(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2) Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 There are ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS on duplicating, publishing or distributing the files on KeelyNet except where noted! April 9, 1993 BROWN4.ASC -------------------------------------------------------------------- This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Woody Montier. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Page 1 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- (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. Page 2 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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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 Page 3 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. Page 4 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) Page 5 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 Page 6 (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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your consideration, interest and support. Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet -------------------------------------------------------------------- If we can be of service, you may contact Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 242-9346 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 7