Innovation Assassination: When Inventors Mysteriously Disappear

There was a huge American corporation that once had as its motto, ‘Progress is Our Most Important Product.’ 

Nice phrase, but is it always true when it comes to the commercial jungle of mega corporate interests?

Does business really favor progress, or is it only when progress promotes profits is innovation celebrated?

What happens when a new process, a new invention threatens the market share of a corporation? What happens when a revolution in technology can cause devolution in an established industry, in its profits, its power on the world stage?

Sometimes, the inventor of such game changing technology doesn’t get a market deal he gets an all-expense paid permanent stay in a mausoleum.

The disappearance of an inventor of innovative products and procedures isn’t an isolated incident. There are multiple examples, and we’ll explore a few of them.

The reader may have noticed that the oil industry is rather large. The providers of electrical energy are large corporations. When that market is threatened — even by a potential, and unpatented process — it isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine the inventor of that process may have his neck stretched.

Submitted for your perusal — Stanley Meyer.

Meyer claimed he had invented an automobile engine that could run on water, and water was both plentiful, and not controlled by major corporations. It was cheap, it was clean, and there was no way in Texas’ oil filled acres that the major multinational oil companies would allow that kind of technological advance to happen.

It was possible Meyer was correct; it was possible he wasn’t. 

However, what is certain is that Meyer was at his own ‘Last Supper’ when after downing a cranberry juice at lunch, Meyer was down for the count — dead at fifty-seven years old.

He immediately reacted to the cranberry juice, ran into the parking lot of the restaurant that was to be his final destination, and declared, ‘They poisoned me.’

Meyers claimed that he was both subject to threats and offered bribes by oil companies that wanted his ideas to disappear.[1]

Instead, it’s possible, though not proven, that somebody made Meyers disappear.

Let’s look at another case of an inventor who might have been removed from the playing field of mega corporate profits.

Tom Ogle, once again, an inventor that threatened the multinational mob of energy providers. Ogle invented ‘a vaporized fuel system which allowed a car to travel over 200 miles on two gallons of gas.’

That obviously, wouldn’t have pleased the oil companies. Unsurprisingly, Ogle’s technological advances never came to fruition, because Ogle was found dead.

Ogle had used the technology on his own 1972 Thunderbird. He was able to get more than one hundred miles per gallon. In 1977 he had achieved, with an experimental car, two hundred miles per gallon.

That kind of innovation would naturally attract the notice of investors, and others who would never want to see that kind of technology seeing the commercial light of day.

On August 19, 1981, Ogle saw his last light of day. He died at the age of twenty-six.

His death was supposedly due to an overdose of alcohol and pain pills, but many didn’t believe it. Why would an individual with that kind of talent, and the kind of technology with interested investors take his own life?

It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why certain corporate interests would want to take Ogle’s life and make it look like either a suicide or an accident.[2]

How about another example about an inventor who was too inventive for his own health?

You may have heard of him — Nicola Tesla.

This genius inventor, who gave the world so much innovative scientific advances, was found dead in his hotel room in 1943, with the safe opened. Seventy-three years later, after the declassification of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it appeared that Tesla was working on a death ray weapon that of course, attracted the interest of many foreign governments.

One can imagine the advantage to the side which had the death ray during World War II. The government wasted no time in attributing his death to heart failure, than cremating the body, so no further challenge could be made to the cause of death.[3]

But perhaps it wasn’t just his death ray that might have led to the death of Tesla. Perhaps it was his research into free unlimited energy that certain commercial interests were interested in suppressing.

Now, Tesla was no spring chicken when he died, but it’s interesting that immediately upon his death the FBI seized his papers and his property, ‘in the interests of national security’ of course.[4]

Why You Should Care

Imagine a car that could travel two hundred miles on a couple of gallons of gas? How much would it save the average commuter? Imagine a vehicle that could run on water? How much trouble and financial devastation would that cause to the oil interests that still dominate our planet?

What if there really is an all-inclusive cure for cancer out there, but Big Pharma doesn’t want us to know about it, for obvious reasons. Not saying there is, but what if there was?

The history of the world, in part, is a history of controlling institutions, whether political, commercial, or religious stifling the progress that becomes available by and from the efforts of individual people of genius. It’s a history of the persecution and prosecution of those who threaten the established order, and those who mightily profit from the status quo.

It is at times, a history of mysterious death of the innovators, of the prophets of progress.

We must be aware that the powers of the world care little for the people who inhabit it. When any individual stands in the way of corporate profits or political power, that individual is taking a large risk of being silenced — sometimes permanently.

Sources

[1] The Mystery Of Stanley Meyer and his Water-Powered Car Manson, PC Prospector,3/14/23 https://parkcityprospector.us/3527/opinions/conspiracy-column-volume-two-the-mystery-of-stanley-meyer-and-his-water-powered-car/

[2] Borderlands: Mysterious Deaths: Tom Ogle, Inventor 32 (2014-2015) Cuevas, Hernandez, Vise, EPCC Library Research Guides, https://epcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=754275&p=5406552

[3] NICOLA TESLA, The Franklin Files, https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/collection/case-files/nikola-tesla#:~:text=Tesla%20died%20of%20heart%20failure,and%20his%20body%20was%20cremated.

[4] WHAT HAPPENED TO TESLA’S PAPERS AFTER HE DIED? McFADDEN, 6/223/23 INTERESTING ENGINEERING https://interestingengineering.com/culture/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-nikola-teslas-files-after-his-death