Townsend Brown and His Anti-Gravity
Discs
Thomas Townsend Brown has been flying strange metal
saucer-like discs of his own secret design and make for more than 30
years - some big ones too, up to 30 inches in diameter!
Mostly, Brown has flown his discs in good old common
air. The discs are tethered to a mast or pole and the thin,
double-saucer-like things fly a circle around and around the mast in
free flight.
Only a slight hum is audible as they fly. In the dark
they glow with an eerie lavender light, revealing their motive power
which is a kind of electricity.
Many scientists and engineers have watched these discs
fly. Under their breath, and sometimes out loud, most of them have
said the force which makes Brown's discoids spin is one which every
high- school physics student knows about - "Electric Wind" - and not a
new principle Brown has discovered at all!
One engineer told me, "The whole thing is so screwball I
don't want to even talk about it!" Another said, "The device is only
about one-tenth of one percent efficient." Both these statements have
since been proved incorrect! Most other engineers object to the lack
of mathematical substantiation presented by Brown. To engineers and
scientists one equation is worth a thousand words! But even an
equation is of little use unless it has values assigned to at least
some of its main parts. When these were not forthcoming, from a
technical point of view, it appeared Brown was walking on straw legs.
Then recently Brown went to France. Under what was
virtually a French Government sponsored program of research,
Air-France successfully flew some of the Brown discs in a HIGH VACUUM!
And that took all the "electric wind" out of the
previously dissenting sails1 These tests were of a highly secret
nature and, because of this, and, because they were made in a foreign
nation, their results REMAIN CLASSIFIED.
One by one, U.S. engineering and scientific heads are
beginning to show above the storm cellars. It is now quietly admitted
that perhaps Brown may have something after all!
One thing he DOES have which he has not had before is a
sponsor! Perhaps that is the reason for the heads showing from the
cellars. There is nothing quite like having financial backing.
What do Brown's inventions mean? Another kind, type, or
arrangement of high-speed flight, both within our own atmosphere and
in the space beyond it!
How will it compare as a motive force with the rocket
motors and the jet engines of today? Of course, we cannot say yet but
there is nothing to indicate Brown's method will not compete most
favorably with them. Brown's method has definite "anti-gravitic
potentials' which their rockets or jets do not have. Because of
present patent situations many details of the Brown system must be
by-passed here, but it seems they represent no small item in the total
picture of space flight.
Since 1923 Brown and his family have spent nearly
$250,000 of their own funds on experiments and research into the
mysteries of that strangest of strange electrical phenomenon, the
"Biefeld-Brown Effect". Electrical literature contains few writings on
this subject, mostly because Brown has maintained a tight grip on the
information and has not seen fit to write on the matter scientifically
or otherwise. No one else has seemed inclined to research the matter.
What is more American scientific journals are open to few ideas that
DO NOT ORIGINATE with men CONNECTED WITH LARGE UNIVERSITY or
COMMERCIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES!
I first heard of Townsend Brown and his Biefeld-Brown
Effect from Mr. Arlin C. Hauser. Hauser is a designer and builder of
fine technical instruments in Pasadena who doesn't hold an idea at
arms- length because it is "new". Hauser furnished me a copy of a
monograph titled, "A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION OF THE APPLICATION OF THE
BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SPACE
NAVIGATION". This monograph was published by Dr. Mason Rose, president
of the University for Social Research, Los Angeles, but was actually
written, I learned later, by Mr. Bradford Shank, a nuclear scientist,
formally of Los Alamos, now engaged in engineering work for a Los
Angeles aircraft valve manufacturer.
Some of the information set forth in this monograph rang
a bell way back in my memory.
Between 1919 and 1925 I was "errand boy" in a laboratory
conducting experiments with high potential, high frequency alternating
currents. We were playing with a million volts at 750,000 cycles per
second! A new type of electrical condenser had been built and was to
be tested. It was hooked into the circuit but was not "bolted down" -
it was heavy.
The director stood at the switchboard; the rest of us at
a respectful distance away. The switch was thrown. There was a hum, a
bursting flash of green and purple light, a loud bang, a violent lurch
and twist of the new condenser and that piece of apparatus lay a
smoking ruin! The director said, "Gentlemen, our baby has grown up!"
It is this movement manifest in an electrical condenser
which is the essence of the Biefeld-Brown Effect. This movement makes
the Effect highly interesting as an anti-gravitic force!
The Biefeld-Brown Effect says an electrical condenser,
when charged, will MOVE TORWARD its positive pole and remain so
positioned UNTIL DISCHARGED, if free to do so, regardless of WHICH
POLE or WHICH SIDE of the dielectric is made positive.
This movement does not disregard the time-honored "law"
which indicates every action carries within it an equal reaction. The
reaction, as in gravitation, is present BUT NOT OBVIOUS. The reaction
is a finite but vanishingly small movement of all the other matter in
the Universe. But the nearest masses are affected first and most!
The Effect was first observed when the condenser plates
were charged with a DIRECT CURRENT. But the experience noted above,
which was observed subsequently during other experiments, indicates
something of the same phenomenon is present when condensers are
charged with ALTERNATING current also - but probably not as
effectively or as lastingly.
While these alternating current condenser MOVEMENTS were
noted at the time, especially when the condensers were initially
charged after a long and complete discharge, those directing the
research then believed the movements were due to resonances set up
within the apparatus by the 60-cycle feed currents. Thus, this
phenomenon, though noted, was never investigated by the group to which
I was attached.
This electrical condenser movement is believed to have
been first perceived and examined by Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld,
professor of physics and astronomy, Denison University, Granville,
Ohio, sometime before 1923.
However, search of the Denison University's own
published scientific records does not indicate Dr. Biefeld wrote
anything regarding this discovery while there. Dr. Lawrence Biefeld, a
son of Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, writes me that he does not recall his
father ever having mentioned discovering such an effect! However, Mr.
Bradford Shank who has been intimately associated with several phases
of the Townsend Brown Foundation and its work for several years
relates that Dr. Biefeld did originate the initial research into the
Effect itself and also directed Townsend Brown, then a student at
Denision University, in Brown's early interest in the matter.
Although the Effect may have been recognized first by
Dr. Biefeld, a greater part of the development research and ALL the
practical application of it has been carried on by Brown - mostly at
his own expense, over a period of more than 30 years.
Apparently the Effect was named by someone else writing
a report on the subject. But had it not been for Townsend Brown's long
interest and research this Effect might remain unrecorded and
unexploited still!
Evidence indicates the entire Universe, from the
greatest systems of stars and their planets down to the smallest atom
and its parts - hydrogen - operates on only three basic forces -
electricity, magnetism and gravitation. These three forces may be
entirely separate and different or they may be only different phases
of the same force, a Universal force we have not yet distinguished as
such. Regardless of this, we know the relationship between electricity
and magnetism and we know this relationship is brought about and
maintained by the very simple COIL OF WIRE!
It is quite possible, through the Biefeld-Brown Effect,
we have come upon the relationship between electricity and
gravitation, a relationship being brought about and maintained through
the very simple electrical condenser!
If each of these three forces is considered separately,
we find little of practical value in any of them! It is only through
combinations of two, and perhaps more, that we begin to use them.
Aside from the researches into the Biefeld-Brown Effect
carried on by Mr. Brown science has done practically nothing toward
developing the relationship between electricity and gravitation.
Most scientists today will admit a weak COUPLING EFFECT
DOES EXIST BETWEEN GRAVITATION AND ELECTRICITY but any practical use
of this coupling effect they deny!
Standing almost alone in this belief Mr. Brown has
maintained his position regarding the matter stubbornly, faithfully,
and devotedly.
If a simple, two-plate electrical condenser (FIGURE 1)
is suspended by a cord in such a way as to allow it complete freedom
to to move in any direction, except downward of course, and this
condenser is charged with the proper amount and pressure of direct
electric current the instrument will swing TOWARD the side holding the
POSITIVE CHARGE.
If this same condenser is discharged, the positive and
negative wires switched and connected oppositely, when recharged the
condenser will swing in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
If the condenser is placed upon one side of a balanced
beam (FIGURE 2) with enough weight opposite it to continue the balance
and if the positive pole is pointed up, when the condenser is charged
the weight on the opposite side of the beam will fall and the entire
condenser WILL RISE!
This shows that some of the "weight" of the condenser
has been relieved. If the positive pole now is reversed, when the
condenser is again charged the weight on the opposite end of the beam
WILL BE LIFTED! This illustrates gravitic affect.
This is the Biefeld-Brown Effect. As far is now known it
is the only method of affecting the gravitational field electrically!
However, apparently there are several other research programs now
under way attempting to establish an electro-gravitic relationship.
One of the mysteries of this Effect is that it APPEARS
TO BE AFFECTED BY TIME! Time does not do away with the Effect
completely, but it does appear to minimize it temporarily. This was
noted first by Brown during experiments located in a closed room.
He watched his discs through a telescope from outside
the room. Brown observed that after a time the discs did not swing
quite so far as initially, in either direction, with the same electric
charge. I understood from Mr. Shank that this point was discussed with
Albert Einstein but what Mr. Einstein had to say remains unknown to
me.
The phenomenon might be accounted for by subtle atomic
structural breakdowns in the dielectric material, or in the plate
material, or both. After a time, following a complete discharge, these
breakdowns mend themselves.
The intensity with which the Biefeld-Brown Effect may
act is determined by five factors. Ultimate intensity cannot possibly
be obtained by a combined use of all five factors - each in their
separate ultimates! A compromise must be made. This is not as grave a
disadvantage as it might seem at first, for it will allow an almost
endless arrangement of factors in any given disc or ship.
The best combination of these then may be chosen and
applied to a wide variety of practical conditions which will surely
arise in everyday aeronautical or astronautical flight.
1) PROXIMITY OF PLATES
The first factor regulating the intensity of the Effect
is controlled by the closeness at which the condenser's plates can be
set. If the charging pressure - or voltage - is high then the plates
will have to be farther apart than for lower voltages -using the same
dielectric. If it is necessary to charge the condenser quickly a
higher voltage is needed than if more time can be taken. Hence, the
closer the condenser plates the greated the Effect gained - other
circumstances remaining the same.
2) DIELECTRIC CONSTANT
The second factor is the ability of the material chosen
as a dielectric to store electrical energy. There are many kinds of
dielectrics: glass, mica, rubber, paper, bakelite, air, ceramics, and
many of the plastics. A dielectric is any material which opposes the
flow of an electric current and at the same time is capable of storing
the electrical energy as an "elastic stress."
The action resembles the squeezing of a soft rubber
ball. The muscles in your hand represent the electric voltage. They
squeeze the ball's sides together. The sides remain squeezed until
your muscles release their pressure, then the sides jump back into
their original shape.
A dielectric will absorb an electric charge until its
capacity has been reached. Then it will either hold that charge as
long as the charging force is present, or it will rupture and the
pressure will leak away, or if the accumulated pressure becomes
greater than the charging pressure it will discharge itself back into
the charging circuit! This last can raise the devil!
Some dielectrics are capable of absorbing a great
quantity of electrical energy if that energy is applied slowly at
moderate pressure, but they break down if called upon to act quickly.
Other dielectrics, like lead-free glass, can be charged
and discharged thousands of times a second at high pressures. The
measure of a dielectric's ability is called the "K" of the material.
The higher the K, the greater is the Biefeld-Brown Effect.
3) INTENSITY
A third factor in creating intensity of the Effect is
the AREA of the dielectric's charging plates. The discs are used
edgewise, and the greater their area, the greater the Effect obtained.
4) VOLTAGE
A fourth factor has to do with the VOLTAGE, or pressure
used to charge the condenser's plates. The higher the voltage, the
greater the Effect.
Also, the higher the voltage the shorter the time
required to charge a given condenser size. But the voltage must not be
so high as to puncture the dielectric, the condenser is permanently,
or temporarily ruined - depending upon its ability to "heal" itself.
Solid dielectrics cannot heal themselves. Fluids heal themselves
almost as soon as punctured. (the reason for using OIL filled
capacitors...Vangard)
5) MASS (SURFACE AREA)
The fifth and last factor is the MASS ofthe dielectric.
The greater the mass, the larger the Effect.
These points all are important. They make it clear that by a not too
complicated electrical arrangement which allows the changing of many
positive pole positions at will an astronautical vehicle could be
controlled.
Since a circle contains the greatest number of square
units of surface for a given dimension (a torus has even greater
surface area...Vangard), it seems obvious that a shallow, disc-shaped
vehicle could use this type of energy field to greatest advantage. It
would be charged differently than the models because it could carry
its own charging equipment on board.
The input energy of some models tested in California
quite some time ago (they do not represent present experimental
attainments) was about 50 watts, or the requirements of a small light
bulb.
The weight of these units was about 1200 grams, or
around 42 ounces, or near two and 6/10 pounds. The efficiency of
propulsion was 2%.
Unless scientific findings are discounted, we must
assume the voltage of atmospheric electricity rises as the distance
from the earth's surface increases.
At low altitudes we sometimes record an increase of 100
volts for EVERY THREE FEET IN ELEVATION. But this increase RISES WITH
ALTITUDE. It is believed that in that ionosphere a potential of 100
volts may occur within only four inches!
Even though a discoid-shaped vehicle could be relatively
thin, compared to its diameter, still it would be many times four
inches thick. Hence, it would be subjected to tremendous differentials
of external electric pressure over its extreme dimensions.
How will this affect the Biefeld-Brown Effect - or any
electrically propelled vehicle? Some say, not at all. Others see it as
a sizable barrier!
Anti-gravity devices apparently are being experimented
with from a number of directions. Once any one of them becomes
practical a whole new horizon will unfold before mankind.
At the present time (1958) some 19 patent applications,
covering the Biefeld-Brown Effect and its various applied forms, are
being worked on. A new laboratory is also being built. Will Mr. Brown
be the first Earthman to build and fly a FLYING SAUCER?
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Vangard notes..
The Law of Equilibrium includes Density. All things Rise
or Fall to their own Density. This density can consist of energy in
many forms, electric, magnetic, tachyon, etc.
Note the remark regarding the higher voltage potentials
in the upper atmosphere. Both the Brown disc and the Searle disc rely
on very high voltage potentials to provide lift. The question is
whether the electricity seeks its own upper atmosphere level or does
it cause some kind of stress in some other type of energy to cause
repulsion from the Earth surface or ATTRACTION TO A LAYER EQUIVALENT
TO ITS OWN.
ICQ 67216572
by Gaston Burridge