A primary-source archive of Stanley A. Meyer’s patents, technical documents, press coverage, and legal records.
Primary-source archive · 2026-09-19
Stanley Meyer's water-fuel-cell patents document apparatus and method claims that passed USPTO examination from 1976 to 1994. They do not prove a vehicle ran solely on water or that the system produced net energy. Grove City Record scans show local press reported demonstrations and claims; a newspaper report is not a laboratory result. This archive has not located a controlled, independently reproducible energy-balance test. Fraud, suppression, poisoning, and murder stories remain allegations until operative court records appear. The Meyer File is a historical document desk, not a build guide.
What’s inside
Provenance is logged in research/sources/sources-log.md.
The Meyer File
Pull a leaf from the patent drawer or the press drawer and read the stamp: what the document establishes, and what it does not. Then stamp eight statements yourself. A grant is not a road test. A newspaper is not a laboratory. A docket snapshot is not a judgment. No construction advice. No new performance claims.
Critical reading boundary
Patent grants document claims that passed patent-office examination; they do not by themselves prove a device's measured efficiency, commercial performance, or the broader claim that a vehicle ran solely on water. The archive has not located a controlled, independently reproducible energy-balance test that establishes net energy production from Meyer's system.
The Meyer File is the fastest path through the core evidence. Linear pages still identify the underlying archival files, and the patent index links directly to official USPTO PDFs.
The characteristic desk: open a leaf, read what it establishes, and stamp inferences off the record.
Evidence-anchored milestones from patents and contemporaneous local press coverage (1976–1998).
Official USPTO patent PDFs plus international filings and trademark status records.
Primary page scans from the Grove City Record documenting local coverage across two decades.
Primary documents are treated as the source of truth. When only archival mirrors exist, the document is treated as primary and the host is labeled as a mirror. Claims without primary evidence are marked as allegations.
View evidence ledgerEvery file is logged with URL and access date. OCR text is used for discovery and must be verified against the original scans before quoting.
Browse archiveThe questions this archive is built to answer, without converting documents into lore.
This archive documents patents and local press coverage of that claim. It has not located a controlled, independently reproducible energy-balance test establishing that a vehicle ran solely on water or produced net energy. The honest public answer from this file is: the claim was made and reported; the performance is not established here.
No. Official USPTO grant PDFs from 1976 to 1994 prove that patents issued. The USPTO notes that a working model is not ordinarily required. A patent records examined claims; it is not independent experimental validation or a commercial-performance certificate.
In this file it is the name used in Meyer-associated patents, trademarks, manuals, and Grove City Record coverage for claimed hydrogen/fuel-gas apparatus. Ordinary electrolysis uses electricity to split water; the U.S. Department of Energy treats energy efficiency as a central engineering challenge. Extraordinary efficiency claims need complete energy accounting, which this archive does not have.
Not in this file. Suppression or shutdown by authorities is listed as an allegation with no court order, agency record, or comparable primary evidence located yet. Absence of a performance test is not itself proof of suppression.
This archive holds a 25 March 1998 Grove City Record scan of local death coverage and later docket metadata. It does not hold medical records or a criminal finding. Poisoning and murder claims remain allegations here.
Franklin County CIO snapshots include 93 CV 005477 (Richard Schneider v. Stanley A. Meyer; Fuel C Water). Portal pages provide docket entries, not scanned filings or judgments. This site does not repeat a fraud verdict as established fact until those records are obtained.
Not in the records this archive currently holds. A community-hosted document titled International Independent Test Evaluation Report is preserved as an author/host file, not as authenticated independent validation. What would close the gap is disclosed apparatus, calibration, raw input and output measurements, uncertainty analysis, and repeatable procedure.
No. It is a historical document desk. It does not give construction, wiring, or operating instructions for electrolysis or hydrogen equipment, and it does not recommend building, buying, or investing in any apparatus described in the patents or manuals.