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