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Townsend Brown
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American inventor who discovered in the 1920s that high voltage applied to asymmetric capacitors produces thrust with no fuel, no exhaust, and no propellant, the Biefeld-Brown Effect. His work specifically involved Bismuth.
Key claim
A colleague at Martin Corporation’s RIAS research institute, Lewis Whitten, told the American Institute of Physics: “There’s a guy named Townsend who claimed to have an isotope of bismuth that repelled instead of attracted.”
Modern revival
Charles Bueller at NASA Kennedy Space Center is replicating Brown’s work, getting 50 mN thrust at 400 V (vs. Brown’s 150,000 V) in hard vacuum, ruling out ion wind.
Connections
Biefeld-Brown Effect · Bismuth · Charles Bueller · Bob Lazar · Anti-Gravity · Electret