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278 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Instead of congratulations on the French test results, at the Pentagon he
again ran into closed doors. Even his former classmate from officers' candidates
school, Admiral Hyman Rickover, discouraged Brown from continuing
to explore the dogma-shattering discovery that the force of gravity
could be tweaked or even blanked out by the electrical force.
"Townsend, I'm going to do you a favor and tell you: Don't take this
work any further. Drop it."
Was this advice given to Brown by a highly-placed friend who knew
that the United States military was already exploring electrogravitics
(Recent sleuthing by American scientist, Dr. Paul La Violette, uncovers a
paper trail which leads from Brown's early work, toward secret research
by the military and eventually points to "Black Project" air craft.)
HARASSMENT
Were the repeated break-ins into Brown's laboratory meant to discourage
him from pursuing his line of research
Brown didn't quit, although by that time he and his family had spent
nearly $250,000 of their own money on research. He had already put in
more than thirty years seeking scientific explanations for the strange phenomena
he witnessed in the laboratory. He earlier called it electrogravitics,
but later in his life, trying to get acknowledgement from establishment scientists,
he stopped using the word "electrogravitics" and instead used the
more acceptable scientific terminology "stress in dielectrics."
No matter what his day job, the obsessed researcher experimented in
his home laboratory in his spare time. Above all he wanted to know "Why
is this happening" He was convinced that the coupling of the two forces
—electricity and gravity—could be put to practical use.
An arrogant academia ignored his findings. Given the cold-shoulder
treatment by the science establishment, Brown spent family savings and
even personal food money on laboratory supplies. Perhaps he would not
have had the heart to continue his lonely research if he had known in 1956
that nearly thirty more years of hard work were ahead of him. He died in
1985 with the frustration of having his findings still unaccepted.
The last half of his career involved new twists. Instead of electrogravitics,
at the end of his life he was demonstrating "gravitoelectrics"
and "petrovoltaics"—electricity from rocks. Brown's many patents and
findings ranged from an electrostatic motor to unusual high-fidelity speakers
and electrostatic cooling, to lighter-than-air materials and advanced
dielectrics. His name should be recognized by students of science, but
instead it has dropped into obscurity.
Too late to comfort him, some leading-edge scientists of the mid-1990s
are now resurrecting Brown's papers. Or what they can find of his papers.