Category File
Automotive Technology
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Death of Stanley MeyerTwo years before he died, an Ohio court examined Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell with three expert witnesses, found it was ordinary electrolysis, and ruled he had committed gross and egregious fraud. The suppression story almost never mentions the trial.
- The "Automobile" as a Soul-CatcherThis theory claimed that travel by automobile at speeds beyond horse motion disrupted the bond between body and soul, leaving a person spiritually lagging behind, damaged, or altered. It belongs to the larger history of early motor-car anxiety, in which speed, dust, noise, danger, and mechanical independence were all treated as threats to the natural order. The language of soul-loss was not a standard engineering criticism but a folkloric and moral way of describing the shock of unprecedented motion.
- The Death of Tom OgleTom Ogle was a young El Paso inventor who drew national attention in 1977 after publicity around a fuel-vapor system that reportedly allowed a large Ford sedan to travel roughly 200 miles on less than two gallons of gasoline. His invention was later described in U.S. Patent 4,177,779, a fuel-economy system for an internal combustion engine. Ogle died in El Paso on August 19, 1981, at age twenty-six. Later accounts described the death as involving alcohol and Darvon, while conspiracy-oriented retellings argued that Ogle’s work threatened major automotive and oil interests and that his death should be viewed as part of a suppression pattern.