Inventors and creators have been on this planet for centuries. Ever since someone figured out how to use fire, inventions have continually made our lives easier and more convenient. Take the same phone that allows you to take humanity with you anywhere in the world. And yet, not all inventions that could turn the world upside down became known to the broad masses. Here are ten life-changing inventions that we will most likely never see.
Raincaller
Agree, it would be nice to be able to summon rain on command. Wilhelm Reich, the scientist who noticed the drought affecting the blueberry crop in Maine, created an invention called the Cloudbuster. Let's call him the "raincaller". At least that's what the legend says.
According to the Bangor Daily News, which first described the operation of this machine, at the time of its launch there were no forecasts of possible precipitation. Within a few hours after the Reich set up and started the car, storm clouds appeared and 0.64 centimeters of rain fell.
Perhaps Reich's technology posed a threat to some government institutions, as his research was curtailed and his work and prototypes were taken away. The second test of the car was never carried out. However, if the Raincaller were developed, food shortages around the world would be over.
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Home nuclear power
Nuclear power has long been seen as a method of bringing large amounts of energy to households around the world. With the ability to use nuclear energy a little at a time, entire communities could get an inexhaustible amount of electricity for a long time.
When this technology was on the verge of entering the market phase of production, investors suddenly lost interest in it and its blueprints were lost in secluded drawers of some office. The installation could be in a small garden shed in the city center.
It could become an energy center for the entire area, supplying energy to several blocks at once. Such an installation would provide people with endless electricity and would save a lot on electricity bills.
Slot digital code
This invention has indeed been "missing" since 1999. Thanks to advances in modern technology, this coding method could revolutionize the spatial and storage capacity of modern computers and mobile devices.
The name of the Dutch inventor Romke was Jan Bernhard Sloot. With the help of his technology, the data could be substantially condensed. The illustration that simultaneously tested and marketed his invention was the compression of a full-blown movie to 8 kilobytes in size.
The decryption process itself took up 370 megabytes. Sloot was able to demonstrate the success of his project by simultaneously playing 16 full films from a single 64K chip. As buyers and investors lined up for his incredible invention, Sloot died under suspicious circumstances just days before the source code was handed over.
Fully electric vehicle (not hybrid)
In the late 1990s, General Motors was the first to market an all-electric vehicle. While this is not nearly as impressive now, given the rich list of hybrid vehicles on display today, this vehicle was the first of its kind.
Even with the modern relatively liberal approach to combining gas engines with electric ones, there is still no popular car that does not require gasoline at all. GM EV1 wasn't going to be successful either; GM built just 800 of these to begin with.
However, according to reports from the time, GM believed that customers would be unhappy with the battery's energy and ditched its entire line of electric vehicles in favor of more advanced gasoline engines. There is a belief that while GM could have sold quite a few electric vehicles, the real reason for abandoning them was strong pressure from oil companies.
Treatment of cardiovascular diseases
As cardiovascular disease has become the leading killer of women around the world (and of men, of course), it is a little creepy to realize that one day there might be a working cure. This is one of those inventions that got rejected because it went against the current cardiovascular treatment regimen of the time.
According to the American Medical Association, this discredits not only the treatment itself but also the doctors behind it. Their statement openly denied that there were documented cases of heart disease that were cured by "a unified theory of human cardiovascular disease." However, some heart failure patients who tried this treatment reported, oddly enough, that their condition worsened.
Hemp biofuel
Cannabis, which is mistaken for marijuana, has always had a bad reputation with those who did not understand its true benefits. A huge amount of ethanol was extracted from it. But as cannabis began to be mistaken for marijuana, ethanol was extracted from corn. However, a hemp ethanol plant can be much more efficient than a corn plant and be less harmful to the environment.
Ogle carburetor
Anyone would like to travel more kilometers on a single tank, and modern hybrid cars have done a great job at this. Unfortunately, they don't come close to the documented success of mechanic Tom Ogle.
In the 1970s, this inventor created a new type of carburetor like never seen before. Like today, gas and oil companies then had a monopoly on the market. Although the Ogle carburetor has been tested and shown to be able to travel up to 48 kilometers per liter, its invention was not produced commercially.
The revolutionary component worked by injecting gasoline under pressure into a cloud of steam, which was then introduced into an internal combustion chamber. Licensing issues and sticks in the wheels ensured that this carb never went into mass production, and Ogle took design information with him to his grave.
Rife's device
In 1934, Royal Rife created a machine to fight cancer. At the time, cancer was thought to be related to the virus. Therefore, Rife created a laser beam capable of attacking certain infected cells and destroying them.
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This treatment has left behind 14 documented cases of treatment for patients with end-stage cancer. However, when Rife refused to cooperate with the head of the AMA, the organization made every effort to discredit and shut down this approach.
Now, apparently, there is no documentation to conclusively prove that AMA was directly involved in the fight against this treatment. Rife accused the AMA of conspiring with other medical organizations. But there doesn't appear to be any independent confirmation that his treatment worked.
Transport on water
Surprisingly, there are dozens of working prototypes of vehicles that can run on water. Of course, you are unlikely to see any automaker taking them seriously.
One of the most famous cars of this type was the buggy, designed by Stan Meyer. This amazing invention could travel up to 43 kilometers per liter of water. Colleagues close to Meyer say he was under intense pressure to sell the patent for his creation and stop researching water machines.
But he refused. And although the same colleagues and friends later shouted that Meyer was poisoned for refusing to obey the big oil companies, it is known for certain that Meyer suddenly died of a brain aneurysm.
Free energy (Nikola Tesla)
Nikola Tesla was perhaps one of the most famous inventors in the world. Although nothing created by his mind became revolutionary, free electricity for the whole world has captivated conspiracy theorists more than once. After a successful (and well-documented) demonstration of wireless transmission of electricity, Tesla made it clear that he was developing prototypes that could amplify this phenomenon and power huge areas from a single tower.
At that time, many believed that this was quite possible. But funding for the project did not lead to anything, and Tesla's laboratory with parts of the prototype and plans mysteriously burned to the ground. This case is perhaps the most mysterious and well-documented of all the suppressed and strangled inventions that you will never see, and conspiracy theorists often return to it.
ILYA KHEL