Wilhelm Reich and orgone timeline

Reich conducts and publishes the Oslo bion work that later becomes central to the origin story of orgone.

After immigrating to the United States, Reich develops orgone as a biological and atmospheric energy claim.

The orgone accumulator becomes the key device for Reich’s biological and medical claims.

The observatory at Orgonon is built and later preserved as part of the Wilhelm Reich Museum setting.

Reich begins work on orgone energy and nuclear radiation, later central to DOR and atmospheric claims.

The Maine blueberry-rain story becomes the best-known cloudbuster anecdote.

The decree of injunction against Reich and the foundation is entered by default.

Reich conducts desert and cloudbusting experiments in Arizona, later linked to Contact with Space.

The First Circuit later records that the defendants were tried by jury and found guilty.

Accumulators, parts, and orgone-related materials are destroyed under the court order.

Reich dies while incarcerated at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Resin, metal, and crystal orgonite becomes a distinct subculture borrowing orgone vocabulary.