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April 9, 1993
BROWN4.ASC
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Vangard Note..
This file brought up a curious comment regarding a possible
correlation between stock market fluctuations and some kind of
planetary correspondence that could be detected by Townsend
Browns' Electrometer, an electrostatically energized device
suspended in oil.
Further information regarding this effect is taken from File :
24-185, Subject : Special Inquiry into "The Townsend Brown
Electro-Gravity Device", a Comprehensive Evaluation by the Office
of Naval Research, with accompanying documents, dated 15
September 1952.
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from the Los Angeles Times - Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1952
Flying Saucers 'Explained' by Men of
New Research University Here
Two metal-plexiglass disks suspended from a central pylon swung
through slow circles in a darkened room yesterday as spokesmen for a
new university sought to convince newsmen they have solved the
flying saucer mystery.
"We have hesitated to divulge our findings," said Mason Rose,
president of the University for Social Research, "because they read
too much like science fiction..."
Substance of the alleged discovery, credited to Inventor Townsend
Brown, is that saucers operate in a field of "electro-gravity" that
"acts like a wave with the negative pole at the top and the positive
pole at the bottom."
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Travel Like Surfboard
"The saucer travels like a surfboard on the incline of a wave that
is kept continually moving by the saucer's electro-gravitational
generator," explained Bradford Shank, third spokesman for the group
claiming knowledge "almost too sensational, too spectacular."
All three men are convinced that flying saucers are real,
"controlled by an intelligence rather than a pilot" and capable of
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speeds up to that of light - 186,000 miles a second.
Their research is new and novel, they insist, and "it is distinctly
improbable it has been duplicated anywhere in the world."
Experiments coupling electricity and gravitation that apparently go
even beyond Einstein's unified field theory.
Asked about official government study of their findings, Rose said
details had been given to "some Navy admirals" but as yet there was
no censorship. He talked guardedly about military "interest" in the
work but declined to mention specific agencies.
He spoke too about the early trials and tribulations of Marconi,
Edison and the Wright brothers. The three men said space travel
will be possible within 10 years.
At one point Shank was asked if he had a degree.
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"Superior Intelligence"
"No," he acknowledged, "I'm free of those encumbrances. That's why
I find it so easy to talk in these new terms." To all deadend
questions there was the answer, "A superior intelligence thousands
of years ahead of ours would have many answers we don't know about."
For more than four years Brown has been attempting to predict the
ups and downs of the stock market with electronic apparatus he
installed in the basement of a building on S. Spring Street. His
equipment, he said, registers small variations in sidereal or cosmic
rays which bombard the earth from outer space.
These rays, in some yet unexplained manner, are suspected of
influencing human psychology. Brown declined to say how his stock
market "barometer" has worked.
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(source as noted from the title page of BROWN4.ASC on KeelyNet)
Confidential Security Information
An Investigation relative to Thomas Townsend Brown
by Willoughby M. Cady
Office of Naval Research, Pasadena
(a possible clue as to the construction of his
electrogravitic detector mechanism follows)
2.4 There has been briefly inspected a third electrical device,
purporting to be a communication equipment operating on waves
related to the electrogravitic effect. It appears that the
transmitter is simply a relaxation oscillator consisting of a high
tension DC power supply, a high (value) resistor, and a condensor
which periodically discharges through a short gap.
The receiver, shown in Figure 2, consists of two Pyranol capacitors
0-5mf, two titanium oxide capacitors 500mmf, a Brush recorder, and a
bypass capacitor 0.1mf to prevent the recorder from oscillating.
Two terminals in the circuit are charged as indicated before
reception and left floating during reception.
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The bridge of four capacitors is housed in a cabinet, indicated by a
dashed line, which forms an obviously imperfect shield against
electromagnetic radiation, when the transmitter is operated in an
adjoining room, the Brush recorder jumps with each spark. Mr. Brown
states that the effect is present, but reduced, if the 25KV
potentials are not applied.
If the Pyranols are short circuited and removed, the effect is still
reported present. No attempt has been made at conscious
electromagnetic shieldings of either the transmitter or the
receiver. In the writer's opinion the response may be the result of
a chance rectifying contact.
The relation between the communication device and the mechanical
effects which form the topic of this report (levitation) appears so
remote that no further mention will be made of the former.
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The Brown Electrometer
5.0 In a small thermostated room in the second basement of the
Banks-Huntley Building, (address censored), Los Angeles, there is a
continuing experiment which shows an extension of the basic
phenomenon. This apparatus is the Brown Electrometer.
This device is housed in an oil-filled tank of half-inch steel,
perhaps two feet in diameter and a foot deep, with a half-inch steel
cover. In the tank there is suspended a horizontal disc 12" in
diameter and one inch thick, made of six segments of pine wood
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alternating with six of marble around an 8" hub of Bakelite. The
sections are separated by 1 X 2 X 1/16 inch copper strips.
Alternate strips are grounded to a central metal stem supporting the
disc which is attached to a music-wire suspension 0.018" in diameter
and 6-3/8" long; the remaining copper strips connect to a central
iron tit at the center of the hub, which dips into a cup of mercury.
The disc is surrounded by a grounded metal shield which is attached
to the tank and which stands at a clearance of 1/2 inch above and
below the disc and 1-1/2 inch radially; this shield is centrally
perforated at the top and bottom for the suspension and the tit.
A sequencing device in a cabinet below the tank causes a half-wave
smoothed DC power supply to impress upon the mercury cup a well-
regulated negative potential of 11.1KV resulting in a leakage
current of 0.45ma. The sequencer leaves the voltage on for 30
seconds, causing the disc to rotate several degrees.
After 30 seconds, a short spark is made to jump from a point
projecting about 9 inches horizontally in air from the stem of the
disc, and perforates a rice-paper strip wound on a drum which
rotates once each day. The voltage is then turned off and the disc
returns to its relaxed position, which is recorded by a separate
spark. The cycle repeats every three minutes. The apparatus
appears to be well engineered and extremely reliable.
5.1 Mr. Brown has given attention for several years to the
variations in the deflections of this electrometer. On the spark
record the rest position is 50 units and the deflected reading is
about 80. Until about a year and a half ago (written in 1952, so
estimated mid 1950), the deflected position was about 20, but
suffered a gradual change to its present value at that time.
Aside from reversal of sign, the deflection undergoes fluctuations
whose character is less dramatic but still large, e.g. 10-50%. The
cause of these fluctuations has been sought by Mr. Brown by seeking
for correlations between them and various outside influences, such
as magnetic storms, temperature, pressure, the time of the year,
civil time, lunar time, siderial time, and the Dow-Jones average.
Only the last five correlations are claimed. Tabulated data are
available only for the year 1937. Hourly recordings throughout the
year are tabulated, for both civil and lunar time.
The writer has seen no convincing evidence that the stock market and
the automatic record are correlated, although it is claimed that a
chi-square analysis has been performed, with POSITIVE RESULTS.
(the tables are intentionally not included in this file since they
simply furnish data, if you wish a copy of the tables as taken from
the document, drop us a line here at KeelyNet)
5.3 By the foregoing sketchy analysis of the data from the Brown
Electrometer, the following conclusions are implied:
a) Through the weeks and months the data drift significantly;
b) There is NO evidence of a solar diurnal period synchronizing
with the sun, as claimed by Brown.
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c) There is NO evidence of a lunar diurnal period synchronizing
with the moon, as claimed by Brown. On the contrary, the
data appear most emphatically to deny such a period.
5.4 Two related experiments have been described by Mr. Brown which
throw light on the reason for the deflections if not on the reason
for their fluctuations.
5.4.1 In one, the sector disc was held stationary while a grounded
metal disc was suspended over it in the oil, by a torsion fibre.
When the sector disc was charged a motion of the adjacent oil was
noted by Mr. Brown. The suspended disc deflected, but not when a
glass plate was interposed between the sector disc and the suspended
disc.
5.4.2 The other related experiment concerns an oil-immersed annulus
described by Mr. Brown as 2 feet in diameter and six inches thick,
made of LEAD OXIDE (PbO) and paraffin in eight segments separated by
eight copper strips alternately charged positive and negative.
By means of a probe the potential distribution on the PbO and
parrafin surfaces was explored and it was noted that whereas the
gradient was uniform across the edges of the lead oxide sectors, the
gradient on the parrafin was steepest near the negative electrodes.
This observation means that the steepest gradients ARE ALL IN THE
SAME DIRECTION, e.g. CLOCKWISE. It was also noted that the
application of high voltage to the electrodes of this disc caused a
lively motion of the oil.
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8.4 (see paragraph 5) The disc of the Brown Electrometer shown in
Figure 5, develops a torque in response to an applied voltage. The
field in the oil is strongest in the regions A. B. C. D. where the
oil is in contact with the electrodes separating the pine sectors P
from the marble sectors M.
(circles are almost impossible to draw in ASCII, but here
goes since you really need to see the diagram - KeelyNet)
Figure 5 DA P - Pine
/-------|---------\BC M - Marble
BC \ M | P / \
/ \ __|__ / \DA
DA \ P \ / + \ / M / \
/ \ / - \ / \
| M \ / + + \/ |
| | | P |
CB |-------| - - |--------|BC
| P | + + | M |
| / \ / \ |
\ / M \ - + - / \ /
AD \ / \ ______/ \ P \AD
\ / P | M \ /
CB \________|_________/CB
AD
The Rotor of the Brown Electrometer
(note between each P and M section, the alternating charges)
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Positive ions formed at the electrodes as in a corona discharge will
produce positive space charges at the regions A. & D. while regions
B. & C. will have negative space charges. In the oil these will
cause effects analogous to the electric wind in air.
If the fields A. B. C. D. are equally strong the ion densities will
be such as to give no net torque to the disc. We will assume, on
the other hand, that the surface of the pine sectors allows a
leakage current; this will have the effect of reducing the field in
the regions A. & B. and will leave the regions C. & D. dominant in
the production of force.
The positive ions at D. will TEND TO ROTATE the disc CLOCKWISE while
the negatives will tend to rotate it counterclockwise. Since their
mobilities differ there will be a net torque in one or the other
direction, as observed.
If the chemistry of the oil or the insulating sectors changes with
the surface conductivity of the marble could become larger than that
of the pine, causing a reversal of the torque. Aside from surface
conductivity, other attributes may distinguish the marble from the
pine. For example, a net torque might be caused by the influence of
different dielectric constants from the field distribution, or if
alternate sectors all project slightly beyond the electrodes.
A net torque may result from or be influenced by the surface
conductivity of the pine and marble. If one is more conductive than
the other, the field pattern will be made unsymmetrical (see
paragraph 5.4.2 above) and the torque will be altered.
It is possible that the slow fluctuations in the Brown Electrometer
are caused by changes in the surfaces. The faster fluctuations may
be caused by particles suspended in oil, which may temporarily rest
at such points as A. or B., changing the corona there temporarily.
8.5 The experiment reported in paragraph 5.4.1, would seem to
corroborate the idea that a swirling of the oil is essential to the
operation of the electrometer. This idea is in accord with the
electric wind theory, whether or not the discussion in paragraph 8.4
is valid in detail.
8.6 It is claimed that the deflections of the electrometer show
certain periodicities. If these are real they show inadequacy of
the electric wind hypothesis. Their reality is assessed in the
crude and preliminary analysis contained in paragraph 5.2 and
summarized in paragraph 5.3.
There is no manifest solar diurnal period and no manifest lunar
diurnal period. No test has been applied for the claimed siderial
diurnal period or for the correlation with the value of financial
securities.
Neither has it been possible to determine whether the slow changes
in deflection are repeated annually as claimed; however the fact
that the deflections once annually permanently reversed direction
would seem to discourage this claim.
This reversal is attributable to changed surface conductivity of the
sectors of the disc. It is concluded that the short study
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(paragraph 5) of the readings of the Brown Electrometer does not
weaken the hypothesis that all the (censored: probably reads,
"phenomena reported by Mr. Brown") are the result of electric wind.
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Vangard Note
We had a call from a Mr. Paul Stowe relating the use of lead
oxide by Brown in the construction of his "gravitator". Mr.
Stowe thinks a layered version of this lead oxide might be used
to construct a "collector" as postulated by Bearden in his paper
"The Final Secret to Free Energy" and listed on KeelyNet as
FREENRG3.ZIP.
The following refers to the thrust developed in one experiment
but the interesting point is the description of the construction
of the condenser dielectric.
"The condenser dielectric was either homogenous or laminated. In
one laminated version, 10,000 sheets of 0.001 inch lead foil were
separated by an equal number of 3 X 3" sheets of 0.0008 inch
cellulose acetate in a formica box (sounds like an orgone
accumulator to me), to make 10,000 condensers in a series
arrangement weighing 10kg."
"The acceleration exhibited by this device when suitably mounted is
claimed to have been 2.5cm per sec^ (where the symbol ^ = squared)
when the electrodes were charged, evidencing a force of 25,000 dynes
or about 25gm; the homogeneous type is stated by Mr. Brown to have
had comparable thrust. The force was usually TOWARD the positive
electrode, although in some units it was toward the negative; this
effect was attributed to a "polarization"."
"The force is stated to have been STRONGER at some time than others,
correlating with the position of the sun and moon. Data are
displayed which relate to the angular speed of a pivoted gravitator,
and which show half a dozen large fluctuations in a day; some of
these can perhaps be construed as being dips simultaneous with the
rise or setting of the sun or moon."
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