The Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator. An open design.
We are rebuilding the 1930s apparatus, measuring it with real instruments and publishing everything: drawings, bill of materials, oscillograms. Ready-made devices are available today only on request, and their design is a trade secret.
Real measurements of devices in this class: continuous noise 0–1500 MHz, antenna resonances from ≈45 MHz, Tesla coils from ≈3.3 MHz, pulse repetition 800–4000 Hz. Schematic representation — exact oscillograms will be published once measured.
The forgotten branch
Twentieth-century medicine made an extraordinary leap. Some approaches of early biophysics were barely studied further after the 1940s. To this day there is no study of the Multiple Wave Oscillator that meets modern standards.
One of those branches is the work of Georges Lakhovsky (1869–1942), a Russian-French engineer. He proposed that every living cell behaves like a resonant circuit: the nucleus with its nucleic filaments as an inductance, the membrane as a capacitance.
From 1931, Lakhovsky apparatuses ran in clinics in Paris and New York. Reports, publications and US patent 1,962,565 survive. Then came the war, Lakhovsky's death in 1942, the seizure of the devices by the US regulator — and nearly 80 years of silence.
Theory →Why nobody has properly checked this in 80 years
There is nothing to test: devices are hard to obtain, designs are closed and measurement data is unpublished.
As long as nobody measures a device openly, the question cannot be answered. We are changing that.
Five steps to an open measurement report
Three tasks, in strict order
The order is no accident: task 3 is the only one that feeds the project long-term — but it needs a finished, measured apparatus.
Agro →What's inside
The Multiple Wave Oscillator is 1930s spark technology: a spark gap, two Tesla coils and a pair of Lakhovsky antennas made of concentric open rings of different metals.
Signal path: mains → variac → HV transformer (tens of kV) → capacitor bank with chokes → V-type spark gap (tungsten, 800–4000 Hz) → Tesla coils (resonances from ≈3.3 MHz) → antennas (outer ring ≈45 MHz, total spectrum beyond 1000 MHz). The second antenna runs in antiphase; the object sits in the field between them.
A key property: the electric field component is strong, the magnetic one weak — which fundamentally distinguishes the MWO from magnetotherapy devices it is often confused with.
Device →What is known — and what is not
Lakhovsky existed, published, and received US patent 1,962,565 (1934). The apparatuses were built and used in 1930s clinics; reports survive. The device genuinely radiates a measurable broadband field.
Historical 1930s clinical reports: no control groups, results described in words rather than measurements, plus numerous anecdotal individual accounts. By modern standards unsubstantiated, but not refuted either.
The cell-as-resonant-circuit hypothesis is not accepted by modern cell biology. No clinical trials of the MWO with control groups, blinding and peer review exist. No mechanism of action has been demonstrated.
High voltage and radio interference
Inside the apparatus there are tens of kilovolts. This is not a toy, and it is not "safe for everyone". Mandatory: lid interlock, bleed resistors, RCD, shut-off timer, chassis earthing and ventilation (ozone/UV).
A spark transmitter pollutes the airwaves broadband by design: continuous noise ≈0–1500 MHz, ≈−45 dBm at 5 m. A running apparatus disturbs radio reception within ≈100 m; spark transmitters have been banned internationally since the 1930s. The solution — a shielded room / Faraday cage — has its own line in the budget.
If someone offers you such a device "for home use" without a word about shielding, they either haven't told you everything or don't know it themselves.
Safety →Where the money goes
The cost plan is open down to the last line, including the one usually kept quiet: payment for the author's work. A year of engineering cannot be done on the side. That is why the fee is its own line in the cost plan: 12 × €1,800.
Budget and reporting →| Reference device + measurement rig | 13,400 € |
| Prototype analogue | 11,500 € |
| Safety / EMC compliance | 9,000 € |
| Documentation + publication | 5,500 € |
| Author’s work, 12 months | 21,600 € |
| Reserve 10 % | 6,100 € |
| Payment fees ~5 % | 3,400 € |
| Total | 70,500 € |
Support tiers
The project needs: an RF engineer · an EMC and measurement specialist · a lawyer for international equipment trade · a videographer · translators (EN/DE) · a field-trial site for plants · a workshop. Non-financial contributions count equally with money.
First sources, collected over years
Lakhovsky's original works in French, English, German and Italian, US patent 1,962,565, German HF manuals 1927–1960 and electroculture material. The collection is growing step by step towards about 50 documents. Open and free, no registration.
Library →Everything happens in the open
Every two weeks a report: what was built, what was bought, what was spent, what failed. Oscillograms go up the day they are taken. Mistakes are described in more detail than successes — they teach more.
Journal →A device that hardly anyone can afford alone is funded by many together. The drawings and measurement data are then released under an open licence (CERN-OHL or CC BY-SA).
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