re: #29 Killgore Trout

I think most of those are urban myths. Like the story about the guy who invented a car that runs off water who is mysteriously killed.
I’m pretty sure that if someone invented a real car that runs off water it’d catch on.

Is it though? I remember a TV show I saw in the pre-Internet days, where a man had invented a washing machine that used sound waves - no detergent required. So, the detergent companies scuttled him to ensure the invention never came to pass. I wish I could remember more details, because so far googling has only produced this:

There was an episode of “Beyond 2000″ in the late 90′s that showed a man that had invented a clothes washer and dish washer that both worked on cold water and no detergent by using sound waves. The show said the detergent assosiation bought the patend and that we’ll never see it. Sounds like another engine that runs on water.