Schatzkin's biography of Brown

Paul Schatzkin, biographer of the television pioneer Philo Farnsworth, wrote Brown's life online as Defying Gravity (2005–08) and published it as The Man Who Mastered Gravity (new edition 2023).

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The account

Built largely on the family archive and sympathetic to Brown, it is the fullest account of his life.

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
• 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

Sources

1. ttbrown.com