Over the years there have been umpteen theories devoted to how the Great Pyramid was built and what it was used for. Yet, there remains no proof of the Great Pyramid’s function, or that it even had a function. Quite by accident I became interested in the Great Pyramid through a little- known book called Pharaoh’s Pump. Inspired by it I endeavored to prove or disprove the theory that the Great Pyramid was a water pump, which I proved that it was not. However, while proving that the great Pyramid was not a water pump I also proved that the subterranean portion of the Great Pyramid functioned as a water pump.

This site is about my work during the last eight years, and my search to discover at least part of the Great Pyramid’s mystery. It is a collaboration with friend and author Edward Malkowski.

About Me, John Cadman

Chief Engineer on a Crab Boat

In the early days I was the chief engineer of Bering Sea king crab boats. With wind, waves, and ice where 30-foot swells are common and 50-foot swells with alarming regularity crabbing is the most dangerous profession in the world. We worked 20-hour days. Sleep deprivation to the point of delirium, frozen fingers numbed for months afterward, carpal tunnel, pure misery but the money was great. Crew members were smashed by 1000 pound crab pots or pulled overboard to a quick frozen death. Ice laden boats roll over every year.

Into the Mystery of the Great Pyramid

In early 1999 my wife and I moved onto our family’s undeveloped land; no water or power. An alternative source of energy had to be developed. In my search for alternatives I came across Richard Noone’s 5/5/2000: Ice The Ultimate Disaster in a small bookstore. It covered some of the less known material regarding the Great Pyramid. In Richard Noone’s book, he covered Edward Kunkel’s obscure book The Pharaoh’s Pump. Kunkel believed that the Great Pyramid was an amazingly efficient water pump that didn’t require electricity to function.

Being an experienced engineer and intrigued by Noone and Kunkel’s works, in June of 1999 I decided to build the lower half of Kunkel’s pump, what he refers to as the ‘construction pump.’ So, I scoured the internet, libraries, and book stores for any and all information I could find about the Great Pyramid’s subterranean chamber. Interestingly, although there are volumes of books on the Great Pyramid, there is very little accurate information about this room.

By August 1999, I had a prototype as described by Kunkel, and before my family and friends I turned it on. It was a failure and didn’t work. In fact, that prototype never did run. Kunkel was wrong about the layout.

Although Kunkel was wrong I believed he was on the right track. Nor could I get the notion of a subterranean water pump out of my mind. So much time was invested in the project and with my conviction that it might still be a water pump I forged ahead and developed a passion for ancient Egypt’s civilization.

April 2000 was met with success. I completed a working prototype and within a few months we were drawing water for our home. In this early design some of the details and conclusions were wrong, nonetheless, the prototype was essentially correct.

It was a historical event. To the best of my knowledge no one has ever modeled any part of the Great Pyramid to scientifically investigate what it may have been used for. I did and proved that the subterranean assembly of chambers and passageways were a ram-style pulse pump. Also to the best of my knowledge, my model is the first and only working version of the lower half of the Great Pyramid.

The next two years I continued to study the pulse pump and verified a number of details, and tried more than a hundred different configurations of the pump. Like my experience as a chief engineer in the Bering Sea the simplest configuration was the best.

The lower area of the Great Pyramid was a nearly indestructible machine with two or three moving parts and required almost no maintenance. It may have run for a hundred years, maybe a thousand or more.

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