The Rife story is an involved, bitterly disputed story, generally distorted with fanciful embroideries and has reached near mythic proportions in some accounts of his life and work. Moreover much of the supposed teaching and documentary material in circulation about Rife comes from people who are trying to promote their own me-too versions of the Rife machine and their documentary evidence is often suspect, to say the least.

Rife was unarguably a brilliant technician. He was hired by Henry Timken, an industrial magnate, and under Timken’s sponsorship produced the most technologically advanced speedboat marine engine of the day (1915), generating 2700 HP.

Rife went on with Timken’s support to develop microscopes and almost perfected the art, producing compounded quartz prisms in a glycerine bath, which gave resolutions of up to 50,000 diameters; this was at a time when the best commercial laboratory microscopes could give only up to 2,000 diameters. Rife’s Universal Microscope was without doubt the greatest optical instrument ever designed; no-one can seriously question this aspect of Rife’s work.

It’s what he SAW that started the acrimony and disputation.

Read more on my Rife pages, starting here Rife Machines