Indio Tears

I have heard of many obscure inventions by archeapelagists, that are brilliant but alas never made it or worse, stolen and patented by others abroad. Lost in obscurity, ahead of their time and laughed at. Here a a few I vaguely remember but their ideas were sometimes whimsy or impractical. I shall mention a few and let's see if they would be significant today if things were different from today. A few started off as accidental discoveries or simple humor taken to the next level into the reality we percieve. Imagination does become reality and sometimes we regret bringing new things into this world that cannot be undone so here are a few worthy of mention:

The Flying Tampipi

Inventor's name eludes memory but the premise was to build airplanes for the postal and cargo using indigenous materials. Using woven bamboo mats (think sawali or baning) to make an airworthy frame, wings, rudders, and even the propeller. Bamboo is very strong and it's fiber made into mats that when layered and bonded with resin for panels forming the fuselage and wings, round hollow sections for tubes as structural support struts and even laminated and shaped for propellers. The only parts that had to be imported were the engine, flight controls and instrumentation, landing gear and tires. A prototype was built and successfully tested, but nothing came of it because at the time it was preposterous and was the laughing stock of aviation. Disappeared without further pursuit for development, ended up importing aircraft made of flimsy cloth and subsequently aircraft grade aluminum. This design was superior in strength and way ahead of present day carbon fiber composite laminates that are non biodegradable.

The Unsinkable Batel :

Patterned after the Spanish galleons, it was made up of many compartments that would flood if Hull was breached, but would still float even if riddled with cannon shot or small arms fire, localizing flooding of the ship. Think of straws in bundles that are sealed in sections. Again, bamboo has natural sections in one pole, resin, lime and Manila hemp (the unsmokable type you guys!) Bound it together.

High protien feeds for livestock:

Using waste material form rice mills,  the husks are combined with rice bran (Darak) into a large pile outdoors to which molasses (pulot) was added and mixed thouroughly and left outdoors. The millions of flies they attract feast and lay billions of eggs that hatch and become maggots that are steamed and run through a ballmill then dried. Excellent source of protien and fiber for livestock.

Manhole covers made of recycled tires:

This one invention is especially relevant today as a substitute for iron manhole covers or drain grills on the street which constantly get stolen because they are metal easily sold as scrap to junkshops. Made out of old tires shredded and molded reinforced with the steel belt layer to add strength to support vehicles all the way up to holding up the weight of heavy equipment. This way nobody would bother to steal them for it's value in metal.

Ammonia harvesting public urinals:

Take a pee- get a peso instead of paying to use the comfort room. Waterless urinal that proccesses and stores ammonia for use in industry. Not only save precious water but harvest the waste product. Ammonia was used in refrigeration and has many commercial uses. Think of your pee providing AC for Edward and make a Buck on top of it.

Whipple Shield Bunker walls:

Whipple shield is a structural design that protects modern spacecraft from micro meteor or space junk impacts. One small scale prototype was built and successfully tested as  ballistic protection for use in buildings alternately layering fiberglass, sorbothane, Kevlar and coconut coir together with concrete, lead (for radiation) rubber and ten meters of soil and rock.

There are many more..... This is just to illustrate but a few ideas turned into reality, whether successful or not. Ingenuity and imagination we lack not.

We have all we need and hope to inspire new forward thinkers by rekindling the past and better yet, improving them not for personal gain or acclaim, but for us earthlings

Now back to indio tears: basically a modern Baghdad battery made by the ancient sumerians using the electron dissimilarities between two metals and a saline solution so that the next time your device runs out of power, its alright to cry about it. Now, to find a crybaby to shed tears into pure silver vials (see colloidal silver) set on a frame of old reading glasses- chopping a sack of red onions. Hehehe!