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484 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
at marketing a car was in the late 30s. He was stopped by the Securities
and Exchange Commission, and it was not until his company withered
away that he was given a clean "bill of health." In the mid-70s at the age
of seventy-eight he again tried to put his unique designs on the road.
Ultrasonic Fuel Systems
With the advent of the fuel crisis of 1973 there were a number of experimenters
who found solutions involving the use of ultrasonic fuel systems.
Much of this work involved using sonic transducers to "vibrate" existing
fuels down to much smaller particles. This procedure simply increased the
surface area of the fuel and made it work more efficiently. Using a magneto-strictive
or piezo-electric vibrator, conical or cylindrical cones were
used at from twenty to forty thousand vibrations per second. An increase
in fuel mileage of at least 20 percent was expected of these units.
Eric Cottell was one of the first persons to proclaim the fact that water
could be mixed with gas and used as fuel with these units. His customers
had been using his commercial units to emulsify foods, paints, and cosmetics
for some time. When the word suddenly got out that the super fine
S-onized water would mix perfectly with up to 70 percent oil or gas, there
was congratulations from many sides (June 17, 1974, Newsweek). Later
there was nothing but silence again.
Later in 1975, Cottell was interviewed again and explained that Detroit
was so myopic that they would probably turn down even the wheel if it were
a newly offered invention. Because installations of his reactors was so simple,
Cottell ran several of his own cars on a water-gas mixture. He explained
that an ultra-sonic unit caused internal stresses so great in gasoline that the
molecules can actually absorb water to become a new type of fuel.
Super Mileage from Fuel Vaporization
L. Mills Beam developed a simple heat exchange carburetor back in 1920.
In principle it was nothing more than a method of using the hot exhaust
gases of an engine to vaporize the liquid gas being burned. Using simple
logic Beam reasoned that raw gas going through a normal carburetor simply
could not be atomized with high efficiency. As a result there was a
waste of fuel when microscopic droplets burned instead of exploded. This,
of course, created unnecessary heat and inefficiency.
Since he was easily able to double and triple the gas mileage of the cars
he tested, it was not long before Beam was offered a settlement and percentage
fee for the rights to his device. Accepting the offer, he never again
saw any attempt to market his device or the parties who gained control of
his device.