Guillot

Guillot is the surname attributed to the inventor or author of a source dossier filed under the archive's "Atmospheric power" grouping (dossier 21), hosted at [source note 2]. The page is associated with a named apparatus, the "Eclator", and with a second unresolved identifier, "565".

What is known

The source names him as eng. Jules Guillot and attributes to him two French patents — #551,882 (16 April 1923) and #565,395 (25 January 1924) — on the capture of atmospheric electric currents, as well as a device described in a 1930 encyclopedia article by Gillbert Darida. The source does not supply a nationality, birth/death dates, or institutional affiliation beyond the French patent filings.

Context

The dossier sits in the same archive grouping as the C. Earl Ammann atmospheric-generator material, which is the other atmospheric-power case documented in this wiki. The grouping is thematic and archival; it does not establish that Guillot's apparatus shares Ammann's claimed principle.

Related work

• Eclator — the named apparatus associated with this dossier.
• atmospheric-electricity-extraction — the shared concept page for atmospheric-power claims.
• c-earl-ammann — the other inventor in the same archive grouping.

Further reading

• Power from the Air: Robert A. Nelson's Survey of Atmospheric Electricity Collectors, from Palenscar to Guillot and Plauson — a survey by Robert A. Nelson that places Guillot's "electric siphon" beside Hermann Plauson's balloon collectors and earlier US patents; it repeats the output claims without independent measurement.
• The Practical Use of Atmospheric Electricity: Andry-Bourgeois's June 1923 Account of Jules Guillot's Double-Antenna Collector in La Science et la Vie — Andry-Bourgeois's June 1923 article in La Science et la Vie, which calls Guillot a young French engineer, prints his portrait and describes his collector, its lamp demonstration and his winding-less motors.
• Walter I. Pennock's 1909 US Patent 911,260: A Balloon-Borne Collector for Atmospheric Electricity — Walter I. Pennock's US patent of 1909 for a balloon-lifted wire collector, filed in 1907, which shows that high-altitude collection was patented well before Guillot's French filings.
• The Global Atmospheric Electrical Circuit: R. G. Harrison's 2004 Review and the Physical Baseline for Atmospheric Power Claims — R. G. Harrison's 2004 review of the global atmospheric circuit, giving measured fair-weather values (about 120 V per metre, 3 pA per square metre) against which the claimed outputs of Guillot's collector can be judged.