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456 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
of-concept device, he was expected to somehow without funding take it
beyond that stage through the very expensive stage to a commercial product.
A final product must be engineered and fine-tuned until it works consistently
enough to be mass-produced. Today, the Moray brothers estimate
it would take more than $14 million just to build the parts used in a
Radiant Energy laboratory model (which is not as refined as a production
model); they say that high-priced personnel, expensive test equipment and
huge capital outlay would be needed.
Instead of a factory producing Radiant Energy units, Henry Moray had
one model which he tore apart—"cannibalized"—to re-use its expensive
parts whenever he built an improved model.
Similar in another way to fellow independent inventors throughout the
century, Moray's experiences with would-be financiers was discouraging.
Moray Products Company, for example, seemed to be going well until
Henry found out that the company's treasury was being pilfered from
within. Stocks were being sold without benefit to either himself or the
company; the thieves kept no records of those stock down-payments and
also ignored offers from investors who would have exposed the pilfering.
Henry Moray took these associates to court. The costs bankrupted him,
and the company broke apart.
To add to his distress, Henry's closest friend, W. H. Lovesy of Utah
Oil Refining Company, died under mysterious circumstances in a one-car
accident. A hitchhiker who was never identified walked away from the crash.
Hearing the family talk about so many troubling incidents for so many
years, John Moray was bound to grow up with a grimly determined set to
his jaw. From childhood John lived with the expectation that he would
continue the work his father began. As a boy he would be rewarded for
good behaviour by being allowed to go downstairs to the basement laboratory
in the evening and watch his father experiment. (In 1939 Henry
built a 50-foot by 60-foot laboratory with four rooms above it, and the
workshop was moved outside of the house permanently).
Around 1950, Henry and his grown sons sat down to brainstorm a plan
for financing Radiant Energy development. Richard volunteered to go to
Canada and invest in land, and Henry and John stayed in Salt Lake City.
Richard and his family found it more difficult than expected—battling
bureaucracy in British Columbia in an attempt to develop a subdivision
was not always successful. John had planned to go into electrical engineering,
but found that the University of Utah physics department was
more flexible in allowing him to choose courses.
Nearing the end of his lifetime, Henry Moray became "more and more
amazed," wrote John, "for he had never believed he could really be
stopped." Dr. T. Henry Moray passed on in l974.