http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Paul_Pedrick

"Arthur Paul Pedrick was a prolific British inventor who obtained 162 United Kingdom patents between 1962 and his death in 1976"

"His crowning achievement in this respect was patent GB1426698 titled "Photon Push-Pull Radiation Detector For Use In Chromatically Selective Cat Flap Control And 1000 Megaton Earth-Orbital Peace-Keeping Bomb"."


If you get bored....worth a browse.

I like this one:
Transfer of fresh water

Pedrick's concern for his fellow man is again shown in GB1047735, titled "Arrangements for the transfer of fresh water from one location on the earth's surface to another at a different latitude, for the purpose of irrigation, with pumping energy derived from the effect of the earth's rotation about the polar axis".

In this patent, Pedrick describes in extremely long detail, with pages of mathematical equations, how snow and ice could be passed along pipelines from the Antarctic to irrigate the dry Australian outback, creating a "granary of the East" that could feed the burgeoning population of the world. Since the flow of water from one region to the other through such pipelines would not be practicable, according to Pedrick, the suggestion is to instead compress the snow into hard balls that could be fired along these pipelines as projectiles.

another one from the database

"(54) PROPELLING AUTOMOBILES WITHOUT USING PETROL, OR GASOLENE (71) I, ARTHUR PAUL PEDRICK, British subject, 77, Hillfield Road, Selsey, Sussex, do hereby declare the invention, for which I pray that a patent may be granted to me, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: This invention is concerned with an arrangement for propelling an automobile by horse power produced by an actual horse."

"gnition switch in the automobile may be arranged to apply a very mild electric shock, by contacts 20, in Figure 3, to the posterior of the horse to stimulate it into movement."

"Alternatively there might be a microphone in the automobile linked to the loud speaker near to the horse's head, whereby the driver of the automobile might give oral instructions to the horse such as "Gee-Up" or "Whoa" and, when the horse is moving the automobile, there might be played from a suitable tape recorder tunes with a fast tempo such as "The Teddy bear's Picnic", which will encourage the horse, psychologically, to keep up a good speed."

I love this guy.

Internally explosive nail:

Heading F2H In a nail 1 for the penetration of hard wood a pointed needle 4 is forced into the wood 10 by an explosive charge 7 which is detonated by striking a plunger 8 with a hammer head. Thereafter the nail 1 is firmly supported projecting from the wood and may be driven therein by a hammer.

I also saw a link about this article on him that told in detail of a cat flap that him and his cat designed that was connected to a nuclear bomb.  The cat could come in but if the neighbors dog tried to come in a nuke would be deployed to blow up the dog.