Before the water car: Stan Meyer's solar silo on Marlane Drive, 1975 to 1979

Before the water car, Stan Meyer rang a stranger's doorbell on Marlane Drive, near Grove City, Ohio, and the family remember his first words: "The Lord sent me here to this home." He stayed for years, and built a 21-foot solar silo in their side yard, baking thousands of resin light guides in their kitchen. Ohio offered money if he handed the state his patent. He refused. The local paper covered it five times, and the photographs are on the site.

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 · house meeting, New Zealand · 1989
• Stan Meyer in the storage cavity · The Grove City Record · March 1976
• Stan Meyer · The Grove City Record · April 1976
• The silo frame · The Grove City Record · July 1976
• Stan Meyer on the base · The Grove City Record · July 1976
• Stan Meyer · light guide lenses, figs. 11 and 12
• Building the reflection cone · The Grove City Record · November 1979
• The Grove City Record, 18 Mar, 29 Apr, 29 Jul and 21 Oct 1976, and 29 Nov 1979 — stanslegacy.com
• The Columbus Dispatch, 2007: the doorbell, the kitchen, and "the invention never worked" — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, New Zealand 1989, part 1: Washington 1965 at 17:00, "build the system in a garage" at 14:16 — stanslegacy.com
• US 4,275,950, Light Guide Lens, 1981: 161 sheets, 371 figures
• Episode 18, The Solar Silo — stanslegacy.com/episodes/the-solar-silo