Many years ago, there was a fellow in the San Diego area who invented a super-microscope which, it was claimed, visualize living virus cells. He also had built a "Ray Tube" device which could destroy the bacteria and virus cells he saw under this microscope. The gentleman's name was Royal Raymond Rife, and he worked as a chauffeur and mechanic for the Timken family, a manufacturer of bearings in the 1920's.

Rife built several microscopes, the most famous being his "#3 Universal Microscope" which, it was claimed, would image live virus cells. Over a period of several years he built five microscopes, ranging from the first high-resolution instrument built in an optical lathe bed, to the better known #3 microscope and eventually the #4 and #5 microscopes, which were his first attempt at a lower cost high resolution microscope. His microscopes were sent to various universities for study; it was reported that Caltech didn't think much of the instrument sent them, although Northwestern University, in a study between the Rife microscope and a standard laboratory microscope, was wildly enthusiastic about Rife's instrument.

In about 1930, an article was published about the Rife microscope in Popular Science, and Dr. Arthur Kendall, one-time Dean of Northwestern Medical School near Chicago read the article, and wrote to a friend, Milbank Johnson MD, in Pasadena, California about the microscope. Dr. Johnson contacted Rife, and visited him at his home on the Timken property in San Diego. Timken was an industrialist and manufacturer of bearings, and supposedly Rife, his chauffauer and machinist, had helped him determine the properties of the steel which Timken's factory was using to make bearings, finding a method in which the steel could be inspected for flaws before it was used for manufacturing, saving Timken a great deal from purchasing worthless materials.

Dr. Johnson wrote back to Kendall, and Dr. Kendall, who developed the "K Medium" which could grow human cancer cells in culture, took the train to California. Johnson held a banquet in 1931 honoring Kendall for his new K Medium, and honoring Rife for his microscope, which could visualize hither-to-unseen organisms. This banquet was reported in the newspapers as "The End to All Disease".

Rife continued with his microscope studies, and had built a radio transmitter device which would light up a glass tube filled tube with helium, called a plasma lamp or Rife Ray Tube machine, and found that if specific

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