Garabed T. K. Giragossian

Garabed T. K. Giragossian was an Armenian living in Boston who is remembered for developing a perpetual motion device shortly after the turn of the 20th century.

435, enacted on February 8, 1918, and authorized the Secretary of the Interior to form a scientific committee to investigate the machine.

[1] According to an editorial in the Scientific American in 1918, Giragossian claimed that the machine, named Garabed, took energy out of the cosmos and turned it into mechanical motion.

[2] Editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association compared him and his methods with quacks in the medical world; they pointed out that he could not answer the question what qualifications he had to undertake his work, and that he repeatedly only replied, he was an honest man and that he could prove it with signatures of friends and sponsors.

"[2] Supposedly involved in a conspiracy, Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution offering him protection.