Nikola Tesla and the Conspiracy Against Water-Powered Cars

Zaron Burnett III
24 min readMar 21, 2017
In 1899, Nikola Tesla takes notes in his laboratory, as high voltage electricity arcs from his “magnifying transmitter”

When water-powered car inventor Stanley Meyer sat down to lunch, he never expected the unwelcome surprise of death. But just like pregnancy or the IRS tax man, death doesn’t care about your life plans. It was the third Friday in March, the year was 1998. John Travolta was on the cover of Time magazine, made-up to look like Bill Clinton. The Big Lebowski and Wild Things were playing at the multiplex. Will Smith’s track Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It was the #1 song in America. Which makes it very possible that Will Smith’s radio-friendly voice was in the air, perhaps leaking out of the open car windows of a passing sedan, when water-powered car inventor Stanley Meyer exploded from the restaurant.

Meyer was dining with his two Belgian investors and his brother. Just after enjoying a swallow of cranberry juice, he was seized by the grip of panic. He stood up and fled the table. His brother chased him into the parking lot, where he found him on the ground. Stanley Meyer’s life was reduced to dying words. With his last breath, Meyer accused the Belgian investors of assassinating him: “They poisoned me…” And then, the water-powered car inventor died.

The coroner for Franklin County performed an autopsy. The police from Grove City opened an investigation. Once they were done, the state of Ohio ruled that Stanley Meyer was dead from…

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Zaron Burnett III

writer, story editor, essays & short stories at Medium, and always in the mood for donuts