I remember reading Popular Mechanics magazine 65 or more years ago. They ran ads fairly often for someone's new invention that would let automobiles get 100 or more miles per gallon. I stopped reading that magazine long ago, so I don't know when they stopped publishing those ads, if ever, or even if the magazine still exists.
I had to check, and found out that Popular Mechanics is still being published 122 years after its first issue in 1902. I also read Popular Science (still going strong), Science Digest (it died in 1988), and Scientific American (still alive after its birth in 1845).
I remember wondering when I saw those adds for 100 mpg. auto mileage in Popular Mechanics why they were being publicized in a magazine instead of on the auto showroom floors. And now I know.
Way back in the 1980s, my mentor made a similar observation about all of the stories and ads in PM for generations, and nothing ever came to market from any of it. It was easy to become suspicious that something was awry. IMO, making the pages of PM meant that the inventors now had a bulls-eye on them, and they all disappeared from the scene, one after the other. Curious, that. :) But as I have also stated plenty, any novel technology has slim chances of making it to market, even if there was no organized suppression. In Brian's last years, he tried to educate the public on the yawning gulf between a working prototype and something ready for the market:
I remember reading Popular Mechanics magazine 65 or more years ago. They ran ads fairly often for someone's new invention that would let automobiles get 100 or more miles per gallon. I stopped reading that magazine long ago, so I don't know when they stopped publishing those ads, if ever, or even if the magazine still exists.
I had to check, and found out that Popular Mechanics is still being published 122 years after its first issue in 1902. I also read Popular Science (still going strong), Science Digest (it died in 1988), and Scientific American (still alive after its birth in 1845).
I remember wondering when I saw those adds for 100 mpg. auto mileage in Popular Mechanics why they were being publicized in a magazine instead of on the auto showroom floors. And now I know.
Thanks Bill. Fischer's engine was in Popular Mechanics (PM):
https://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach/page4?p=3573&viewfull=1#post3573
Way back in the 1980s, my mentor made a similar observation about all of the stories and ads in PM for generations, and nothing ever came to market from any of it. It was easy to become suspicious that something was awry. IMO, making the pages of PM meant that the inventors now had a bulls-eye on them, and they all disappeared from the scene, one after the other. Curious, that. :) But as I have also stated plenty, any novel technology has slim chances of making it to market, even if there was no organized suppression. In Brian's last years, he tried to educate the public on the yawning gulf between a working prototype and something ready for the market:
https://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate
This the toughest nut to crack on Earth, by far, for many reasons.