(1877)
Russian Scientist Fydor Petrovich Volochanka, (1801-1882) a native of Siberia spent all of his adult life convinced that light itself was the only energy that could create itself. Sadly Fydor's notes we're left on a cable car in Stalin Grad in 1879, so little is know about this invention.
The device came to the Museum by way of the slimy
art dealer Dirk Everett . In 1974 Everett claimed that the device, when set in bright sunlight, would turn sun light into a liquid that never lost it's heat, and burned at a convientent 950 degrees.
To this day, the machine has done little more than make a strange whistling noise. The Museum was unable to locate Dirk, but was able to stop payment on several other aquisitons.
Ectoplasm Distiller
(1844) Igor Dyatlov
A teacher of Volochanka who is credited with teaching Volochanka everything he knew about light and physics created his own device. This device was known to capture
and distil ectoplasm into a liquid that could be used in a variety of fantastic ways. It was rumored that smearing the liquid on solid objects made them see through, other accounts claim that the liquid
could cause objects to levitate.
The device never worked at the Museum, although there was much consideration to putting it in the snack bar and modifying it so it could make shave ice.
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