Guillot: The 'Eclator' and Atmospheric Power

What this source is

This entry covers a source dossier filed under the archive's "Atmospheric power" grouping (dossier 21). The page is hosted at [source note 2] and concerns the atmospheric-electricity collector of Jules Guillot, described in a 1930 encyclopedia article by Gillbert Darida and in two French patents: #551,882 (16 April 1923, "Appareil Capteur de Courants Electriques dans L'Atmosphere") and #565,395 (25 January 1924, "Combined Apparatus for Capture of Atmospheric Electric Currents with Immediate Implementation"). The "565" identifier in the image set corresponds to the second patent number; the eclator-*.jpg images accompany the patent text.

The dossier is image-heavy. The audit record for this capture lists eight images associated with the page:

• fig1.jpg — a figure, presumably a schematic or diagram
• eclator-1.jpg, eclator-2.jpg, eclator-3.jpg — photographs or drawings of the "Eclator" apparatus
• 565c.jpg, 565-2.jpg — images associated with the "565" identifier
• fe2.jpg, fe3.jpg — images associated with an unidentified "fe" prefix

Evidence status and limitations

The source text is available and consists of a 1930 encyclopedia article by Gillbert Darida plus two French patents. The dossier reports the following claims, which are attributed to the source and are not independently verified:

• The Guillot device is said to have generated about 2.5–3 kW with an antenna height of ~20 m, and the apparatus in the photograph is said to have produced ~300 W with a 2 m collector; power is stated to depend on total collector surface and antenna height.
• The collector is described as using two insulated armatures: a vertical antenna with fan-scattered rods pointing to the zenith to collect negative electricity, and a horizontal antenna oriented south (toward the equator) to collect positive electricity.
• The 1930 article states the device had a 20 m height and 3 m² total surface, and that Guillot used a transformer for industrial use.
• The patents describe lightning arrestors, regulators, resistance panels, "vacuum cleaners" (filter boxes), and an auxiliary battery/Ruhmkorff-coil starting arrangement.

The "fe" prefix in the image filenames is not explained by the source text.

Readers should treat this page as a pointer to an archive dossier, not as a description of a verified device. The archive collects inventor dossiers and article and patent references; an archive entry describes what was collected, not what has been demonstrated.

Why it is grouped with atmospheric power

The dossier sits in the same archive grouping as the C. Earl Ammann "Atmospheric Generator" material, which is the other atmospheric-power case already documented in this wiki. Both pages concern claims to draw usable energy from an ambient or atmospheric source, and both are presented by the archive as inventor accounts rather than as independently validated results. The topical overlap is with atmospheric-electricity-extraction, which should be read as the shared concept page for this class of claim.

The connection is thematic and archival, not evidential: nothing in the available material for the Guillot page establishes that its apparatus operates on the same principle as Ammann's, or on any principle at all.

What would need to be established

The source supplies the attribution (Jules Guillot, French patents of 1923 and 1924, and a 1930 encyclopedia article by Gillbert Darida) and the stated claims listed above. What the source does not supply is independent verification: no third-party test, replication, or measurement protocol is reported. The output figures (2.5–3 kW; ~300 W) are the source's assertions and should be treated as attributed claims, not established findings.

Related work

• atmospheric-electricity-extraction — the shared concept page for claims to extract power from the atmosphere or an ambient source.
• c-earl-ammann and atmospheric-generator-ammann — the other atmospheric-power case in this wiki, from the same archive dossier grouping.
• comparison-ammann-claims-vs-evidence — the existing comparison structure for an atmospheric-power claim; a parallel Guillot comparison would only be warranted if the source supplies enough claim detail to assess.
• over-unity-claims — relevant if the page asserts efficiency above unity or self-sustaining operation.