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One of the greatest energies in the universe is the force of gravitation. The
power potential of this force exceeds atomic energy and produces no deadly
gamma rays in the process. During this century, Thomas Townsend Brown
probably came closest to tapping the potential of this free and boundless
energy. Brown realized early on that mankind's use of power in jet- and
rocket-propelled vehicles is a "sledge and hammer" approach to gaining
high-speed, high-altitude flight. Engineers have increased vehicle thrust
significantly, but the gain in speed and power is marginal when compared to
the energy expended. Is brute rocket force the best way to reach the stars?
Brown didn't think so (1).
T. Townsend Brown displayed unorthodox behavior early in life. Born in
Zanesville, Ohio, on March 18, 1905, he made neighbors uneasy with his
unusual innovations. According to his autobiography, when he was only 8 or 10
years old, he wired an umbrella so that he could walk around his neighborhood
listening to the Victrola radio playing back in his house. He was able to
pick up the radio broadcast one block from his home. He also built a
clubhouse in the backyard that he rigged with various gadgets to impress his
friends. He rigged up the light so when he opened the door and said, "light
on," the lightbulb lit up.
It was reported that the discs buzzed with a soft hum, and in the dark they
emanated strange lavender light.
During World War I he created a stir by installing a large antenna on the top
of his house. With his custom-built radio and antennae, he was able to
receive radio signals from Germany, America's enemy in that war. Authorities
feared that his equipment was also capable of transmitting messages to
Germany. Brown was ordered to dismantle the antennae. The following year he
crafted a searchlight using an empty lard can that he began flashing into the
night sky. Alarmed neighbors quickly called the police and once again the
young teenager was forced to cease and desist his activities. On a trip to
New York with his mother, he contacted Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the
radio-telephone and vacuum tube. Townsend was only 16 years old when he
bought one of DeForest's vacuum tubes and brought it back home with him, but
he was able to construct a broadcasting station with it, the first such
transmitter in Ohio. Even though he used only 10 watts of energy to power the
transmitter, he received a postcard that he had been heard in California.
Every Saturday night at the local college, he broadcasted music by an amateur
orchestra called the "Green Imps." Although Dennison University turned off
the lights at 10 p.m. when the school's generator was shut down, Brown
devised an alternative system that carried the broadcast until 11 p.m. At
that time there were only two other broadcasting stations in the country, WJZ
of New York and KDKA of Pittsburgh.
While matriculating at the Institute of Technology (Caltech), Townsend failed
his chemistry and physics courses. He was a bright and ambitious student but
was discouraged because of the institution's policy limiting time spent on
experiments in the laboratory. Brown felt that he was never given enough time
to finish his experiments. He convinced his father Lewis to buy him enough
equipment to outfit a large laboratory on the second floor of their new home
in Pasadena, California. Although the expense was considerable, Brown Sr. was
supportive of his son's inventive nature. During this period Brown made
considerable progress in chemistry and physics. He devised an X-ray
spectrometer for astronomical measurements — specifically of the sun — and
began to cultivate the thesis that radiation (other than light) prevailed in
the universe. He felt that this radiation might be gravitation. This theory
called for gravitation to be a "push" and not a "pull." This seemed logical
in that Nature abhors a vacuum. Brown realized that a mechanism for the
transmission of gravitation was needed. When word of his new theory got out
among his classmates and teachers, he was shunned and ridiculed. Dr. Robert
Andrew Milikin, Director of Caltech, took him aside and explained in great
detail why such an explanation of gravitation was utterly impossible and not
to be considered. Dr. Milikin admonished Brown to complete his education
before giving any thought to such ideas.
As a boy T. Townsend Brown had been fascinated with boats and also the U.S.
Navy. Therefore it was only natural that he would later join the Navy as an
Apprentice Seaman which he did in September 1930. Awarded Honor Recruit by
his exemplary performance, he requested assignment to the Naval Radio School
in San Diego. When the Navy realized Brown's intellectual potential, he was
transferred to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., instead of
being assigned to a ship as would have been customary. Apprentice Seaman
Brown selected to study under Dr. Edwin Hulbert, who headed the Heat and
Light Division. The fledgling physicist was interested in Hulbert's work in
radiation, especially cosmic radiation, which was the doctor's specialty.
Brown continued his experiments that he had hypothesized at Caltech in 1923,
efforts that seemed to prove his concept of Gravitation. Although Hulbert's
assistant, Dr. Ross Gunn, remarked that "Brown's work wasn't worth the powder
to blow it up," equipment was built and all manner of tests were conducted in
an attempt to prove Brown's gravitational theory. Unfortunately, his
preliminary results were considered controversial and the research went
unnoticed.
During World War II Brown was assigned to the Acoustic and Magnetic Mines
Sweeping section of the Navy. As the officer in charge of magnetic and
acoustic minesweeping research and development, he devised a system to clear
the English Channel of German magnetic mines. Brown invented a wire cable
capable of conducting 300 amperes of power that ran inside a floatable
coating. The energized cable was dragged behind a ship in order to explode
the dangerous mine fields. Brown took out a patent on this idea, but it was
immediately labeled classified by the government and he heard nothing more.
The Nave utilized his basic idea, which is now accepted as the best method of
minesweeping today.
T. Townsend Brown's experience with electricity and gravitation brought him
in contact with Professor Paul Alfred Biefeld, Director of the Swazey
Observatory at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Brown joined Biefeld as
a staff member in the astrophysics research laboratory. Dr. Biefeld, who was
a colleague and close friend of Albert Einstein at the Polytechnium in Zurich
before coming to the United States, had been interested in the subject of
gravitation for many years. His enthusiasm coincided with Einstein's "Unified
Field Theory" and the new concept of "Relativity" which was gaining
recognition at that time. Einstein's complex Theory of Relativity changed the
way scientists conceived of space and time. If spacetime is distorted,
gravitation "loses its Newtonian interpretation as a tangible mechanical
force and gains the rank of an apparent force, due to the condition of space
itself." Dr. Biefeld stated, "I am constantly on the look-out for something
that might represent an electrodynamic-gravitational coupling." Brown once
asked Dr. Biefeld, "If a coupling did exist, what (physical) instrumentality
might it resemble?" Dr. Biefeld replied unequivocally, "the capacitor."
As a physicist, Brown believed that the concrete body of the universe is
nothing more than an assemblage of energy. To him it was self-evident that
matter is connected with gravitation and it followed logically that
electricity is similarly connected. He supposed that these two constituted
the true backbone of the universe (2 ). Brown spent the last thirty years of
his life working on his theory. Considered a scientific misfit in the United
States, some of his research was conducted in France, under French Government
sponsorship. Brown maintained that through the Biefeld-Brown Effect, a
coupling between electricity and gravitation had been established, brought
about and held by the simple means of an electrical condenser. An electrical
condenser is a device that absorbs electrical energy as an "elastic stress."
In its simplest form it can be just two metal plates. Placed between them is
a piece of material through which an electric current cannot ordinarily pass.
This in-between material, which can be glass, hard or soft rubber, air,
ceramics, paper and various plastics, is known as a dielectric. Some
dielectrics are capable of absorbing huge quantities of electrical energy if
fed into them slowly at low potentials. Others, like lead-free glass, can be
charged and discharged hundreds of thousands of times per second at extremely
high potentials.
The Biefield-Brown Effect suggests that an electrical condenser will move
toward its positive pole, and remain in such a position until discharged. The
movement does not nullify the scientific law that every action carries within
it an equal and opposite reaction force. A reaction force is present, but, in
the case of gravitation, it is not readily apparent. Using this technology,
Brown built disk-shaped airfoils 24 inches in diameter, which allegedly
attained speeds of 17 feet per second in his laboratory. The discs were a
variation of the simple two-plate condenser, charged with 50,000 volts of
direct electrical current. When tethered to a pole, they spun in a circular
path. The energy input needed to keep them flying is reported to have been
only 50 watts, which is just enough to light a small bulb. Brown also
designed experimental discs three feet in diameter. When they were charged
with 50 kilovolts, their speeds were reported to be so impressive that they
were quickly classified by the military. It was reported that the discs
buzzed with a soft hum, and in the dark they glowed and emanated strange
lavender light. Many scientists and engineers witnessed Brown's flying discs,
but few believed that the discs were propelled by the new principle Biefeld
and Brown had discovered. The lack of professional and financial support
forced him to France. In vacuum tests there, Brown said that the discs flew
even more efficiently.
Thomas Townsend Brown died at Avalon, Catalina Island, California on October
22, 1985. His laboratory was dismantled and much of the equipment sold.
Although most research on the Biefeld-Brown Effect ended with Brown's death,
it may now be time to revitalize interest in this potentially powerful
propulsion force. At the time of his death, Brown owned many patents on
various Electrokinetic equipment (3 ). The force of gravity is one of the
great mysteries confronting mankind today. If that mystery can be unraveled,
Thomas Townsend Brown's lifelong work may finally be validated.
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