Ralph+Sarich

=Ralph Sarich and the Orbital Engine= by Raj 5SA Ralph Tony Sarich was born on December 10th 1938. He is the engineer who invented the orbital engine and the orbital combustion process engine. These engines are environmentally friendly and very efficient.

Sarich became famous when he went on The Inventors TV program on ABCTV. (Miss Hill remembers seeing this show!)

He won the award for Australian Inventor of the Year and the Sir Lawrence Hartnett Inventor's Award in 1972 when he was 34 years old. He also won the Churchill Society of Engineers medal in 1987 and the Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award in 1991.

Sarich became very rich and in 2007 had about $800 million dollars. He is a very generous man and has given more than $20 million dollars to medical research. He became interested in spinal cord and brain injuries because he was severely injured in a car crash when he was younger.

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