Talk:Thomas Townsend Brown

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Birth and death dates

A citation is needed for the birth and death dates of Thomas Townsend Brown. The article currently shows the death date as either 1985-10-22 or 1985-10-27. There should be a published obituary somewhere that gives it correctly. — Quicksilver^{T @} 14:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Ionic wind and Electrogravity

Removed this per WP:FRINGE - it seems to put fringe science in Wikipedia's voice. Also a paragraph in the lead was put in quotes - its not a quotation of anybody. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 19:55, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Edited some good edits, chased down further sourcing and firmed up claims. There were some unsupported (and kinda unsupportable) edits:

• "The Biefeld–Brown effect deals with "ionic drift"", - no source says this.
• "Electrogravitics is less well understood" - According to this it was well understood, just not understood by Brown and company.
• "The effect of electrogravitics is different from that of the Biefeld–Brown effect in that the force is always vertical." - again no source says this. this states Brown, Rose and company claimed Biefeld–Brown effect was an anti-gravity effect in the 1950s.

As far as Biefeld–Brown effect and Electrogravitics - there is no source that splits this into two phenomenons with different aspects. Research by at least one (historian?) seems to indicate Brown made these names up as needed. I have inserted a source link to this. Moved those terms down the article, the show up in use post WWII. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

A Mildly Contrarian Point of View

I live in the Cleveland-Akron area and was a technical writer. As a kid I was aware of the fact that several local firms were involved in so-called anti-gravity research in the fifties and sixties, and that the federal government was aggressively seeking out people who might develop anti-gravity. I worked for two firms involved (before my time) in the field, and stumbled across an archives collection elsewhere that strongly hinted applied AG research was carried out in the Columbus area, as well. I and five others observed two unidentified aerial phenomena from an altitude of less than a hundred feet, as kids. I did work for two years in Los Angeles with 125 others on what can best be described as pseudo-scientific matters for a government agency, which treated what we did as routine. I had viewed these things as most likely elaborate disinformation projects, but in light of the December 2017 announcement about the Threat Assessment Project, and a NASA announcement a year earlier about an electron drive having proven itself to work, I point your attention to a short story, "Not In The Literature," by Christopher Anvil.66.213.14.115 (talk) 18:02, 6 May 2018 (UTC) Dictionary