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Fleming showed that a condenser cancels a coil's inductance 'only… for one particular frequency', and that a leaky condenser moves that frequency. Meyer's water moves as it gasses...
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Meyer used his chokes 'to aid amp restriction'. Fleming explains why that works for a sudden pulse and not for a steady current: under an electromotive blow, a conductor's inductan...
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Meyer's 'resonant charging choke' is a real textbook component, and he quoted its dictionary definition himself. Steinmetz wrote in 1900 that 'choking coils, or reactive coils, can...
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Why an 1896 textbook belongs next to Meyer's circuit, and the first comparison: his pulsing transformer is what Fleming calls an induction coil, and the iron core does what Fleming...
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Meyer calls the water cell a capacitor, and so does Fleming's Leyden jar — but Meyer also says the water enters the circuit as 'resistance'. Fleming solved exactly that case, a con...
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A University of Latvia laboratory builds the circuit family Meyer's patents describe — a bifilar pulse transformer and a blocking diode feeding the cell — and measures it: the cell...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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A Tuesday hospital list. Three people were treated at Highlands Community Hospital over the weekend, and the last of them is “Stanley Meyer, 21, of Columbus”, hurt diving at Rocky...
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The wedding, at Olmsted Community Church on Saturday 15 June 1963 — the earliest of Meyer’s three marriages, and the one no account of his life has carried until now. The clipping...
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The archive has always had it that Stanley Meyer married twice — Donna, and then Marilyn, who is the wife named in his obituary. His own sister and niece said so on camera in 2019....
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Seven pages from the Grandview Heights yearbooks: Stan in the class group of 1957 and 1958, in the reserve football team, and on the senior portrait page with his activities line....
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The court record of Willis and Harper v. Meyer, the 1993 dealership suit that produced the 1996 finding of “gross and egregious fraud”: the case sheet and all 103 docket entries, f...
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Meyer’s last published paper, transcribed in full from nine photographs of the printed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on New Energy: the cover, the contents, and...
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Brian Coates of Florence, Alabama telephoned Charles Hughes in 2012 and recorded seventy minutes of it. Hughes is the man of Marlane Drive: he gave Meyer a room, a basement and a d...
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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 cover sheet of a nine-page urgent fax to the Belgian investor Philippe Vandemoortele, asking for US$21,000 at once to start core samples and land acquisition for the WFC Develo...
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Four photographs from the Document of Records binder: the cover label, and the primary coil bobbin, secondary coil bobbin and terminal end block of chapter four, drawn in Delrin wi...
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A 2021 Russian paper in The Scientific Heritage that reaches Meyer by way of hydrogen storage and the Joule heating of electrolysis, and whose two references are both his. Translat...
