Two wheels, one toothed, one eccentric
("This Power Wheel Drove By Liquid Fuel Oil")
Patent Drawing, perpetual motion mechanism
ca. 1949

BIOGRAPHY

John Sowell was born on a farm in Grass Valley, California, in 1864, and grew up in the foothills of the Sierras during an era of active pioneering and exploration. While still a young man, Sowell worked in Nevada and California as a mining engineer, prospector, farmer, clerk, and machinist, but it was modern warfare, the discovery of machine-powered flight, and the development of energy sources that excited him most after the First World War broke out. In 1918 he wrote a treatise on the future of aeronautics, and spent much of the latter half of his life creating inventions related to both aviation and perpetual motion. The date and place of his death are unknown.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.