5 Incredible Lost inventions
No. 5 Cold Fusion Device
Eugene Mallove was a notable proponent and
supporter of research into cold fusion.
He was the author the book Fire from Ice,
which details the 1989 report of successful
cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann
at the University of Utah.
Mallove claims that the results were suppressed
through an organized campaign from mainstream
physicists.
He was fatally beaten May 14, 2004 by an unknown
assailant.
His violent death was suspected by some to
be related to the nature of his work.
No. 4 Water Fuel Cell
Stanley Meyer produced nine patents relating
to his �water powered� car.
He was subsequently sued by two investors
and the court found Meyer guilty of �gross
and egregious fraud�, ordering him to repay
the investors their $25,000.
Following his sudden death, an autopsy showed
that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.
Meyer�s supporters continue to claim that
he was assassinated by �Big Oil�, Arab
death squads, Belgian assassins, or the US
Government in order to suppress his inventions.
No. 3 Earthquake Machine
At one point while experimenting with mechanical
oscillators, Nikola Tesla allegedly generated
a resonance of several buildings causing complaints
to the police.
As the speed grew he hit the resonance frequency
of his own building and belatedly realizing
the danger he was forced to apply a sledge
hammer to terminate the experiment, just as
the astonished police arrived.
The Discovery Channel�s popular MythBusters
show examined Tesla�s claim that he had
created an �Earthquake Machine� in their
60th episode.
They tested the physical phenomenon known
as mechanical resonance on a traffic bridge,
which today are built to withstand such forces.
While a single I beam of steel was deflected
several feet in each direction by their oscillator,
and they reportedly felt the bridge shaking
many yards away, there were no �earth shattering�
effects.
It is worth indicating that, in the time of
the event undertaken by Tesla, buildings were
not built to withstand such resonance.
No. 2 Flexible Glass
Flexible glass is a legendary lost invention
from during the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius
Caesar.
As recounted by Isadore of Seville, the craftsman
who invented the technique brought before
Caesar a drinking bowl made of flexible glass,
and Caesar threw it to the floor, whereupon
the material dented, rather than shattering.
The inventor was able to simply repair the
dent with a small hammer.
After the inventor swore to the Emperor that
he alone knew the technique of manufacture,
Caesar had the man beheaded, fearing such
material could undermine the value of gold
and silver.
No. 1 Chronovision
Father Ernetti was known as an exorcist in
the Venice region, but more especially because
of his work on the �chronovision�.
In the 1960s he is said to have constructed
a time viewer in the 1950s, as part of a group
that supposedly included Nobel Laureate Enrico
Fermi and Wernher von Braun.
The machine was called the Chronovisor, and
could allegedly see and hear events of the
past.
According to an explanation by Ernetti, the
luminous energy and sound that objects emanate
are recorded in their environment, such that
proper use of the chronovisor could reconstruct
from said energy the images and sounds of
a specific set of events from the past.
Through the viewing screen of the chronovisor
Father Ernetti claimed to have witnessed a
performance in Rome in 169 BC of the now lost
tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin
poetry, Quintus Ennius.
He also claimed to have witnessed Christ dying
on the cross.
On his death bed in 1994, Father Ernetti said
that he attended a meeting of all the people
involved in the chronovision at the Vatican
during which the only existing machine was
destroyed.
