Edwin V. Gray Demonstration

Despite harassment by the authorities, lack of funding, and science ignorance, Edwin V. Gray, a self-educated inventor from Los Angeles, managed to develop a new and remarkable electromagnetic motor that would radically improves the world’s conditions.

Gray invented a low-cost motor that would deliver horsepower at a highly efficient way with far less wear and tear than any of the other present devices. His new innovation would get us closer to realizing new energy generation systems only known in science fiction.

It seemed that Gray, with his new invention, managed to get the answer for Detroit’s problems involving the practical use of electric powered engines to drive cars forward.

If such technology made it to the public in mass production, Gray’s name would be written in history with threads of gold, alongside the inventors who changed the course of history with their inventions, like Edison’s lamp, Marconi’s radio and Bell’s telephone.

Unfortunately, Gray struggled a lot developing and marketing his invention. It was all caused by a strange wave of resistance to changes and his threat to the economic status of auto and oil industries.

However, Gray didn’t give in to these hurdles. He went on with countless experiments and demonstration until he managed to prove that his project actually works. He succeeded in harnessing the energy of static charges to power his new motor, despite scientific assurance that it’s not even possible, proving all of them wrong in the end.

He then started to seek funding and financing for his project to enable him to develop his technology and make it more practical and within reach of the public. He was then a subject of yet another setback because of serious accusations of fraud which were charged against him by the Los Angeles D.A.’s office.

Edwin Gray's Capacitor Tube

On July 22nd, 1974, and out of nowhere, agents from Los Angeles District Attorney's Office busted into his shop and office and confiscated all the records and prototypes of his projects. Over the next 8 months, the DA tried to frame Gray by getting his stockholders to file charges but they all refused. Later on he was charged with “Grand Theft” but these charges eventually dropped. Furthermore, by March 1976 he was found guilty of two security violations and was fined, but was never given back his confiscated properties.

Edwin Gray was born and raised by a poor family in Washington, DC back in 1925, surrounded by 13 other children. No one ever thought he’d be the way he turned out to be.

In an early age, Gray was attracted to the new-coming field of electronics, and was fascinated by engines and motors and wondered what really makes them work.

Even at a young age, Gray began wondering about three main facts that always puzzled him; any capacitor can be used store electric charges with the ability of discharging them when needed, electric pluses can be sent and brought back, and the fact that lightning always seem to be stronger when the clouds are near to the ground.

These facts were carved on the back of his head by experiments and observations. Several times he got electrocuted when he touched a charged capacitor. He was also thrilled when he saw the government’s demonstration of a primitive radar system across the Potomac River.

He was also crazy about thunderstorms and used to gaze at them for hours on end. He then noticed that lightning always seemed stronger when it occurred closer to the earth in the dense atmosphere.

These three facts were later the core of his design of his EMS motor, of course with the addition of means of generating and mixing static electricity.