List of inventions that radically changed a person's life, can continue indefinitely. Take the same smartphone, the Internet or a cure for colds. How would we live if all this were invented, and then immediately destroyed or lost?
In fact, there have been many such cases.
AdMe.ru tells about 8 great inventions that could turn the world if it were not lost.
1. Tools Stradivarius
Today the tools of the Italian master Antonio Stradivari are literally worth their weight in gold. His violas, cellos and guitars are exchanged for houses, cars and precious stones. And the price of each of the violins can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
All because of the inimitable sound quality of instruments, which has no equal, and the incredible rarity of each of the products.
By the way, about the rarity. The manufacturing technique was the family secret of Stradivari, but after the master died, the secret of manufacture went with him. To date, less than 600 such tools have reached.
2. The Ray of Death
In 1930, Nikola Tesla created a "ray of death", which he called Tele Force .
According to the scientist, the device generated an energy clot with the help of which it was possible to destroy airplanes, equipment and even an entire army within a radius of 322 km.
However, after Tesla talked about his creation, the device was tried repeatedly to steal. Therefore, the scientist destroyed the prototype and hid all the drawings. Many argue that he did this when he realized that such weapons should not be owned by anyone. Perhaps this is for the best.
3. Cold fusion
© wikimedia Remember the reactor, which is in the chest of Iron Man ? This device operates on the principle of cold nuclear fusion. That is, it generates energy as an entire atomic power station, while it does not heat up and is placed in a pocket.
In 1989, Professor and journalist Eugene Mullov claimed to have observed the operation of such a device. In one of his books he describes in detail the details of the experiment, during which the cold synthesis was a success. But in 2004, Mullov died, and without telling us about the details of the successful experience.
Many scientists and skeptics believe that the professor's book is just a hoax, and the experiment did not exist, but where the truth is, we will not know.
4. Material Starlite
Starlite - an unusual plastic, which was invented in 1983 by the usual hairdresser Maurice Ward (Maurice Ward). A thin layer of this plastic could be applied to any object, and it could withstand, as the researchers claim, a temperature of 10 000 ° C (twice the hot surface of the sun).
In 1993, plastic was shown in action on TV. The chicken egg was coated with a thin layer of Starlite and heated with a gas burner. A few minutes later the egg was cleaned - the protein inside was damp.
In 2011, Maurice Ward died, leaving no information about what kind of material he was and what his composition was. For a long time scientists conducted experiments and tried to find out what material was made of, but without success.
5. Summoner of the rain
A scientist from Maine Wilhelm Reich liked to grow blueberries, but the drought prevented the growth of plants and spoiled the harvest. Then the scientist created an invention called the "summoner of the rain" ( Cloudbuster ). At least so says the legend.
At the time of launch of this machine there was a terrible drought and there were no forecasts of precipitation, wrote the newspaper Bangor Daily News . Three hours after the scientist started the car, thunderclouds appeared and 0.64 cm of precipitation fell out.
A few days after the launch by order of the government, Wilhelm Reich's research was suspended, and the prototypes were withdrawn. If this did not happen, then the "rain summoner" could bring water and crops to the most arid places of the Earth.
6. Slot's digital code
The Dutch inventor Romke Jan Bernhard Slaughter came up with an algorithm that was able to compress gigabytes of information hundreds of times. He demonstrated his success, losing simultaneously 16 movies from one 64-kilobyte chip.
However, in 1999, a few days before the transfer of the source code to the public, Slaughter died under unusual circumstances, and all the information was lost. If this technology got to the masses, today our phone could contain almost all the films that were ever shot.
7. Electric car
In 1931, Nicole Tesla showed a new brand of the Pierce-Arrow . Tesla inspected the car, then went to the local radio shop and bought a few details that fit in a box measuring 60 by 15 cm.
He placed the box behind the seat and connected the wires to the air-cooled engine. Then he took the driver's seat and drove off. As eyewitnesses say, the car could accelerate to 150 km / h and go for 8 days without recharging.
When the scientist was asked where the energy comes from, he replied: "From the ether around us all." Then people began to laugh and say that Tesla is insane. The scientist was angry, and he destroyed the mysterious box that propelled the car.
8. The device of Rife
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