Once upon a time, a brilliant inventor named Nikola Tesla was making waves in the scientific community with his groundbreaking discoveries. Tesla's discoveries went beyond paving the way for wireless energy transmission and revolutionizing electricity to include therapeutic applications as well.

One of the researchers who continued Tesla’s line of investigations was Georges Lakhovsky, a Russian émigré who invented the Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO). Christopher Bird, the author of The Secret Life of Plants and as well as other books, described Lakhovsky as seeming to have been an associate of, or a colleague of Tesla.

The therapeutic value of light and color therapy has been investigated since before the turn of the last century. Notable researchers from the period who influenced the development of the BioCharger NG include Alexander Gurwitsch, among others.

During the 1920s and ’30s, Rife reportedly achieved astounding accomplishments in medicine and biology. He first invented and built five novel optical microscopes that allowed him to observe viruses in live cells and tissue cultures.