Veljko Milkovic

Veljko Milkovic is a hero in his home town of Novi Sad, Serbia. And for good reason. Veljko has conceived of and constructed new eco homes there, warmer in winter and still warm for the cool evenings of a Novi Sad summer. His books, Antigravity Motor, Towards anti-gravitation - compact vehicles, Perpetuum mobile and others have resulted in the antigravity cart, a vehicle with a single or double off center pendulum.

Milkovic builds his own devices and complains about a decline in the art and elegance of mechanical devices of yesteryear. When asked if he grew up near Nikola Tesla’s birthplace he replied, ‘Related to your question about Tesla's and my birth place, I forgot to say to you that my parents were born and lived in the region of Lika (today Croatia), the same region where Tesla was born and lived. So it could be said we are countrymen.’

Near Milkovic’s town of Novi Sad there stands a most incredible edifice calle Petrovaradin Fortress. At the moment the Petrovaradin fortress is a magnificent but relatively undiscovered relic of monumental proportions with vast underground caverns said to reach as far as 20km. Veljko wants to make it as popular as the pyramids. An idea that would prove of economic benefit to the people of Novi Sad. And if he can pull off his vision, first to the world scientific community to investigate the catacombs, his idea of a Serbian Disney-esque Ancient Land might just do wonders for the Serbian Tourist Bureau. But the Petrovaradin Fortress is real. Not a Disney creation.

Researcher, inventor, innovator and writer, Milkovic has amassed 110 inventions and 36 approved patents to date. His most recent experiments in single and double mechanical oscillations have produced a pump that returns 12 times the energy required to operate the unit. ‘Push down once with one finger and it pumps liters into your bucket.’ Is the pendulum at it’s height and does the pushing of the button release the pendulum from its height? If this is true does the energy required to once again raise the pendulum get factored in to the 12 times energy return? Milkovic’s reponse was that the pendulum was activated by hand and although measurements may not be critically exact, they definitely indicate more energy out than in.

It is said that during the time of Einstein many other scientists would prove things mathematically but never actually do experiments. If the math proved it, it must be true. Veljko Milkovic points to an error in judgement for anyone to simply accept the calculus as absolute proof. This is where his ability to build contraptions of his mind exhibits an artistic craftsmanship. His mechanical devices are one of a kind and like modern works of art, just as so many machines and gadgets of the past have become.

We salute Veljko Milkovic, not just for helping to help save mechanics as artists of the world, but also for his ingenious and artful ways of displaying principles without fuel or magnets or springs or batteries. And the truly astounding idea of using the leading edge of inertia as an energy source to be scaled up.