Crank Estate Sale

[Trooper]

I love repurposing, so I’m always going to flea markets and garage sales. In fact, I just finished this coffee table, made from an old industrial cart and wooden pallets.

This weekend, I stumbled onto an interesting estate sale that looked like a full-blown crank lab. Well, actually it was more like a large industrial company. It contained tons of industrial machinery, all sorts of chemicals, lab glassware, electronics, and Tesla type gizmos.

His daughter said that he was into cold fusion, free energy, anti-gravity, that sort of stuff. She thought he was on the up and up and believes that some of the people he was working with may be interested in the so-called intellectual properties. I’m thinking about flipping it, but I have no idea what some of the stuff is, or what it’s worth. The man had some money, though, that's for sure. He even had a couple of helicopters. They supposedly had very wealthy investors, such as this Prince.


I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of him. Here’s a video of him being interviewed by this guy named John Hutchison, who I believe is also a crank. He was also associated with Tom Bearden, George Hathaway, and Harold E. Puthoff. I found a little perpetual motion piece on Bearden, but I’ve never ran across Hutchison, Hathaway, or Bearden before, has anyone else?

Interview with John Hutchison

The Hutchison Effect

 

[Lakon]

I love repurposing, so I’m always going to flea markets and garage sales. In fact, I just finished this coffee table, made from an old industrial cart and wooden pallets.

This weekend, I stumbled onto an interesting estate sale that looked like a full-blown crank lab. Well, actually it was more like a large industrial company. It contained tons of industrial machinery, all sorts of chemicals, lab glassware, electronics, and Tesla type gizmos.

His daughter said that he was into cold fusion, free energy, anti-gravity, that sort of stuff. She thought he was on the up and up and believes that some of the people he was working with may be interested in the so-called intellectual properties. I’m thinking about flipping it, but I have no idea what some of the stuff is, or what it’s worth. The man had some money, though, that's for sure. He even had a couple of helicopters. They supposedly had very wealthy investors, such as this Prince.


I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of him. Here’s a video of him being interviewed by this guy named John Hutchison, who I believe is also a crank. He was also associated with Tom Bearden, George Hathaway, and Harold E. Puthoff. I found a little perpetual motion piece on Bearden, but I’ve never ran across Hutchison, Hathaway, or Bearden before, has anyone else?

Interview with John Hutchison

The Hutchison Effect

Is there a summary of who he is / what he does (or claims) without having to watch a half dozen different videos ?

I watched this one and was extraordinarily underwhelmed .. nothing happened !!! .. EXCEPT for the music in the first couple of minutes of it - so hauntingly beautiful .. how can I find it ? Anyone know ?

 

[Trooper]

Is there a summary of who he is / what he does (or claims) without having to watch a half dozen different videos ?

I watched this one and was extraordinarily underwhelmed .. nothing happened !!! .. EXCEPT for the music in the first couple of minutes of it - so hauntingly beautiful .. how can I find it ? Anyone know ?

This was all I could find. I thought it was really interesting. Cranks fascinate me. It looks like he worked with Dudley Allen Buck on the Cryotron, which was featured in life magazine.

Spoiler

By 1957, Buck began to place more emphasis on miniaturization of cryotron systems. The speed that cryotron devices could attain is greater as size of the device is reduced. Dr. Buck, his students, and researcher Kenneth R. Shoulders made great progress manufacturing thin-film cryotron integrated circuits in the laboratory at MIT. Developments included the creation of oxide layers as insulation and for mechanical strength by electron beam reduction of chemicals. This work, co-authored with Kenneth Shoulders, was published as "An Approach to Microminiature Printed Systems". It was presented in December, 1958, at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Philadelphia.

NOBEL PRIZE NOMINATIONS FOR ENERGY

Spoiler

Now that we understand the importance and nature of cold fusion, it is time to nominate B. Stanley Pons, Martin Fleischmann (Fellow of the Royal Society), and Kenneth R. Shoulders for a Nobel Prize. Pons and Fleischmann deserve the prize for their fundamental discovery of cold fusion [1]. Kenneth R. Shoulders deserves a part of the prize for his excellent work in discovering and revealing how nuclear reactions take place in both the palladium-heavy-water system and in the sono-fusion system [2]. A further degree of experimental information about nuclear reactions has been added by the Neal-Gleeson Process [3]. http://www.rexresearch.com/ev/ev.htm

Oh, and you’re right, the song is hauntingly beautiful. It’s hard to hear but it sort of sounds like Isobella by Enya.

 

[Lakon]

This was all I could find. I thought it was really interesting. Cranks fascinate me. It looks like he worked with Dudley Allen Buck on the Cryotron, which was featured in life magazine.

Spoiler

By 1957, Buck began to place more emphasis on miniaturization of cryotron systems. The speed that cryotron devices could attain is greater as size of the device is reduced. Dr. Buck, his students, and researcher Kenneth R. Shoulders made great progress manufacturing thin-film cryotron integrated circuits in the laboratory at MIT. Developments included the creation of oxide layers as insulation and for mechanical strength by electron beam reduction of chemicals. This work, co-authored with Kenneth Shoulders, was published as "An Approach to Microminiature Printed Systems". It was presented in December, 1958, at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Philadelphia.

NOBEL PRIZE NOMINATIONS FOR ENERGY

Spoiler

Now that we understand the importance and nature of cold fusion, it is time to nominate B. Stanley Pons, Martin Fleischmann (Fellow of the Royal Society), and Kenneth R. Shoulders for a Nobel Prize. Pons and Fleischmann deserve the prize for their fundamental discovery of cold fusion [1]. Kenneth R. Shoulders deserves a part of the prize for his excellent work in discovering and revealing how nuclear reactions take place in both the palladium-heavy-water system and in the sono-fusion system [2]. A further degree of experimental information about nuclear reactions has been added by the Neal-Gleeson Process [3]. http://www.rexresearch.com/ev/ev.htm

Oh, and you’re right, the song is hauntingly beautiful. It’s hard to hear but it sort of sounds like Isobella by Enya.

Yes, cranks (a rather pejorative term, but never mind) do fascinate. Wheat could not exist without chaff - and even chaff has it's uses.

Thanks for the music link. I'll check it out.

 

[Trooper]

No, I was wrong. It's 'Water Shows the Hidden Heart" by Enya.

[video=youtube;uo375Y2g7Gg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo375Y2g7Gg[/video]

 

[Lakon]

No, I was wrong. It's 'Water Shows the Hidden Heart" by Enya.

[video=youtube;uo375Y2g7Gg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo375Y2g7Gg[/video]

I just spent the last half hour looking for it - thanks a million Trooper !

Gorgeous stuff - has some ancient Greek / Latin iambic tones to it. My wife used to listen to Enya ages ago, though Ive long forgotten about them. Going to get some CD's tommorrow. I love it. Thanks !