This is the unknown history of Professor Yull Brown an inventor of Bulgarian origin.
His baptist name was Ilia Valkov, one of the greatest Bulgarian and world chemists of all time.
and discovers the Brown gas.
The history that we’ll share with you today is one of the most amazing ones, it has all the ingredients to make an action movie script: a hero ahead of time, government repression, spying accusations, the plot developing in different countries, an amazing breakthrough and an unexpected end.
The real name of Yull Brown (Yull Brown) is Ilia Valkov, born at midnight on Easter in 1922 in a small village close to Varna.
From a young age, he is attracted to technology. As a teenager, he served in the Bulgarian Navy in the Aegean Sea. Later move to Sofia following is electrical engineering studies at Sofia Polytechnic, but after the September 9 coup his life has the first twist, Ilia was sent to a Belene concentration camp (an island in the Danube river next to the city of Belene) in 1948.
He was accused of turning into foreign radio stations (Radio Free Europe) and spying on his own country and declared “enemy of the State“. He served for years in a correctional facility in Bulgaria in horrible conditions. Later he worked under difficult conditions in the mine at the Labor Educational Dormitory in Pernik. Although a prisoner, during this period his assistance was used to repair important and expensive equipment.
In 1950 he was released but the harassment by Bulgarian secret services didn’t stop, and two years later, in 1952 he escaped from Bulgaria to Turkey passing by the Strandzha mountains and crossing the Rezovo River. In Turkey, he was convicted as a spy and imprisoned for 5 years.
He was released with the help of the US Army intelligence services and the personal involvement of Major Brown, Ilia Valkov took his liberator’s last name, and his first name from Jules Verne that in his book “The Mysterious Island” propose the idea of use water as combustible a kind of inspiration to his life work and fled to Australia in 1956 with a political refugee passport.
In Australia, he graduated from the University of Electrical Engineering in Sydney and began working as an engineer at several large companies in the early 1960s. Yull Brown filed for patents for Brown’s gas in 1974, 10 years after William A. Rhodes filed for similar patents for an HHO electrolysis unit.
Most of Yull Brown’s demonstration was conducted with welding torches where he showed that hydrogen and oxygen could be separated from water and then burned cleanly using many different objects.
Read lessThis is the unknown history of Professor Yull Brown an inventor of Bulgarian origin.
His baptist name was Ilia Valkov, one of the greatest Bulgarian and world chemists of all time.
and discovers the Brown gas.
The history that we’ll share with you today is one of the most amazing ones, it has all the ingredients to make an action movie script: a hero ahead of time, government repression, spying accusations, the plot developing in different countries, an amazing breakthrough and an unexpected end.
The real name of Yull Brown (Yull Brown) is Ilia Valkov, born at midnight on Easter in 1922 in a small village close to Varna.
From a young age, he is attracted to technology. As a teenager, he served in the Bulgarian Navy in the Aegean Sea. Later move to Sofia following is electrical engineering studies at Sofia Polytechnic, but after the September 9 coup his life has the first twist, Ilia was sent to a Belene concentration camp (an island in the Danube river next to the city of Belene) in 1948.
He was accused of turning into foreign radio stations (Radio Free Europe) and spying on his own country and declared “enemy of the State“. He served for years in a correctional facility in Bulgaria in horrible conditions. Later he worked under difficult conditions in the mine at the Labor Educational Dormitory in Pernik. Although a prisoner, during this period his assistance was used to repair important and expensive equipment.
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