George de la Warr

George de la Warr (1904-1969) was born in the North of England, and in later life became a civil engineer in the pay of Oxfordshire County Council. In 1953 he resigned from this post ["The Times", 25 June 1960, p12] to work on the controversial field of radionics, in which he was a pioneer.

De La Warr claimed to have invented a camera that could detect and cure diseases by remote control. ["The Times", 9 June 1960, p8] In June 1960, he was sued in the High Court by Catherine Phillips, a disgruntled former customer who said that her health had been ruined by using the Delawarr Diagnostic Instrument. ["The Times", 21 June 1960, p5] In particular, she said that the box could not possibly have the benefits that De La Warr claimed for it. ["The Times", 23 June 1960, p16] De La Warr said that his device operated above the physical plane, and the box was only used as a focus for thought. ["The Times", 24 June 1960, p6] After ten days of argument, the judge eventually found for De La Warr, though didn't state whether the box did or did not work. ["The Times", 19 July 1960, p18]

He founded in Oxford the De La Warr Laboratories where he did his research and built many radionic devices. The De La Warr Laboratories closed in 1987. The radionic artifacts, including the original De La Warr Camera, have unknown whereabouts.

Patents

*French patent number 1,084,318 - "Perfectionnement à la recherche d'une radiation fondamentale"
*UK patent number 741,651 - "Therapeutic apparatus"
*UK patent number 761,976 - "Therapeutic apparatus"

References

Further reading

*George de la Warr, Langston Day, "New worlds beyond the atom"
*George de la Warr, Langston Day, "Matter in the making"
*Obituary, "The Times", 2 April 1969, p12