The Man That Invented E-Cigs...

[420GypsyGirl]

Has anyone made Gilbert's version of an e-cig to see it it actually worked? I bet it did. It is really quite a good design. Much better than a lot of the crap we have on the market today that is for sure. So we cannot discount his creation and just blow it off. BTW even the Wright Brothers used Leonardo's design concepts for their heavier than air craft. They took his design and innovated it to make it work. Leonardo's design inspired many others. It is quite possible Lik was inspired by Gilbert. We may never know.

 

[ChipCurtis]

I've came up with numerous ideas, in fact, that I could PROVE IN THEORY...long before they came to market. And I watched as these ideas suddenly appeared on the open market when I had conceived of them, with no outside influence, years before.

Yeah I know what you mean here. Ask several friends of mine, they will tell you that I thought up the MP3 player back in 1985. Only in concept and theory of course.

When I first saw the CD that year, a few days later I made a prediction that in the future all music media will be stored on solid chips, and the players would have no moving parts. Players would be tiny pocket devices (that has come true). However, I thought that albums would be stored on "chips" and sold that way to be used in specific players. I hadn't yet thought of the data transfer/networking and re-writable flash memory yet. Hell, the Internet was still 8 years away. How many people even though about re-writable CDs at that point?

Nonetheless, I had the basic idea down.

 

[Scottbee]

Sheeesh. and I had the idea that man will fly with a very, very small propulsion device strapped to his back. He'll be able to go 500 miles and then just drop in a small pellet of new fuel.

That doesn't mean I invented a dern thing. Supporting technology needs to be invented before this becomes any form of a reality.

One may think that da Vinci invented the helicopter. Fine... but of course in his time there were no internal combustion engines, nor were their materials that had the proper strength to weight ratio. So what did he really "invent"?

Back in 1963 somebody may have had an idea about vaporizing liquid in a "pen sized" device. What did he invent? Liquid was being vaporized all the time back in the 60's... just in bigger devices. And the size of device that he conceived was an impossibility at the time because the battery technology wasn't there (not even remotely close). So what exactly did he "invent"? An idea for something that couldn't possibly work (in that time)?

 

[Scottbee]

Has anyone made Gilbert's version of an e-cig to see it it actually worked? I bet it did.

It still won't work to this day. Look at the size of the indicated battery. Now try to get a couple of watts out of that for more than 100msecs.

 

[BuzzKill]

Your getting to damn technical Scott !
next year they will be out I swear

 

[Scottbee]

Your getting to damn technical Scott !

You're right. My bad.

 

[420GypsyGirl]

It still won't work to this day. Look at the size of the indicated battery. Now try to get a couple of watts out of that for more than 100msecs.

Why be so ....? I said it would take some rework with todays tech to probably get it to work, but the basic design is good. Some of you just think you are the cats meow of e-cigs. I swear. New and better designs will come. Whose to say that his basic design would with a few tweaks using todays tech would not make his version a better version. Sheeeesh...life is to short to argue with people that think they are gifts to mankind.

 

[BuzzKill]

Man U are ON FIRE today 420 !!

 

[Scottbee]

Why be so ....?

....? I do this for a living. I have done this for a living for a long time. I have looked at the 1963 design, and am confident that it is still not a viable design given where we are with energy densities (today). At some point it may become viable, but my guess would be that we will have moved past "wicking" as a liquid delivery mechanism by then. Something more positive and absolute will probably be in place (piezo micro-droplet delivery comes to mind.... or perhaps positive displacement pumping).

I've read quite a few of your posts Gypsy... you have an interesting perspective on things.