Our technology today will not be the way it is if it wasn't for the great minds in the past. Sadly, some inventors weren't able to share how they managed to turn their ideas into reality, while other inventions are simply lost through time. Here are a couple of inventions that would've been nice to see today.

CloudBuster

This particular invention slides into the area of pseudoscience. The device was invented by an Austrian psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich. He claimed that his invention can manipulate orgone energy, which according to him, is a universal life force present in the atmosphere.

By manipulating the said energy, he can then produce rain. The device had hollow metal tubes on two sides, which are connected to flexible metal hoses. The open end is placed on water and the other is directed at the part of the sky where they want to produce rain clouds.

Sure, it sounds a bit bonkers, but if it works and is available to us today, there are many problems that can be solved like drought or the lack of water supply in certain areas of the world. What's left of the cloudbuster is in Rangeley, Maine.

Water Fuel Cell

If could use water to fuel engines, then we won't have to rely on fossil fuels. The idea was said to have already been invented by Stanley Meyer who called it Water Fuel Cell. It worked by separating the component elements of water and then burning hydrogen to produce energy.

Unfortunately, Meyer died back in Mach 20, 1998 from a cerebral aneurysm. There are even conspiracy theories that he was assassinated, according to Thrive Global. It's possible seeing as fuel is a huge money maker for many companies. 

Starlite

Back in 1986, amateur chemist Maurice Ward was experimenting with plastic coatings and discovered a material he called Starlite. It was so indestructible that it was said to be capable of withstanding the impact of 75 nuclear blasts.

He even tested it out by coating an egg with it and placing it in front of the heat. After the experiment, they opened the egg and it remained the same. It was so heat-resistant that it can endure up to 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 

It was such a huge discovery that even NASA and the British Atomic Weapon Establishment verified its properties. Ward tried to keep it a secret, and he successfully did, so much so that he took the recipe with him when he died in 2011. 

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Ancient Greek Death Ray

The Greeks were known for being ahead of their time. Archimedes, a greek mathematician, just proves that as records show that he built a functioning death ray in 212 BC. All he used was glass and some mirrors, and he weaponized focused light.

According to Grunge, his invention effectively set nearby enemy ships on fire. Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tried to recreate Archimedes' death ray and concluded that it was entirely possible that he did it.

Chronovisor

Time travel is a concept that has yet to be proven, but Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine priest Marcello Pellegrino Emetti may have just gotten close. He along with twelve famous scientists including Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun created the Chronovisor.

The device was said to let its user see and hear into the past. Emetti explained that luminous energy and sounds that objects emulate from around them helps the device reconstruct energy images, which will then show specific events from the past.

The priest even went as far as saying that he saw Jesus Christ dying on the cross. Imagine being able to see the past. We might get answers to mysteries like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart or if there really were advanced civilizations before us.

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