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Press coverage
What the press made of the water fuel cell while Meyer was alive — transcribed from the pages, with the citation needed to find the original.
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A car that runs on water?
1981 · held in full
The wire story that put the water fuel cell in print for the first time the archive knows of. Meyer is forty-one, of Grove City, testing the device in his garage laboratory, promis...
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A new energy source – on tap
1995 · held in full
A full page on Griffin at home in Bosham: fifty thousand pounds of his own money, eight visits to the workshop in Ohio, a plan to convert a Thames pleasure cruiser, and a pledge fr...
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An “international news release” on the Water Fuel Cell
1992 · held in full
A diary paragraph in the London Independent: a leaflet about the Water Fuel Cell, "impressively detailed diagrams included", handed to a colleague at an energy conference, with its...
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A penny a mile – too true to be good?
1991 · held in full
Fifteen months on, the same columnist returns to Meyer while writing about Roger Billings’s LaserCell, and says plainly what was suspected about the delay: “Oil interests in the St...
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Did Stanley Meyer die because he knew how to turn water into fuel?
1998 · held in full
Four months after his death, a British national daily gives him a double-page spread and a headline that is still being repeated. It is the earliest national print of the poisoning...
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Engineers Still Seek Water Fuel Cell Secret
1961 · held in full
An Associated Press motoring piece from 1961, twenty years before Meyer, with "water fuel cell" in the headline. It is about the hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell, not about splitting wate...
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Engine which runs on water
1993 · held in full
A short news item on the morning of the week Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin read Meyer’s paper at Southampton. It is the local press notice of the lecture the archive already holds in...
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Fair program to include water-powered vehicle
1985 · held in full
The Darke County Agricultural Society agrees to put the water fuel cell in front of the grandstand at the 1985 Great Darke County Fair. Meyer had already been to the fair twice wit...
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Fill the tank with water
1994 · held in full
The Ukiah Daily Journal's guide to SEER '94, the Solar Energy Expo and Rally at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds, 15–17 July 1994. A photograph of Meyer's dune buggy, lettered WATER...
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Free energy for ever?
1991 · held in full
A UK team — Professor Michael Laughton of Queen Mary College, Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, and research chemist Dr Keith Hindley — watch Meyer split tap water at his home in Grove...
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‘H’ and ‘O’ start ‘hokum’ – fear that this fuelling may be fooling
1991 · held in full
The week after, and the mood has turned. Donald Walton asks the paper to print that he is no longer connected with Meyer’s invention in any way. The column also dates the Colorado...
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Healthy fuel for people and cars
1991 · held in full
An opinion column half about the water fuel cell and half about giving up meat. Its value is one line of arithmetic: Meyer’s system is “a labor of 17 years, presently includes 24 m...
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“I’m at war. It’s not military. It’s economic.”
1984 · held in full
The AP story that gave the work its most quoted line. Thirty patent applications, $195 million sought, and two outside voices: a Battelle photochemist who says the field is worth t...
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Is the miner worth more?
1992 · held in full
Donald P. Walton, the Charminster electronics engineer who had once planned to market Meyer's cell in Britain, writes to the Echo about the pit closures of 1992. It took him "about...
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King Charles II, Stanley Meyer, water fuel car and Adam Smith
2024 · held in full
A Nigerian newspaper column, published on the anniversary of Meyer's death, that uses him as its example of an inventor destroyed by 'enigmatic cabals' before turning to Nigerian g...
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Mighty small
1990 · held in full
The first of three columns by the same writer in a Dorset evening paper, and the one that names Meyer’s English partners: Donald P. Walton of Charminster, Bournemouth, an electroni...
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Poole firm in race to prove new cell
1989 · held in full
The earliest of the archive's Bournemouth cuttings, eight months before the first Greenwatch column. F & S Marketing of Hamworthy, Poole — Anthony Harvard-Bailey and the electronic...
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Sidney chapter to host guest speaker
1987 · held in full
A Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship supper notice, and the fullest list the archive holds of what Meyer said he had built before the water fuel cell: heart monitors, a Validato...
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Something smells Fishy in Giuliani’s energy plan
2007 · held in full
Nine years after his death, Meyer turns up in a American newspaper column as shorthand for a kind of story — the suppressed inventor — that the columnist is using to mock a preside...
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Stanley A. Meyer to speak at Greenville Creek, Bradford
1982 · held in full
Two church notices for the same Sunday. Meyer was the guest speaker at the ten o’clock worship hour at Greenville Creek United Church of Christ, Bradford, on 21 November 1982, befo...
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Stanley Meyer's and Walter Jenkins's water cars
2018 · held in full
The NET-Journal's report of Ulf Dahlström's talk at its Königstein congress in September 2018: three years' work with Stan, a drive in the water car, a 1992 film of Stan explaining...
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The strange case of the early electric cars
2024 · held in full
A Scottish local columnist's history of the electric car, from Robert Davidson of Aberdeen in 1839 to Henry Ford, ends with the inventors who "tried to lead the way" away from comb...
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The Wight Stuff
1990 · held in full
James Wight, who filmed Meyer's work and promoted it, answers the Independent's gossip column, which had called the water car the latest "car runs on water" scam. His correction is...
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Universal solvent
1994 · held in full
A paragraph in a Minnesota environment column: a group called the YES Party says running cars on water is "already feasible", that water fuel cell technology was "recently showcase...
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Water is a key to addressing global warming
2020 · held in full
A San Angelo resident answers a reader on global warming with water: split it for hydrogen, run a model car on a water fuel cell kit, and consider "Inventor Stanley Meyer", who "de...
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Water-powered car drove oil barons mad
2007 · held in full
A Cumbrian local paper announces a Truthseekers meeting at the Sands Arts Centre in Grange-over-Sands: two films, and a talk and demonstration of "water power technology" by John B...