TOP 10
IMPOSSIBLE INVENTIONS THAT WORK
When Leonardo da Vinci sketched out an
impossible invention, fifteenth-century scholars probably put him down.
Forget it, Leon. If machines could fly, we'd know about it.
Throughout history, experts tell innovators that their inventions are
impossible. A few examples:
- The English Academy of Science laughed at Benjamin Franklin when
he reported his discovery of the lightning rod, and the Academy
refused to publish his report.
- A gathering of German engineers in 1902 ridiculed Count Ferdinand
von Zeppelin for claiming to invent a steerable balloon. (Later,
Zeppelin airships flew commercially across the Atlantic.)
- Major newspapers ignored the historic 1903 flight of the Wright
brothers airplane because Scientific American suggested the flight was
a hoax, and for five years officials in Washington, D.C. did not
believe that the heavier-than-air machine had flown.
Perhaps in the 21st century the following inventions will be standard
science, and a history student may wonder why 20th-century pundits
disregarded them.
1. THE SPACE ENERGY CONVERTER
This class of inventions could wipe out oil crises and help solve
environmental problems. More commonly called free energy or fuelless
electric generators, they put out more power than goes into them from
any previously recognized source. No batteries, no fuel tank and no link
with a wall socket. Instead, they tap an invisible source of power. Such
unorthodox clean energy-producing devices exist today and were built as
far back as the l9th century.
Forget the Rube Goldberg mechanical perpetual motion contraptions;
they had to stop eventually. In contrast, new solid-state (no moving
parts) energy converters are said to draw from an energy field in
surrounding space. This source of abundant power is known by physicists
as the zero-point quantum fluctuations of vacuum space. Zero-point
refers to the fact that even at a temperature at which heat movement in
molecules stops cold, zero degrees Kelvin, there is still a jiggling
movement, said to be from interdimensional fluctuations or cosmic
energy. Magnetism and vortexian or spin-upon-a-spin motions seem to line
up these random fluctuations of space and put them to work, as in the
Searl Effect (Atlantis Rising, first issue).
Inventors give various names to their space-energy converters. In the
1930s a scientist in Utah, T. Henry Moray, invented a Radiant Energy
device powered from the sea of energy in which the earth floats. This
sea that surrounds us, Moray said, is packed with rays which constantly
pierce the earth from all directions, perhaps from countless galaxies.
Converting this cosmic background radiation into a strange cold form of
electricity, his device lit incandescent bulbs, heated a flat iron and
ran a motor. His sons say he was thanked with bullets and other
harassments, but that's another story.
A spiritual commune in Switzerland had a tabletop free energy device
running in greenhouses for years, but members feared that outsiders
would turn the technology into weaponry. Before the commune closed its
doors to snoopers, European engineers witnessed the converter putting
out thousands of watts. However, most other unorthodox energy
technologies are still at the stage of unreliable, crude prototypes. (So
was the Wrights first airplane; it only flew about a hundred feet.)
The inventor of AC (alternating current) electrical generating and
transmission systems, the genius Nikola Tesla (1857-1943), was said to
have run a Pierce-Arrow car on a free energy device in the 1930s.
Although that's difficult to document now, we have his word that it's
possible. It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in
attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature, said Tesla.
It may have been done before Tesla's time. Among the free energy
inventions of John Worrell Keely (1827-1898) is the Hydro
Pneumo-Pulsating-Vacuo motor that used cavitation (implosion) of water.
Although Keely reached an advanced understanding of the science of
vibrations, he failed to develop machines which other people could
operate. Progress continues from other directions, a company in Georgia
is selling water cavitation devices that range from 110 per cent to 300
per cent efficient.
Up in Vancouver, Canada, Tesla researcher John Hutchison says he has
a feel for the natural flows of a subtle primal energy. In the spring of
1995 he showed his latest invention to the author and a mechanical
engineer. The Hutchison Converter involves crystalline materials and the
principle of electrical resonance. He twirls a few knobs to tune it, and
the energy flow is amplified until it runs a one-inch diameter Radio
Shack motor. The whirring of a small propeller isn't too impressive
until you remember that there are no batteries and the device runs for
days at a time.
The garage inventors come from many backgrounds. Wingate Lambertson
Ph.D. of Florida, former executive director of Kentucky's science and
technology commission, invented a device which converts the space energy
fluctuations into electricity which lights a row of lamps. This
dignified former professor took a roundabout route to the free-energy
scene. In the mid-1960s he read There Is a River by Thomas Sugree, who
writes about the destruction of Atlantis through misuse of a crystal
energy collector. Lambertson's psychic friend later offered to
collaborate on replicating the first Atlantean energy converter, but
Lambertson eventually turned to his own knowledge of ceramics and metals
to develop an energy converter. Neither his nor other known zero-point
energy conversion methods of today are based on the first Atlantean
crystal method, because the researchers found better methods. Also, the
concept of a central power station providing electric power to a nation
is obsolete, says Dr. Lambertson. Small energy converters will follow
the path of the personal converter.
2. COLD FUSION
In Japan, cold fusion is called New Hydrogen Energy, and that
oil-dependent nation welcomes successful experiments. In contrast, two
pioneering experimenters were hounded out of North America. David Lewis
described this scene as Heavy Watergate in Atlantis Rising, issue two.
Update: A successful experiment was served up in Monte Carlo in
April, at the Fifth International Conference on Cold Fusion. Clean
Energy Technologies Inc. of Florida demonstrated a cold fusion cell with
energy output as much as ten times more than input. Other companies are
also gambling on this new source of heat energy which could drive
electric generators.
What exactly causes atomic nuclei to fuse, and release energy,
without extreme high temperatures and pressures? A Romanian physicist
writing in Infinite Energy magazine, Dr. Peter Gluck, wonders if it
could be only partly a catalytic nuclear effect, and partly a catalytic
quantum effect providing the capture of the zero-point energy, The
ubiquitous z-p energy.
3. SYSTEM TO SPLIT WATER FOR FUEL BY USING RESONANCE
Another variation on the water-fuel theme relies more on vibrations
than on chemistry. At more than 100 per cent efficiency, such a system
produces hydrogen gas and oxygen from ordinary water at normal
temperatures and pressure.
One example is U.S. Patent 4,394,230, Method and Apparatus for
Splitting Water Molecules, issued to Dr. Andrija Puharich in 1983. His
method made complex electrical wave forms resonate water molecules and
shatter them, which freed hydrogen and oxygen. By using Tesla's
understanding of electrical resonance, Puharich was able to split the
water molecule much more efficiently than the brute-force electrolysis
that every physics student knows. (Resonance is what shatters a crystal
goblet when an opera singer hits the exact note which vibrates with the
crystal's molecular structure.)
Puharich reportedly drove his mobile home using only water as fuel
for several hundred thousand kilometers in trips across North America.
In a high Mexican mountain pass he had to make do with snow for fuel.
Splitting water molecules as needed in a vehicle is more revolutionary
than the hydrogen-powered systems with which every large auto
manufacturer has dallied. With the on-demand system, you don't need to
carry a tank full of hydrogen fuel which could be a potential bomb.
Another inventor who successfully made fuel out of water on the spot
was the late Francisco Pacheco of New Jersey. The Pacheco Bi-Polar
Autoelectric Hydrogen Generator (U.S. Patent No. 5,089,107) separated
hydrogen from seawater as needed.
A pioneer in breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen without
heat or ordinary electricity, John Worrell Keely reportedly performed
feats which 20th-century science is unable to duplicate. He worked with
sound and other vibrations to set machines into motion. To liberate
energy in molecules of water, Keely poured a quart of water into a
cylinder where tuning forks vibrated at the exact frequency to liberate
the energy. Does this mean he broke apart the water molecules and
liberated hydrogen, or did he free a more primal form of energy? The
records which could answer such questions are lost. However, a century
later, Keely is being vindicated. One scientist recently discovered that
Keely was correct in predicting the exact frequency which would burst
apart a water molecule. Keely understood atoms to be intricate vibratory
phenomena.
4. SYSTEM FOR SENDING POWER WIRELESSLY
Look, Mom Earth, no power lines!
Tesla may have wanted to voice such a boast, but it didn't turn out
that way; the world is crisscrossed with transmission lines for the
electrical power grid. His invention for sending electrical power
wirelessly wasn't too popular on Wall Street.
Before the power brokers figured out what he was up to, Tesla built a
tower-topped laboratory near what is now Colorado Springs. He filled the
mountain air with thunderous manmade lightning bolts and pounded the
earth with electrical oscillations as he tested ideas about electrical
resonance. Then he returned to New York to build Wardenclyffe, a complex
wooden tower on Long Island from which he planned to send both
communications and power wirelessly. When banker J. Pierpont Morgan
realized Tesla could make it possible for anyone to stick an antenna in
the ground anywhere and get electrical power, the banker cut off the
inventor's funding and blocked other financial deals that Tesla tried to
make. Wardenclyffe tower was torn down and sold for scrap.
In recent years, scientists such as James Corum Ph.D. have learned
that Tesla did successfully test a wireless system in Colorado. For
example, Tesla knew specific frequencies associated with the
earth-ionosphere waveguide, knowledge he could not have had in the
nineteenth century unless he had sent electrical oscillations
wirelessly.
5. ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICE
In 1923 Townsend T. Brown's simple flying discs demonstrated a
connection between electricity and gravitation. Working along these
lines for twenty-eight- more years, Brown patented (U.S. Patents
2,949,550, 3,018,394 and others) an electrostatic propulsion method.
Starting with two-feet-in-diameter suspended discs flying around a pole
at seventeen feet per second, he increased the size by a third, and the
discs flew so fast that the results were highly classified, said an
international aviation magazine in 1956. Before the end of his life
Brown had apparatus that could lift itself directly when electricity was
applied. He died in 1985.
The bottom line: if electrogravitics is developed, we could have an
electric spacecraft technology which does not obey known electromagnetic
principles. The craft would thrust in any direction, without moving
engine parts. No gears, shafts, propellers or wheels.
Coupling effects between electricity or magnetism and gravity are
shown by other experimenters, including David Hamel of Ontario and Floyd
Sparky Sweet of California. At a 1981 symposium in Toronto, Rudolf
Zinsser of Germany demonstrated a device (U.S. Patent 4,085,384) that
propelled itself, according to credible witnesses such as professional
engineer George Hathaway. Zinsser claimed his specifically shaped pulses
of electromagnetic waves altered the local gravitational field.
Hathaway collaborated in the mid-1980s with John Hutchison on
action-at-a-distance experiments in which heavy pieces of metal
levitated and shot toward the ceiling when put in a complex
electromagnetic field, and some metal samples shredded anomalously.
Visitors to the laboratory came from Los Alamos and the Canadian
department of defense. (The military is a quantum leap ahead of the
academics in spooky science.)
Read the first issue of Atlantis Rising for a fascinating antigravity
story, John Searle's levity disk generator.
6. A METHOD FOR TRANSMUTATION OF ELEMENTS
Changing atomic elements or making elements appear mysteriously? It
sounds like impossible alchemy, but experimenters recently did this,
without Big Science particle accelerators. These scientists learned from
a metaphysician, Walter Russell (1871-1963). During vivid spiritual
experiences, Russell had seen everything in the universe, from the atom
to outer space, being formed by an invisible background geometry.
Russell not only portrayed his visions in paintings, he also learned
science. He was so far ahead that in 1926 he predicted tritium,
deuterium, neptunium, plutonium and other elements.
Recently, professional engineers Ron Kovac and Toby Grotz of
Colorado, with help from Dr. Tim Binder, repeated Russell's 1927 work,
which was verified at the time by Westinghouse Laboratories. Russell
found a novel way to change the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen in water
vapor inside a sealed quartz tube, or to change the vapor to completely
different elements. Their conclusion agrees with Russell: the geometry
of motion in space is important in atomic transmutation. Kovac
shorthands that idea to geometry of space-bending.
These modern shape-shifters speak of Russell's feats such as prolate
or oblate the oxygen nucleus into nitrogen or hydrogen or vice versa. To
change nuclei, they change the shape of a magnetic field. Although they
used expensive analyzing equipment, it is basically tabletop science. No
atom-smashing cyclotron needed; just a gentle nudge using the right
frequencies. Focus and un-focus light-motion, create a vortex and
control it.
Cold fusion researchers are also running across strange elements
popping up in their own electrified brews. No one is proposing to make
gold and upset world currencies, but some experimenters aim to clean up
radioactive waste by their novel processes.
7. ORGONE ACCUMULATOR
As Wilhelm Reich, M.D., (1897-1957) moved from Europe to Scandinavia
to America, he left a trail of angry experts in every field he explored,
from psychiatry to politics to sexology, biology, microscopy and cancer
research. His work all led toward one unifying discovery, a mass-free
pulsating life-force energy he named orgone, because he discovered it in
living organisms before finding that it also permeates earth's
atmosphere.
Reich's life ended in prison after prolonged conflict with the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration. His books and papers were burned by
federal officials because the FDA had gathered a case against use of his
orgone accumulator for therapy. The accumulator is a box made of layered
organic and inorganic materials; experiments with it show anomalous
results. An unusual temperature rise inside the accumulator indicates
limitations of the second law of thermodynamics. Whether or not
concentrated orgone can help with health problems, the accumulator does
defy standard science.
8. The CLOUDBUSTER'
In 1952 Wilhelm Reich invented a method of rainmaking that doesn't
involve cloudseeding with chemicals. Cloudbusting, otherwise known as
etheric weather engineering, invokes principles that are hard for the
conventionally trained mind to accept. The technology is low-tech; point
some hollow metal pipes at the sky and connect their lower ends into
running water. But unless you know both meteorology and orgonamy, please
don't try this at home, on our planet.
Among the properties of the primordial energy, orgone, Reich
observed, are its absorption into water, its role in controlling weather
and its dangerous state when excited by radioactivity. The planet
doesn't need any more mad-scientist experimenters manipulating natural
systems, but it may need a more advanced understanding of what nuclear
power plant emissions do to the atmosphere. (Reich's followers warn that
the planet's life-force is disturbed by the excess radioactivity.)
9. THE RIFE MICROSCOPE & FREQUENCY GENERATOR
In the late 1920s Royal Raymond Rife of San Diego invented a
high-magnification, high-resolution light microscope. This meant that he
could see unstained living cells, unlike the dead specimens seen under
an electron microscope. Basically, he developed an electromagnetic
frequency generator which he could tune to the natural frequency of the
micro-organism under study. Further, he learned that certain
electromagnetic frequencies could kill specific bacterial forms.
New discoveries in biophysics not only shed light on the illumination
process of Rife's microscope, they also explain how he could selectively
explode viruses. His concept of shape changing bacteria indicates that
traditional germ-theory dogma is incomplete. Despite documented cures,
his non-drug, painless electrical treatment of diseases was not welcomed
by a powerful medical union.
10. ELECTRONIC TELEPATHY DEVICE
When Patrick Flanagan was a teenager in the early 1960s, Life
magazine listed him as one of the top scientists in the world. Among his
inventions was the Neurophone, an electronic instrument that can program
suggestions into a person directly through skin contact. He made the
first Neurophone at age fourteen, out of kitchen junk, his electrodes
were scouring pads made of fine copper wire and insulated with plastic
bags. He then wired the electrodes to a special transformer attached to
a hi-fi amplifier. Holding the pads on his temples, he could hear,
inside his head, music from the amplifier. Later models automatically
adjusted the signal to resonate with the human subject's skin as part of
a complex circuit. Patent officials said it was impossible for a sound
to be heard clearly without vibrating bones or going through a crucial
nerve of the ear, and refused for 12 years to patent it. The file was
re-opened when a nerve-deaf employee at the patent office did hear with
a Neurophone.
At one time Flanagan researched man/dolphin language, on contracts
with the U.S. Navy. This led to a 3-D holographic sound system that
could place sounds in any location in space. He then perfected a
Neurophone model which could be used for subliminal learning that would
go into the brain's long-term memory banks. But after he sent in a
patent application on a digital Neurophone, the Defense Intelligence
Agency slapped on a Secrecy Order and he was unable to work on the
device or talk to anyone about it for five years. This was discouraging,
since the first patent took twelve years to get.
Having helped certain deaf people to hear, Flanagan's next miracle
could be to help the blind to see. All we have to do is stimulate the
skin with the right signals.
With public acceptance of inventions such as space-energy converters
and super-learning devices, perhaps today's innovators will pull the
establishment, kicking and scoffing, into a new world view before the
21st century. However, figure that there will always be experts to say
Forget it: such things are impossible.
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