Working for the Benefit of Humanity ... Rather than the "Special Interests"
Article from:
Popular Science March 1949, pages 86-89
Copyright expired. Property of the public domain.
The article as published in Popular Science included a number of photographs showing various pieces of Mr. Wilkinson's simple, yet very effective, home-made laboratory equipment. This same simple equipment could readily be produced today by those wishing to experiment in this important field. A respectable portion of the article's original text is presented below.
EDITOR'S NOTE
The following article was written more than 60 years ago. It contains much important information which is worthy of close consideration.
Francis E. Wilkinson was a man who did experimental work for his own purposes, but he also did work for the oil companies. The oil companies recognized that he had some very special talents.
Mr. Wilkinson was using high-frequency electricity to change one substance into another, and to break the bonds within other substances. The use of his methods may be an important step in the right direction for finding a solution to our energy woes, and a number of our economic woes as well.
The magazine article below was written in a manner which may be different from that which we are used to today. Please do not reject the information based on its method of presentation. Just read on through, and glean the important "golden nuggets" of knowledge out of the presentation.
There is much potential in these processes, even today. It appears there is a very important "lost science" to recover, for the good of mankind.
Back-Yard Alchemist Creates New Substances
with High-Frequency Electricity.
Dancing electrons, whipped to a jitterbug frenzy, are performing miracles of modern alchemy in a backyard laboratory at Glendale, California. Racing back and forth through coils of wire at frequencies up to 100,000,000 cycles or vibrations a second, they transform water, natural gas, cottonseed waste, and potato peelings into new and useful substances for industry.
At a blackened and scarred workbench covered with odds and ends of equipment picked up in junk shops, Francis E. Wilkinson sees matter undergoing strange, sometimes incomprehensible changes. What his wizardry produces, not even he always knows. Yet the pulsing electrons already have created an entirely new, potent motor fuel from cottonseed waste, alcohol from water and natural gas, synthetic rubber from vegetable residue.
Where this modern alchemist's researches will lead, even he cannot guess. He is bringing to bear on waste materials a new force, about which science knows little. How will high frequency affect industry? "Go back a few years," he suggests, "and consider how little man knew about heat. Water boils at 212 degrees. With what electrical frequency can heavy crude oil be transmuted into another, more valuable creation? When we know that simple fact about various substances, we will have the beginnings of many new industries."
Wilkinson began his researches as a student at London University, in England. Later he came to the United States and settled in California, where for two decades he has worked as a consulting engineer and experimented in his crowded little laboratory. Unbreakable glass tubes, each wound to create a particular electrical frequency; spark gaps made from burned-out light bulbs; a galvanometer employing Christmas-tree tinsel - - - these are his principle tools.
Tall, spare, easy-going, Wilkinson works methodically to achieve results the full effect of which may not be felt for another generation. He deals with frequencies which stagger the imagination. Your radio programs flow through the air on frequencies in the 500,000 - 1,500,000 range. This man has knocked carbon out of natural gas with an 80,000,000 frequency. Just as easily, he treats walnut oil with 100,000,000.
Three years ago he thought he was beginning to plumb a few secrets of the effects of electricity upon matter. About that time he turned his attention to round-the-world airplane flights. "Since petroleum products are not easily available in all countries," he reasoned, "the world must have a universal motor fuel, one easily manufactured anywhere."
He went to work to find a motor fuel which could be created from fruits or vegetables. He treated decayed fruit with electricity, produced both alcohol and lubricants. Then he discovered that by adding products obtained from sour cottonseed oil to the alcohol, he had an efficient motor fuel. For good measure, among the by-products was a material which looks, smells, and bounces like crude rubber. He submitted several pieces to a Los Angeles laboratory, and in a few days received a sheet of refined rubber.
"Decayed vegetables will supply the alcohol," he told me. "Alcohol may be easily combined with the carbon radical from other oils, gums, and resins by high-frequency treatment. Thus motorists and airplane pilots need not depend upon oil wells for their fuel."
Five years Wilkinson labored, pouring streams of high-frequency "juice" through waste natural gas and tap water. Eventually he hit the proper combination, and got alcohol. Now he's using gas rich in hydrocarbons in an effort to achieve a high-grade alcohol, one which will provide the basis for a high-test motor fuel.
So with old newspapers --- "that's wood, you know" --- and dried potato peelings, rich in starch and several other useful chemicals... He showed me a jar containing a messy paste. It smelled like fragrant wild flowers. "Perhaps," he hazarded, "waste paper one day will provide power for our engines."
On the day of my visit, Wilkinson was answering a hurry-up call from an oil company to find some way of making a sulphur-laden crude fit for use. For two hours he submitted a container of natural gas to an electonic bombardment, 80,000,000 a second. Then he passed the gas through the black crude, which was itself undergoing a 150,000,000-frequency treatment. Finally he added salt water to the oil, settled out the water, evaporated the liquid. By "busting" the sulphur compound, he drove free sulphur into the water and recovered it as a small pile of gleaming yellow brimstone. In a half day he changed unusable crude into a lower-gravity oil which could be easily refined.
Standing beside Wilkinson, you can see matter actually change under the electronic bombardment. It looks very simple, yet the process represents a lifetime of cut-and-try experiments. Two tall coils generate the high frequencies. The burned filaments in discarded light bulbs which have been wound with small wire to create a magnetic field, serve as spark gaps. High-frequency currents from this apparatus pulse through the coils of the tubular vessels in which he treats his raw materials.
Peculiar discoveries attend his researches. For one experiment, he placed a copper electrode in a flask through which high-frequency current was conducted to a liquid. The liquid vaporized and passed through a second flask into a graduate, where it condensed. A quantity of metallic copper collected at the bottom. No heat had been generated, yet somehow the metal was transmuted through vapor and condensed again. On another occasion, he distilled and treated a quantity of carbon tetrachloride, which ordinarily will not burn. Yet after bombarding it with ultra-short waves, it became highly inflammable. Why? Wilkinson cannot say.
This back-yard experimenter labors without pay because he hates war, and hopes that his experiments may help provide enough raw materials for the world so that nations will cease going to war over them.
A BIT MORE INFORMATION
(May 9, 2015) It appears that another independent researcher has also had an interest in the technology used by Francis Wilkinson. Their webpage includes a copy of the article presented above. What is more, their page includes the pictures as they appeared in the original article. But, there is something even more important included in their page.
The page linked below includes some of the international patents held by Francis Wilkinson. The first patent shown, GB686529, is titled 'Improvements relating to the Desulphurisation of Oils of Mineral Origin.' The second patent shown, GB697224, is titled 'Process and apparatus for treating hydrocarbons.' The third shown, patent GB697223, is titled 'Process and Apparatus for Treating Mineral or Vegetable Oils for the Production of Oils of Lower Boiling Point.'
The fourth patent shown on the page, GB658638, is titled 'Process and Apparatus for the Extraction of Gold from its Ores.' The fifth patent shown, GB680280, shows yet another side of Mr. Wilkinson and is titled 'Improvements relating to Aerial Devices.' It appears that Francis Wilkinson had far more interests than simply oil and fuels.
At the bottom of the page linked below is also noted one United States patent, US2303970, which is titled 'Method for Desulphurizing Mineral Oils.' A copy of that patent is linked here.
A REQUEST
The unique high-frequency technology of Mr. Wilkinson does not appear to be common knowledge amongst the general public. Because of the nature of this technology and because of its incredible potential for producing inexpensive fuels and other useful materials, it may be one which "the powers that be" do not want readily known.
The technology used by Mr. Wilkinson, if widely put into use today, has the potential for quickly and inexpensively changing our world. It could readily produce virtually an unlimited supply of cheap fuels and other useful materials, plus help break the public free from bondage to the despotic energy monopolies found virtually worldwide.
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