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284 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
converted into electricity. This led him to conduct experiments in various
locations, from the ocean to the bottom of the Berkeley mine shaft.
When entrepreneur Josh Reynolds became interested in Brown's work
in the last five years of the inventor's life, Brown was able to do the work
he loved the most—petrovoltaics. No one else was putting electrodes on
rocks to measure the minute voltages of electricity which the rocks somehow
soaked up from the cosmos. Brown and Reynolds made artificial
rocks to see what various materials could do and how long they would put
out a charge.
Their efforts in a number of areas led toward what they called a
ForeverReady Battery—a penny-sized piece of rock which put out a tiny
amount of voltage indefinitely because they had learned how to "soup-up"
the effect. After Brown died, Reynolds carried on the research until funding
ran out. He estimates that it would have taken up to $10 million of
advanced molecular engineering research to take the discovery to another
stage of development. The high-power version of the battery remains on
paper—only theory until developed farther.
This discovery alone should have put Brown into science history
books. In all his years of experiments with the periodic variations in the
strip-chart recordings of the output from the materials, he found that the
patterns had a relationship to position of the stars. And orientation toward
the centre of the universe seemed to make a difference too. This resulted
in further unconventional thinking that only made Brown more of an outcast
in the world of sanctioned science.
While he was coming up with the cosmic findings, the military researchers
had a different agenda. One of the reports dug up by researcher
LaViolette came from a London think tank called Aviation Studies
International Ltd. In 1956 the think tank wrote a classified "confidential"
survey of work done in electrogravitics. LaViolette says the only original
copy of the document, called Report 13, was found in the stacks at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base technical library in Dayton, Ohio. It is
not listed in the library's computer.
Excerpts from Report 13 paint a picture of heavy secrecy. A 1954 segment
says that infant science of electro-gravitation may be a field where
not only the methods are secret, but also the ideas themselves are a secret.
"Nothing therefore can be discussed freely at the moment." A further
report predicted bluntly that electrogravitics, like other advanced sciences,
would be developed as a weapon.
A couple of months later, another now declassified Aviation Report said
it looked like the Pentagon was ready to sponsor electrogravitic propulsion
devices and that the first disc should be finished by 1960. The report anticipated
that it would take the decade of the 60s to develop it properly "even