KeelyNet: the Meyer files of 2 January 1991

KeelyNet: MEYER1.ASC and MEYER2.ASC

Two text files posted on KeelyNet, the bulletin board of Vangard Sciences, Mesquite, Texas, dated 2 January 1991, both “courteously shared with Keelynet by Jim Shaffer”. Preserved at textfiles.com: MEYER1.ASC and MEYER2.ASC. KeelyNet put “ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS on duplicating, publishing or distributing” its files.

What they are

KeelyNet was the dial-up board Jerry W. Decker ran with Ron Barker and Chuck Henderson for Vangard Sciences, a group organised in Dallas in December 1986. It is the “computer bulletin board” Spy mentions in December 1991, and its files later moved to keelynet.com. These two are the board's first Meyer material and among the earliest records of Meyer's work spreading online, posted within weeks of the Electronics World + Wireless World article of January 1991 on the Griffin committee's demonstration.

• MEYER1.ASC (five pages) is an appeal to pass the news on, followed by most of the Electronics World piece “reprinted in part”, Keith Hindley's account of the demonstration with it, and a list of Meyer's patents with instructions for ordering copies from the Patent Office at $1.50 each.
• MEYER2.ASC (nine pages) is the text of US 4,936,961, Method for the Production of a Fuel Gas, typed out, with a closing appeal: holding onto information like this “only hurts ALL OF US”.

Jim Shaffer's appeal

The opening of MEYER1, as posted:

PLEASE PASS THIS   AROUND  TO  EVERYONE  WHO  WOULD  HAVE  EVEN  THE
SLIGHTEST INTEREST IN THIS SUBJECT.  ANYONE  WHO  DOES  AUTO REPAIR,
AUTO UPGRADES, ENGINEERING,  GARAGE  TINKERING WILL  FIND  THIS  AND
OTHER INFO TO COME VERY INTERESTING !

"Eye-witness accounts suggest that US inventor Stanley Meyer has
developed an electric cell which will split ordinary tap water into
hydrogen and oxygen  with  far  less  energy than that required by a
normal electrolytic cell."

   What does this mean to you ??? How will it affect YOUR life ???

      Let me tell you why this is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO YOU !

  This is just about the MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU HAVE EVER READ !

Think of the BILLIONS of U.S. dollars being spent on "stuff" that is
pumped out of the ground. We send  that  money  to ANOTHER COUNTRY !
(and they fight and kill each other and want more).

If this invention can be installed in YOUR EXISTING  CAR  you  would
not have to spend another DIME on GAS !

This would mean  that  those  BILLIONS of dollars would stay here in
the good old USA and be used for medical research, new technologies,
space exploration and lots of other things.

IT WOULD MAKE YOUR LIFE SO MUCH BETTER !

Besides getting rid of lots of pollution. You could run the two most
power hungry devices  in  your  house   (your  Air  Conditioner  and
Refrigerator) on a system using this device... The applications are
endless !!!!

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT ! I CAN'T SAY THIS ENOUGH !

STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND GET THIS INFORMATION AND OTHER DATA
THAT IS TO COME TO SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH IT ! TAKE A DAY
OFF WORK, TURN OFF THE TV FOR A FEW DAYS !
PASS IT OUT,  PRINT  IT  OUT  AND SEND IT TO RADIO STATIONS, FAX IT,
UPLOAD IT TO EVERY BBS YOU CAN THINK OF !

You know the OIL companies (greedy  !)  will fight like DOGS to keep
us from using this technology ! DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN !  MAKE THIS
INFORMATION PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE !!!  GET IT OUT THERE ! DON'T EXPECT
SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT FOR YOU !

You can see the following article in full and a color picture of the
device by visiting your local library and picking up this magazine.

The patent list

The list as MEYER1 gives it. The heading says “up to Sep, 1991”, although the file is dated 2 January 1991; either the list was updated after posting or the date is a slip.

Meyer Patents: (up to Sep, 1991)

  4936961 - Method for the production of a fuel gas (get this)
  4826581 - Controlled.. production  of  thermal  energy  from gases
  4798661 - Gas generator voltage control circuit (get this)
  4613304 - Gas electrical hydrogen generator (get this)

There are others  of  his,  which  do  not typically  apply  to  his
"generator":

  4613779 - Power isolation device
  4465455 - Startup and shutdown for a hydrogen burner
  4421474 - Hydrogen gas burner
  4389981 - Hydrogen gas injector
  4275950 - Light Lens
  4265224 - Solar storage system
  3970070 - Solar heating system

There are several ways to obtain these patents, but the easiest one
gets them sent directly to your door.
The Patent office  will  send  you  each patent for $1.50 each, post
paid!  If you get the above 4 patents, thats $6!

It's very simple, you just put your  check  in  an  envelope,  put a
piece of notebook  paper in it with your name and  address  and  the
numbers of the patents you want to:

                 Commissioner of Patents & Trademarks
                        Washington  DC  20231

That's all there  is  to  it!  You really need all four because bits
and peices of details are spread  over  all  four  patents!   Please
don't let this get buried ! PASS THIS INFO OUT !!!

Copies of the Patents will be scanned and made into  GIF  files when
they are available. Further information is comming so keep your eyes
peeled but don't let that stop you from passing out this info !!!

Against the record

• “Steve Meyer did appear to have discovered”. The reprinted Hindley passage names the wrong twin; the inventor is Stan. The slip is the magazine's: it is in the Electronics World text as the archive holds it.
• “Granted under Section 101” and the hardware “examined experimentally by US Patent Office experts”. This is Hindley's claim, repeated from Meyer, and it is not how patents are granted. Section 101 is the part of the patent law that says what kind of invention can be patented and requires it to be useful; a grant is an examiner's legal finding on the papers, not a laboratory confirmation, and the Patent Office does not run years of tests on the hardware.
• “A protegee' of the Advanced Energy Institute”. Leonard Holihan's Advanced Energy Research Institute, whose praise of Meyer is on camera in the 1991 Colorado Springs report.