Precedents for Perpetual Motion

The Wheel (~4000 BC, and independently in the New World)

Failed Wheels (The Bhaskara Wheel, 1150)

Toilet (John Harrington's Flush Toilet, 1596)

Fuel-Based Motor (Michael Faraday,1821)

Bicycle (Starley's Modern Bicycle, 1885)

Energy Using Sprinklers and Differences in Air-Pressure 

(Philip Carson's Downdraft Energy Tower), 1975, introduced 2013