> Hi John et al!
>
> Some guy in Denver, Colorado I believe, a foreign name that I can't
> recall, something like Guielmo or such. He claimed to have green
> pellets..
>
> What an interesting connection John!! Are these hydride pellets
> green?
I looked and found it.http://www.keelynet.com/energy/garrett.htm
For years we have heard stories about a demonstration of a car that ran on
water here in the
Dallas area. Never was there any text substantiation or other documents
relating details. Many of
our friends had also heard the story with hints of a green pill or powder
that was added to the
water while in the gas tank that somehow made it combustible with no
further actions taken
beyond the simple ignition via a high intensity spark.
About three years ago, our friends Howard and Joanne Bond sent us a short
newspaper clipping
describing the demonstration. The article indicates a patent was secured
for the "something" that
made the car run on water. That has kept me inspired all this time and
made me keep an eye and
ear out for additional information.
The basic story as I heard it was that the inventor of the traffic light,
Dad Garrett, failed to get a
patent on the idea. Every city adopted his traffic light invention for
which Dad Garrett received
little in return. He and his son Charles invented other devices, among
them a means of making an
automobile engine run on water, but I never heard of a patent issued on
this.
To promote the discovery, a public demonstration was held at White Rock
Lake in Dallas
somewhere around 1934. The event was covered by news media of the day and
we understand
there was a Pathe' or Movietone newsreel. An automobile was towed to the
lake site. We do not
know the type of automobile or whether it was a 6 or 8 cylinder engine. A
gallon of water was
removed from the lake and put into the gas tank. The car was then started
and driven around the
lake with no problems.
Several months back, I decided to do whatever it would take to dig up this
patent, if it existed. I
knew from the article that a Dad Garrett and his son Charles had invented
this "something". I did
not know the year of this alledged patent and so had to go through several
volumes looking for
anything relating to Garrett. Sometimes inventors assign their invention
to companies and that
posed an additional problem if such was the case.
I finally did find a patent issued to Charles H. Garrett on July 2, 1935
and called an
ELECTROLYTIC CARBURETOR. The number was 2,006,676. Since the microfiches
only go
back to about the mid-40's, I had no option except to order it from the
patent office. A letter was
sent to them with $2.00 ($1.50 for the patent and .50 for mailing costs).
After almost 3 months, I
got a letter saying that patents had now gone up to $3.00. So, another
letter with the extra $1.00
FINALLY got me the patent about 3 weeks later.
I have been calling it a HYDROLYTIC CARBURETOR because of WHAT it is
combusting and
have been totally amazed at the simplicity of the technology. Several of
our associates have
received advance copies of it and are quite impressed, saying they will
build and test it. We too will
test it and openly share our findings.
Please feel free to pass this file around.
The newspaper articles are included in this file for the exact information
as published from the
1935 demonstration to the latest modern report of which I am aware.
Bob Aldrich of Survivor BBS in LA gave us additional patent numbers
pertaining to the Horvath
patents for electrolysis to power an automobile engine. Of those patents,
the Garrett patent was
NEVER listed as a "prior art" patent. That is quite odd as it PRECEDES
several of the points
made by the Horvath patent, not to mention being SO SIMPLE. Experiments
will be carried out on
the Garrett design and we and our fellow experimenters will share our
findings for those
interested. The potential is ENORMOUS.
What follows is the story confirming that no green pill was involved in
the process and which
Howard and Joanne Bond sent to KeelyNet.
Dallas Morning News - 1992 - Long Format
Column : TEXAS SKETCHES
Headline : Early inventor builds water-powered auto
Date : September 6, 1992
Section : TEXAS & SOUTHWEST
Page : 48A
Edition : HOME FINAL
Author : A.C. Greene
Word Count : 398
Text :
The late Henry "Dad" Garrett was a multi-talented Dallas inventor
with a bent for
electrical contrivances, and in 1935, he and his son, C.H. Garrett,
patented and
exhibited an automobile that ran on water -- actually, on hydrogen
after the water was
broken down by electrolysis.
Dad Garrett was already famous for his work. In 1920 he set up WRR in
Dallas, the
world's first municipal radio station, and was its first announcer.
He was the first man
to build a radio in his car, and he developed radio transmission from
the car for police
use. He also invented an automatic electric traffic signal, possibly
the nation's first.
Eugene P. Aldredge recalled the Garretts: "I had rented a small
office on the seventh
floor of the Allen building in downtown Dallas for my letter service,
and one of my
early customers was the eighteenth floor National Electric Signal Co.
owned by Dad
Garrett and son C.H..
"I was informed that the two were experimenting with an automobile
that used water
for fuel, that they carried on their experiments in a workshop
adjacent to their office
on the top floor, and that two separate explosions (from dangerous
hydrogen) had
nearly blown a hole in the roof of the building...Neither was hurt."
On September 8, 1935, The Dallas Morning News first announced that
the water-fuel
concept worked -- at least it worked for "several minutes," the
article reported.
A few months later, Pathe' News filmed the car driving along Garland
Road with the
driver stopping at White Rock Lake to fill the fuel tank with water
before cruising off.
In 1970, Karen Klinefelter wrote, "Aptly enough, the film was shown
on Pathe's
Stranger than Fiction feature program."
C.H. Garrett said the only items needed to convert a gasoline-engine
auto to a water
burner was an electrolytic carburetor and installation of a generator
of double normal
capacity for the breaking down of the water.
He claimed instant starts in any weather, no fire hazards, cooler
operation and plenty
of power and speed. The car was not marketed, and no one seems to
know its ultimate
destiny. Both Garretts died a number of years ago.
[A.C. Greene is an author and Texas historian who lives in Salado.]
>
>
> ---John Berry wrote:
> >
> > Wasn't there a hydrogen powered car that used green pellets?
> >
> > Jerry W. Decker wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks!
> > >
> > > This was shared yesterday by a friend, it deals with hydride
> pellets for
> > > the controlled release of hydrogen from water to use as fuel,
> check it
> > > out;
> > >
> > > http://www.powerball.net/inside/index.html
> > >
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