Inventors and creators have existed since time immemorial. Many of the inventions greatly simplified people's lives, and today it is difficult even to imagine the modern world without them. However, there were also inventions that could radically change the world, but did not reach a wide range of consumers.
1. Cloudbuster
Sounds like turn on the car to rain. Once the scientist Wilhelm Reich was very upset when, due to a drought in Maine, where he lived, the entire blueberry crop in his garden died. As a result, he invented a certain machine called "Cloudbuster". Although it sounds like science fiction, his invention could supposedly cause real rain. According to an article in the BangorDaily News newspaper, whose correspondent was present at the first launch of Cloudbuster, forecasters promised clear weather that day, and there was not a single cloud in the sky in the area.
A few hours after Reich set up and started the car, thunderclouds formed in the sky and about 0.64 centimeters of precipitation fell. Someone in the government clearly did not like this technology, since Reich's study was closed, and all developments and prototypes were withdrawn. The second Cloudbuster trial never took place.
2. Nuclear energy for domestic use
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Nuclear power is commonly used to generate large amounts of energy on an industrial scale.
However, if there were mini-reactors capable of generating small amounts of nuclear power, then entire communities around the world could have electricity for virtually an infinite amount of time.
When such a technology was already ready to enter the world market, investors suddenly lost interest in it, and the invention was completely forgotten. It was assumed that this invention would look like a small shed, which would be installed in small towns and settlements. This could provide many people with unlimited energy for pennies.
3. Digital slot code
This invention has been considered "lost" since 1999. This encoding of information could revolutionize the storage and capabilities of modern computers and mobile devices. Dutch electronics developer Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot demonstrated how he fit 16 full-length films (without loss of quality) on one memory chip in … 64 kilobytes.
When buyers and investors lined up for this incredible invention, Sloot died under suspicious circumstances, days before he was supposed to hand over the original source code.
4. Fully electric vehicle (not hybrid)
In the late 1990s, General Motors was the first to manufacture and sell all-electric vehicles. While this may not sound particularly impressive given the current high volume of hybrid vehicles, such a vehicle was unique back then. However, the GM EV1 was never successful (only 800 were sold).
It was officially stated that customers were unhappy with the car's batteries, so the company decided to completely abandon the model and continue to produce conventional gasoline cars. It is believed that General Motors would have sold many more electric vehicles, but phased them out due to strong pressure from the major oil companies.
5. Treatment of cardiovascular diseases
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among people around the world. It turns out that there was a technology in the United States that was capable of treating any kind of heart disease. Successful cases of the cure of hopeless patients were recorded. But such developments have discredited modern doctors and their official methods of treatment so much that the invention was banned.
6. Biofuels from hemp
Hemp is a fiber of hemp stalks. A huge amount of ethanol can be obtained from it. But since hemp is associated with marijuana, corn is the main source of ethanol today. However, much more ethanol can be produced from hemp, and with much less harm to the environment.
7. Ogle carburetor
Any car owner would like to drive as long as possible on one tank of fuel, and modern hybrid cars are already showing very good results in terms of economy. Unfortunately, automakers still haven't achieved even partial successes for mechanic Tom Ogle. In the 1970s, this inventor created a new type of carburetor like never seen before.
Although Ogle's invention was successfully tested and showed results in 48 kilometers per liter of gasoline, it never began to be produced on a commercial basis. The revolutionary engine worked by injecting gasoline under high pressure into a cloud of steam, which was then injected into an internal combustion chamber. As a result, Oglu was refused a patent for his invention, and he took it with him to the grave.
8. Rife's device
In 1934, Royal Rife created a machine to treat cancer, which was considered a virus at the time. In essence, Rife created a laser beam that "burned out" infected cancer cells. It seems to sound like an invention from a science fiction novel. But 14 documented cases of complete cure of patients with end-stage cancer suggest otherwise. However, when Rife refused to cooperate with the American Medical Association, she did her best to discredit the innovative treatment. In the end, despite Rife's successes, everyone refused to cooperate with him.
9. Car on the water
Surprisingly, there are actually dozens of working prototype vehicles that can run on water. And at the same time, no automaker around the world is engaged in such developments. One of the most well-documented and well-known of these vehicles was the Stan Meyer buggy. This magnificent invention could travel 43 kilometers on… 1 liter of water.
Meyer's close acquaintances said that the inventor was threatened, forcing him to sell the patent and stop his research in the field of cars running on water. But Mayer refused and soon died. Although all of his colleagues and friends unanimously declared that Mayer was poisoned because of his refusal to obey the big oil companies, the diagnosis of "brain aneurysm" was officially made.
10. Free energy (Nikola Tesla)
Nikola Tesla was perhaps one of the most famous inventors in the world. Although everything that was created by a genius did not become revolutionary, free electricity for the whole world could certainly change the whole world. After successful (and well-documented) tests of wireless power transmission, Tesla stated that he is developing prototypes that amplify this phenomenon and will be able to provide power to large areas from a single tower. Although most at the time believed that this was possible, the inventor was stopped funding, and his laboratory with a partially assembled prototype and its blueprints mysteriously burned to the ground.