review, the test programme and the invention disclosures. The inertial-mass-reduction patent has since lapsed (fee-related).
Class: Gravitational · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R2C3P4T1Q2
Thrust signals traced to thermal/interaction artifacts at higher precision.
Class: Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C4P4T4Q3
Peer-reviewed reports of steady electrical output from metal-insulator-metal devices joined to Casimir cavities, interpreted by the authors as injection imbalance from suppressed vacuum optical modes; thousands of device trials with artifact-exclusion runs reported. Disputed on second-law grounds; no independent-laboratory replication on record. Related patent US 7,379,286.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R2C2P1T3Q3
Peer-reviewed Nature claim (2020) of room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride under megabar pressure. Retracted 26 September 2022: per the retraction note, the editors acted after questions about a non-standard, user-defined background-subtraction procedure whose details were not specified in the paper; the authors maintained that the raw data support the claims. Independent groups did not reproduce the result.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T4Q3
Gamma-driven deuteron fusion in metal lattices published in a mainstream venue — orthodox-adjacent boundary case for the S-LNR neighborhood.
Class: Nuclear / material · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R2C3P3T2Q3
Peer-reviewed Nature claim (March 2023) of near-ambient superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride at kilobar pressures. Retracted 7 November 2023 at the request of co-authors, who per the retraction note stated that the published paper does not accurately reflect the provenance of the investigated materials, the experimental measurements undertaken and the data-processing protocols applied; concerns about the electrical-resistance data were raised independently. No independent replication succeeded.
Class: Electromagnetic · Profile: EP-3 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D7R3C2P1T4Q3
Preprint claim of ambient-pressure superconductivity above 400 K in a copper-substituted lead-apatite, supported by resistivity drops and a partial-levitation video; posted 22 July 2023 and viral within days. The claimed mechanism is established superconductivity in a new material, which places the record in the orthodox-covered class. Independent laboratories reproduced the anomalies but not superconductivity; see the linked examination record.
Class: Electromagnetic · Mechanical · Profile: EP-5 · Evidence coordinate: E1:D5R3C1P1T4Q2
Within weeks, multiple independent groups synthesized the material, reproduced the reported resistivity drop and diamagnetic anomalies, and traced them to a first-order structural transition of a copper-sulfide impurity near the claimed transition temperature — sample contamination as the operative mechanism, with no zero resistance and no Meissner state. One of the fastest documented claim-to-examination cycles in the corpus.
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