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About twenty years ago, I and my wife were owners of some pretty interesting antique and special automobiles. We serviced them at an excellent antique car garage and sales place on 18th Street In St. Petersburg, Florida. I had long been close friends with its proprietor.

When I stopped by this time to have the timing adjusted in my old Rolls Royce Phantom II, he said"Its gonna take a few hours. But I'm gonna send you up the street to Mr. Marlborough's and you are not going to believe what he's going to show you."

Mr. Marlborough was a very old, perhaps 90 years old, automotive engineer amd had become rather famous for his inventions. I had met him some years before and he knew of my interest in exotic cars, so no introduction was necessary.

My auto friend phoned him.

As I arrived at his house, the old man was pulling on a jacket ans striding toward a 1960 Dodge Dart that stood in the yard. He stopped at the rear of the car, and picking up a garden hose, seemingly filled a tank with tap water. "Get in the front." he said, and that was necessary, for the back of the car was completely full of machinery, and there was a suspicious bulging of the trunk where the lid had been replaced, and more machinery was sticking up.

He turned a switch and waited several minutes, then turned a valve on the dash, then hit a third switch, a starter button, and the engine burst into life.

He drove it gingerly onto busy 34th Street and accelerated. It seemed to me in function to be that good slant six that Chrysler had perfected.
After 20 minutes of silent driving, he returned to his house and fixed me a bourbon and water in his comfortable study.

"Have you figured it out?" he grinned.

"No. What I've figured is impossible!"

"That's right! It was impossible until I found the way.
And I've sold the process and all the secrets to a company in Colorado for a nice sum. I can quit working and die rich and happy!"

"I'll explain the fundamentals to you."

The most of the afternoon was spent in details about the system, but it can be explained in a few words.

Water, H20, is two gases, oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen is highly explosive, particularly when mixed with oxygen , both as GASES, not a fluid.

There have been several ways to split water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, for more than a century. But never in a QUICK and efficient way. Electrolysis, the use of positive and negative poles of Direct Current electricity to attract the oxygen and the hydrogen, as gases, has been known since

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