In early 1960, the University of Florida , Department of Agriculture, conducted experiments using the Aranair units manufactured by my father. The results of the experiments were very rewarding and led to the publishing of a report for the Florida State Horticultural Society (October 25-27, 1960) in which R.O. Magie, Plant Pathologist, Gulf Coast Experiment Station, stated the use of Ozone as a deterrent to the fungus, Botrytis. On July 18, 1962, R.O. Magic wrote my father a letter stating that:
This is to certify that the air purifiers that I used in my disease control tests with gladiolus and chrysanthemum flowers were YOUR ARANAIR UNITS. (Emphasis added by T.N.Trikilis) I used these units over a two year period in small and large cabinets as well as in rooms. We used them at room temperature and in cold storage rooms.”

Since my father’s patent was not granted until 1965, the use of ARAN and ARANAIRE were not used as much as Ozone by the scientific community since the “Theory of a molecule having more than three (3) atoms to it was difficult at best to believe yet prove”. Yet, in 1964, the copyright for ARAN was registered in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and one year later the Patent Office registered the patent for the ARAN generator to Nick Trikilis.

Today, there are those in the Ozone field that will not acknowledge the presence or existence of ARAN since to recognize ARAN is to “outdate” the Ozone applications and obviously create a competitor that has much more to offer the customer than Ozone.
The first steps taken by T. Nick Trikilis for ARAN – AQUA Pollution Control Systems will be to publish the many testimonials obtained by Nick Trikilis through the thirty years he endeavoured to pursue the ARAN dream.

Drew Pearson, the noted columnist who wrote “Inside Washington,” was my father’s personal friend. He interviewed my father in 1960 for the Television Program, “New Horizons” which aired nationally from August, 1960, through December of 1960. As he tried to introduce my father to people in Washington D.C. that could have helped my father in the early years, this effort was cut short by Mr. Pearson’s untimely death.

In a letter from Thomas Curren, New Horizons Productions, Mr. Curran writes:
“Mr. Pearson was quite pleased and said that your product is really one that is worthwhile…” (Excerpt March 14th, 1960)

It is difficult for anyone to give guarantees on any product in which both the uninformed public and the governmental “experts” truly believe a “substance to be harmful to human Health.” Yet, the fact that ARAN is really Oxygen, and Oxygen is the most important substance in sustaining Human Life, makes one believe than anything that is pure and unpolluted certainly cannot be harmful to the Human Being. The logic does not follow that Oxygen is harmful to health, however Oxides of Nitrogen, present in Ozone-producing equipment, is. And perhaps this is where the true controversy begins.

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