Lester Hendershot archive

In the late 1920s, while working on an aviation compass, Lester Hendershot built a device he said drew power from the earth’s magnetic field. It made headlines and drew investors including Charles Lindbergh, but no one has reliably reproduced it. These are the documents collected about it.

The Hendershot Motor Mystery PDF, 12.4 MB
A 58-page compilation by Chris Sykes on Lester Hendershot and his device.
Hendershot (Chris Sykes) PDF, 3.0 MB
A shorter 16-page document by Chris Sykes.
Lester Hendershot (Alternative Energy Institute) Web page, 28 KB
The story of Hendershot's thirty years of work on a device thought to tap the earth's magnetic field.
The Inventions of Lester Hendershot Web page, 7 KB
Assembly of the "basket weave" Power Capture Unit. Hendershot claimed 200 to 300 watts around 1930.
The Inventions of Lester Hendershot (full saved page) Web page, 29 KB
The original saved web page, with its images.
How did the Hendershot device work? Web page, 10 KB
An analysis by Fred B. Epps (JLN Labs, 1997).
Hendershot Device (W. Beaty) Text, 2 KB
A short plain-text overview.

These are archived copies of pages and documents from other authors, kept as they were found.

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