Charles Nelson Pogue
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Charles Nelson Pogue (15 September 1897 – 1985) was a Canadian mechanic and inventor who in the 1930s filed a series of US patents for a miracle carburetor (sometimes called the Winnipeg carburetor[1]) that would allegedly enable a car to attain Script error: No such module "convert".; it was described as a vaporising carburetor or sometimes a catalytic carburetor. But the 1936 (possibly 1932) announcement was not followed by any verifiable tests or demonstrations.[2]
Description
The carburetor is described in several publicly available patents which have now expired, and there is no evidence that the patents were ever suppressed or that the rights were bought up by the oil industry, the motor industry, or the government. The patents included: U.S. patent 1750354, U.S. patent 1938497, U.S. patent 1997497 & U.S. patent 2026798.
A recent (2003) version of the story from Cornwall, England, has the original blueprints supposedly turning up in a secret compartment in a retired mechanic's toolbox. The story claims that the Toronto Stock Exchange "was rocked" in the 1930s (although no date or year is given), and that Pogue was given a job as manager of a factory (unnamed) making oil filters for the motor industry.[3]
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- ↑ Snopes.com: 200mpg carburetor
- ↑ "Oil Industry Suppressed Plans for 200-mpg Car"
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External links
- Mysterious Deaths: Tom Ogle, Inventor Borderlands (EPCC)