| Spurious invention |
Description |
|---|
| Angel Light |
According to its inventor, this device could make walls, hands, and stealth shielding transparent. |
| Black box |
Popular name for a diagnostic machine made by Albert Abrams. It supposedly could diagnose diseases based on their special vibrations that can be sensed along someone's spine.[1]: 37 |
| Chronovisor |
A time viewer claimed to have produced photographs and recordings of the ancient past. |
| Cloudbuster |
A device that could purportedly make rain through manipulating atmospheric orgone, a kind of energy considered to be pseudoscientific.[1]: 55 |
| Edison |
A device claimed to produce numerous analyses of blood very quickly using very small samples. |
| Gavreau's infrasonic weapons |
Various whistles and horns, possibly fictional, which could cause serious bodily harm and death by emitting infrasound.[2][3] |
| Mechanical Turk |
An 18th-century chess-playing automaton that appeared to operate autonomously but actually concealed a human operator, deceiving audiences for decades.[4] |
| Rife machine |
Devices that can, purportedly, by the use of electromagnetic waves, destroy pathogens, including cancer. There is no reliable evidence that the Rife machine works as a cure for cancer.[5] |
| Teleforce |
A weapon, also known as Nikola Tesla's death ray or peace ray, that would accelerate pellets of material to a high velocity so as to cause significant damage from a long distance.[6] |
| Nikola Tesla electric car hoax |
Alleged advanced electric car. |
| Fleischmann–Pons cold fusion experiment |
Attempt to cause nuclear fusion using electrolysis to achieve the high compression ratio and mobility of deuterium.[1]: 56–57 |
| Kryakutnoy |
Fictional inventor of hot air balloons.[1]: 236 |
| Newman energy machine |
Supposed free-energy machine invented by Joe W. Newman.[1]: 236 |
| Perpetual motion machines |
Hypothetical machines that do not need any added energy or force to continue motion. All attempts as of yet are considered spurious, and such a machine is considered impossible by modern thermodynamics.[1]: 248, 262 |
