Thomas Henry Moray was an inventor from Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

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Moray graduated from LDS Business College

LDS Business College

LDS Business College is a two-year college in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on training students in business and industry. The college is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and operates under the Church Educational System and is associated with the Brigham Young University...

, he studied electrical engineering

Electrical engineering

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 through an international correspondence school course. He later received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Uppsala. Moray developed what he termed the "Moray Valve"—a device for extracting "radiant energy" from the "energy waves of the universe", which he thought to be an inexhaustible environmental energy source.

In the 1930s, Thomas Henry Moray reported that he and his family had been threatened and shot at on several occasions and his lab ransacked to stop his free energy research and public demonstrations.

Further reading

• GL Johnson, Searchers for a new energy source: Tesla, Moray, and Bearden Power Engineering Review, IEEE, 1992. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org), Chapter 6, "Endless Light: Thomas Henry Moray", pp. 169–224