Since time immemorial, inventors have helped make our lives safer, easier and more comfortable. But not all creators were given the green light, there were inventions that, despite their revolutionary nature, did not become widespread, since they were not given a go by influential forces.
Here top 7 useful inventions we will probably never see.
7. Cloud Destroyer
It would be great to make it rain when you need it. This problem was dealt with by the scientist Wilhelm Reich, who in 1953 created an invention called "Cloudbuster" (Cloud Destroyer). It was supposed to help farmers in Maine, as a prolonged drought threatened to destroy their blueberry crops. When Reich made his first attempt at launching his creation, it was predicted to be sunny in the vicinity. Several hours passed after the launch of the machine and thunderclouds appeared in the sky. And then about 0.64 centimeters of precipitation spilled onto the ground. After that, the government withdrew from the Reich his records and prototypes of the device. And no new Cloudbuster test followed. But the Cloud Destroyer could possibly solve the problem of food shortages in the arid regions of the Earth.
6. Electronic coding system
At the end of the 20th century, Jan Bernhard Slut developed a revolutionary data compression technique. According to the author of the invention, he managed to compress the film into one gigabyte to 8 kilobytes. Sloot demonstrated the success of his project by playing 16 films from a single 64 kilobyte chip. Investors have already attacked Slut with offers to buy this incredible invention, but the innovator died under suspicious circumstances.
5. Electric vehicle (not hybrid)
In the late 1990s, General Motors was the first to market the all-electric GM EV1. However, it was not intended for mass production. The company produced a total of 1117 vehicles and all of them were available only for leasing.
According to reports from the time, GM decided that customers were unhappy with the batteries installed in the car and chose to switch to more modern gasoline options. But there is an assumption that the corporation was simply pressured by large oil companies.
4. Tom Ogle carburetor
In the 1970s, mechanical inventor Tom Ogle created a new type of carburetor. Although Ogle's device was tested and allowed to travel up to 48 kilometers on one liter of fuel, it was never produced commercially. The principle of operation of the carburetor was based on heating gasoline to obtain steam, which then entered the combustion chambers. This required a fuel tank structurally supported like a pressure vessel. Not only did Ogle's invention significantly save motorists money, it almost did not pollute the atmosphere. The inventor even claimed that the exhaust from a car equipped with his carburetor could "dry the hair."
Oglu was repeatedly approached by representatives of gas and oil companies, offering money to "freeze" the development. However, the inventor invariably refused (although there were rumors that he still sold his brainchild).On August 19, 1981, Ogle fell and died. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was an overdose of propoxyphene and alcohol. The death was ruled a suicide after a cursory investigation, but several people close to Oglu indicated that they did not believe the young mechanic could have killed himself.
3. Rife's device
In the third place in the ranking of the most amazing and forgotten inventions today is the cancer treatment machine. In 1934, it was created by the American inventor Royal Rife. With the help of a specially designed microscope, he was the first human to see a living virus too tiny to visualize with pre-existing technology. Rife then demonstrated a device - a broadband electromagnetic wave generator - capable of destroying pathogens. Through long experimentation, Rife created a table of frequencies that are harmful to pathogens of various diseases.
There are 14 documented cases of Rife curing cancer patients whose disease was in the terminal stage. However, when the scientist refused to cooperate with the head of the American Medical Association (AMA), the organization used every opportunity to devalue Rife's work. The researcher accused AMA, the Department of Public Health and other medical organizations of conspiracy to fire him and defame him. He created Beam Ray, which made 14 devices, but the firm soon went bankrupt, doctors who supported and collaborated with Rife received grants for other research and re-prescribed traditional cancer drugs to patients, and the doctor himself became desperate and turned into an alcoholic.
2. Water car
Taking a ride with the breeze in a car filled with water is still a pipe dream. But it could have come true if Stan Meyer's invention had been mass-produced. This magnificent car consumed a liter of water for 43 kilometers. Colleagues close to Meyer said they put a lot of pressure on him, forcing him to curtail work in the field of machines working on water. But Meyer refused to bury his invention. Although the same colleagues and friends claimed that Meyer was poisoned for his refusal to submit to the large oil corporations, it is documented that the inventor died suddenly from a brain aneurysm.
1. Free energy
In the first place in the list of great lost inventions, which were not given a course, is the creation of the famous Nikola Tesla. He wanted to give free energy to humanity, and in well-documented tests, he demonstrated that he could very well make his dream a reality. Tesla is known to have developed prototypes that enhance wireless power transmission and can provide power to large areas powered by just one tower. Although most people supported Tesla's idea, funding for his project was cut to zero, and the scientist's laboratory mysteriously burned to the ground. Free energy is perhaps the most documented and globally significant project of all the unrealized useful inventions in the world.