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EXTRAORDINARY CURIOSITY
Thomas Townsend Brown was born March 18, 1905, to a prominent
Zanesville, Ohio, family. The usual child-like "Why" questions came
from young Townsend with extraordinary intensity. For example, his
question "Why do the (high voltage) electric wires sing" led him later in
life to an invention.
His discovery of electrogravitics, on the other hand, came through an
intuition. As a sixteen-year-old, Townsend Brown had a hunch that the
then-famous Coolidge X-ray tube might give a clue to spaceflight technology.
His tests, to find a force in the rays themselves which would move
mass, lead to a dead end. But in the meantime the observant experimenter
noticed that high voltages applied to the tube itself caused a very slight
motion.
Excited, he worked on increasing the effect. Before he graduated from
high school, he had an instrument he called a gravitator. "Wow," the
teenager may have thought. "Antigravity may be possible!" World-changing
technological discoveries start with someone noticing a small effect
and then amplifying it.
Unsure of what to do next, the next year he started college at California
Institute of Technology. Even then his sensitivity was evident, because he
saw the wisdom of going forward cautiously—first gaining respect from
his professors instead of prematurely bragging about his discovery of a
new electrical principle. He was respected as a promising student and an
excellent laboratory worker, but when he did tell his teachers about his
discovery they were not interested. He left school and joined the Navy.
Next he tried Kenyon College in Ohio. Again, no scientist would take
his discovery seriously. It went against what the professors had been
taught; therefore it could not be.
He finally found help at Dennison University in Gambier, Ohio.
Townsend met Professor of physics and astronomy Paul Alfred Biefeld,
Ph.D., who was from Zurich, Switzerland and had been a classmate of
Albert Einstein. Biefeld encouraged Brown to experiment further, and
together they developed the principle which is known in the unorthodox
scientific literature as the Biefeld-Brown Effect. It concerned the same
notion which the teenager had seen on his Coolidge tube—a highly
charged electrical condenser moves toward its positive pole and away
from its negative pole. Brown's gravitator measured weight losses of up
to one percent. (In 1974 researcher Oliver Nichelson pointed out to Brown
that before 1918, Professor Francis E. Nipher of St. Louis discovered
gravitational propulsion by electrically charging lead balls, so the Brown-
Blefeld Effect could more properly be called the Nipher Effect. However,