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The 'gravitics' boom and the Electrogravitics Systems report
In 1955–56 the press reported that US aircraft firms were researching gravity control, and a confidential British report, 'Electrogravitics Systems', summarised Brown's work.
1956 CE · 40.71, -74.01 · status: official
The account
In November 1955 Ansel Talbert's New York Herald Tribune series 'Conquest of Gravity Aim of Top Scientists in U.S.' named Martin, Convair and Bell. In February 1956 the newsletter firm Aviation Studies (International) issued 'Electrogravitics Systems', followed by 'The Gravitics Situation' in December 1956. The boom faded by the end of the decade without a working device.
The sceptical view
Most of the 'gravity research' of the period was theoretical general relativity; no company announced a result.
Connections in the atlas
- Thomas Townsend Brown
- The Coolidge tube that seemed to change weight
- The 'gravitator' patent and the Biefeld–Brown effect
- Naval Research Laboratory and the S-48 gravity expedition
- Project Winterhaven
- Tests in Paris for SNCASO
- Brown founds NICAP
- The Bahnson laboratory (Whitehall-Rand)
- The electrokinetic patents
- Rock electricity on Catalina Island
- The lifter tests: ARL, NASA and Tajmar
- MIT's ion-wind aeroplane