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Charles Garrett was granted a US patent in 1935 for an electrolyzer that generated hydrogen and oxygen gas from water to run cars. His design included a second alternator to provide extra electrical supply and plates that introduced water vapor to the gas mix. Archie Blue was granted a similar patent over 50 years later for an electrolyzer design using straight electrolysis to produce gas for fuel. Both men claimed to successfully run cars using just water as fuel. Modifying a vehicle's fuel system requires insurance approval.

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Garrett Blue

Charles Garrett was granted a US patent in 1935 for an electrolyzer that generated hydrogen and oxygen gas from water to run cars. His design included a second alternator to provide extra electrical supply and plates that introduced water vapor to the gas mix. Archie Blue was granted a similar patent over 50 years later for an electrolyzer design using straight electrolysis to produce gas for fuel. Both men claimed to successfully run cars using just water as fuel. Modifying a vehicle's fuel system requires insurance approval.

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The Electrolysers of Charles Garrett and Archie Blue

Here are two electrolysers which could run cars on water alone. Charles Garrett was granted US Patent
2,006,676 on 2nd July 1935 in which he shows some impressive details. Firstly, he generated an extra electrical
supply by fitting a second (6 volt) alternator to his car. While the drawing shows the applied voltage swapping
over in polarity, this was not done rapidly, just occasionally to even up any deterioration of the electrodes.

Charles maintained the water level in the electrolysis chamber with a neat carburettor-style float and pin valve
arrangement. He improved the electrolysis by introducing a perforated tube below the electrode plates which
allows the engine to suck air up past the plates. This cools the electrolyte (water with a few drops of hydrochloric
acid) introduces water vapour to the gas mix and dislodges any bubbles on the plates, without the need for any
extra mechanical device. Considering that he did this seventy-five years ago, it is an impressive piece of work.
Please note that while only five electrode plates are shown in the diagram, in reality it is probable that many such
plates were used.

One point which should be noted is that the cars of that time had very much smaller capacity engines and so they
will have needed far less HHO gas mixture in order to run adequately.

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The Archie Blue Electrolyser.
More than fifty years after Charles Garrett was granted his patent, another one 4,124,463 was granted to Archie
Blue. The equipment described in the two patents operates in more or less the same way. Archie’s equipment is
very simple to construct and uses straight electrolysis with no attempt at pulsing the electrical supply. Like
Charles Garrett, Archie Blue claimed to have run a car on water alone, using his electrolyser design, which is
shown here:

With this unit, air is sucked out of the exit pipe by the vehicle engine, while being pumped into the electrolyser by
an air pump. The air flows down through the central pipe and is forced up through the non-aligned holes in the
electrode plates, causing turbulence and probably, the formation of water-gas clusters. The air bubbles also stir
the electrolyte into vigorous motion, dislodging the hydrogen and oxygen bubbles which form on the plates as a
result of the electrolysis current flow through the electrolyte.

It is said that six of these electrolysis units are sufficient to run a car using just water as the fuel. It has been
stated that electrolysis of water is optimum at 1.5 Volts, so it might be more efficient to connect the units in series
where each units receives 2 Volts rather than in parallel where each unit receives 12 Volts (unless, of course, the
heating caused by connecting them in parallel is a factor in the very high efficiency of Archie Blue’s system):

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The air connection is the same for either method of wiring the cells. If wired in series, the voltage drop across
each cell may not be the same although they were constructed in an identical fashion.

Please bear in mind that should you modify a vehicle to run on hydrogen, either as an additive or as a
replacement for petrol, you need to clear it with your insurance company before using it on a public road,
otherwise, you will be driving without insurance since any alteration to the vehicle automatically invalidates the
insurance if the insurer is not notified and agrees the change. You may, of course, modify any stationary engine
or any vehicle which you only run on private property. In the USA, the oil companies have influenced the local
courts to such a degree that in some States, it is an offence to “run a vehicle on a non-approved fuel”.

In passing, you may be interested to hear that I have been told that the Prohibition era in America had nothing at
all to do with people drinking alcohol. The reality was that in the early days, Henry Ford was going to have his
Model-T car running fuel-less by using a Nikola Tesla designed magneto system and an electric engine, but he
was pressured into using an internal combustion engine to burn the gasoline which was an unwanted component
of the local oil industry. This caused a problem for people on long journeys as there were very few gasoline filling
stations at that time. To overcome the problem, the early cars were set up so that they could run on either
gasoline or on alcohol produced by some 50,000 farmers scattered around the country. When the oil industry
discovered how profitable it was selling gasoline, they opened many gasoline filling stations. They then wanted to
exclude the farmers and have all of the profits for themselves and so Prohibition was introduced, not to stop
people drinking alcohol (although that was the pretext), but in reality, to shut down the 50,000 alcohol stills which
were their competition. When the stills were gone, then Prohibition was dropped as it had achieved it’s goal of a
vehicle fuel monopoly.

The patents of Charles Garrett and Archie Blue are attached below.

Patrick Kelly
http://www.free-energy-info.com
http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk

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