Case file · Government program
Naval Research Laboratory and the S-48 gravity expedition
Brown joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1931 and in early 1932 sailed on the submarine S-48 in the Navy–Princeton gravity expedition to the West Indies, led scientifically by Felix Vening Meinesz.
1932 CE · 19.90, -75.15 · status: official
The account
He reported to the NRL in Washington on 16 March 1931. On the S-48 (about 7 February to 17 March 1932) he gave technical support to Vening Meinesz's pendulum measurements of gravity at sea, which helped map the deep trenches of the Caribbean; his role was practical, not theoretical. Budget cuts ended his NRL post in 1933; that year he ran sounding equipment on the yacht Caroline for the Johnson–Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition.
Connections in the atlas
- Thomas Townsend Brown
- The Coolidge tube that seemed to change weight
- The 'gravitator' patent and the Biefeld–Brown effect
- Project Winterhaven
- Tests in Paris for SNCASO
- The 'gravitics' boom and the Electrogravitics Systems report
- 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