A magnetic field spinning 1,000 times a second, with nothing spinning: Stan Meyer's EPG auger

Stan Meyer's Electrical Particle Generator moves magnetized gas round a closed non-magnetic tube past pickup coils (Figure 1-11, © 1981). At Deer Creek in 1985 he added a twist, literally: put an auger, a spiral divider, inside the tube, push the gas through it, and the gas and its magnetic field spin as they travel. "If I would take and put a thousand twists on this spiral corridor… if I was moving the gas around this closed loop system in one second, how many times would that magnetic field spin?" His drawing Fig. 26A (© 1981) shows the spinning fields and the spiral divider. The arithmetic: a thousand turns a second is a thousand cycles a second in a pickup coil, one kilohertz. Spinning a magnetic field with nothing spinning is real: Nikola Tesla did it electrically with his rotating magnetic field, patented in 1888, and it runs every induction motor. Stan's version does it with moving gas, which leaves the question his drawings don't answer with a number: what does pushing the gas cost? Sources on stanslegacy.com.

About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.

Sources

• Stan Meyer · Deer Creek, Ohio · 1985
• Stan Meyer · Fig. 26A: Attenuating Gas-Field · © 1981
• Stan Meyer · Figure 1-11: Electrical Particle Generator · © 1981
• Stan Meyer · Fig. 26B: Pickup Coil Configurations · © 1981
• Stan Meyer, Deer Creek, Ohio, 1985, at 2:00:11 and 2:01:05 — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, Figure 1-11, Electrical Particle Generator, and Figs. 26A and 26B, © 1981 — stanslegacy.com
• Nikola Tesla, US 381,968, Electro-Magnetic Motor (1 May 1888)