This is the heart of Echo Water Machines. Electrolysis was discovered in the year 1800 by Dr. Anthony Carlisle. He was trying to find a way to produce hydrogen. Electrolysis works when water (hydrogen and oxygen, 2 gasses that form a liquid) goes into the electrolytic chamber and a small part is turned back into the gases that form it. The oxygen is then put into the acidic water and the hydrogen is dissolved into the alkaline water stream.