• Notes from Bill B.
  

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I don't understand why the author didn't include a patent number. A cursory search of 1930 patents shows nothing called "electric rocket" or similar, but a more intensive search could be done. I wouldn't be suprised to discover that the article is a hoax, with the goal being to get someone to put massive effort into building a foil-stack capacitor with thousands of layers, each made of many small parts! Fascinating idea though, and very much in line with T.T.Brown's work with the small apparent gravity forces generated by large capacitors at high voltage.
-Bill B.

       
       The device is actually a variation on the 19'th century Fizeau's 
       condenser, and was invented quite by accident, in the early 1930's, 
       by a 17-year old tinkerer.
        
       The boy patented the device as the "Electric Rocket."  The patent 
       was bought by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which is
       today called MOBIL, for about one million dollars, which in the 
       1930's was a staggering some of money.
       I'm not sure how long the boy lived after selling his invention to 
       the fine people of Standard Oil, but I do know that he was sworn to 
       secrecy, and that his million dollar fortune was contingent on 
       keeping his mouth shut.

       Of course, all of this information, with the exception of actual 
       design description, is readily available to the public, which is 
       how I learned of it, and subsequently figured out that the "cylind-
       rical grid" was indeed a simple variation of Fizeau's condenser.

       The device can and will make fossil fuels obsolete, and, by elimin-
       ating the fossil fuel industry, which is the cornerstone of the 
       American Economy, force our government, and the industrial dynasties 
       that control it, to release all the other suppressed discoveries 
       that will advance our civilization beyond even the most wild fan-
       tasies of science fiction.

       The better the plate/dielectric materials used, the better it works.
                                                
                                                Truly,
                                                
                                                
                                                Thomas Kennedy
                                                370 Thornycroft Ave.
                                                Staten Island, NY 10312
       
       P.S.  This is for real



       
FIG. 1


FIG. 2


       Use waxed paper for the dielectric.  Cut it into rings, as illus-
       trated, with a large hole in the center.  Use TIN foil (NOT alum-
       inum) as the "plate" material.  Make sure to center the plates on 
       the dielectric, so as to leave ample margin between outer and 
       inner edges of the dielectric, as this is vital to proper func-
       tioning.

       Connect the plates to each other using very thin strips of tin 
       foil, laid on top, and set toward the outer edge, but not going 
       beyond the edges of the plates.

       Leave a long, thin strip of tin foil laid on top of a plate and 
       extending out, to be used for charging the array.

       Curved plates work better than rectangular.  Round off corners on 
       curved plates, as well as rectangular ones.

       You will have to stack hundreds of such layers.  Use TWO waxed 
       paper rings on each layer.

       Leave the positive charging strips aligned on one side of the 
       array, and all the negative strips aligned on the other.

       When the array is completed, you just roll and crimp them together, 
       in bunches of two dozen or so, tack them with solder (don't damage 
       the dielectric)

       Wire all positive strips to each other, and all negative strips to 
       each other, so that positive and negative plates charge from oppo-
       site sides of the array.

       The capacitor stack must be tightly clamped together, or it will 
       not work.  You can use pieces of stout boards, with holes in the 
       center correspoinding to the diameter of the holes in the center 
       of the dielectric, perhaps slightly smaller.

       The layers must be perfectly aligned to form a cylindrical grid.
       The gravitational warp forms in the central cavity of the cylinder.

       Two sheets of paper, then one layer of seven plates, then two more 
       sheets of paper, then another 7 plates, etc.  Pos. plate layer, 
       then neg. plate layer, then pos., neg., etc.




FIG. 3


       The boards are held together by a number of long bolts.  The bolts 
       must NOT TOUCH the stack, or it will short out, and discharge in a 
       very dangerous manner.

       The boards must be larger in diameter than the stack, as illus-
       trated above.

       The dotted circle represents the diameter of the dielectric.

       Note that all these drawings are in correct proportions, and a 
       working model can be built to the actual size depicted, using the 
       drawings as templates.
       
       The device described here is 8-1/4" long by 6" in diameter.  Even 
       a small device of this type will build a very powerful charge, and 
       substantial thrust, and should be used with extreme caution.



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FIG. 4

       There are 8 bolts, but                 Insulate the entire
       only 2 are shown here,                 array when completed
       for ease of simplicity.


       This unit is based on an antique Fizeau's condenser, which uses 
       tin foil and waxed paper.  Modern, solid-state plate-dielectric 
       components may be used instead, with far better results.  The same
       principles apply, whether you use waxed paper or titanium dioxide, 
       so the basic design remains the same.  Follow the instructions,
       modify when necessary, and you should have no major problems.


       The "attractive force" between + and - plates of a plate capacitor 
       varies inversely with the square of the distance.  This is the same 
       relationship as in gravitation, because IS gravitation.  Although 
       the inverse relationship holds true for other vector fields as well
       as gravitational fields, there is no other plausible explanation 
       for the strong attraction between the plates.  "Conventional" sci-
       ence speaks of "opposite charges attracting", but what is really 
       occuring is gravitational attraction.  All electrostatic attraction 
       and repulsion is gravitational in nature.  "Conventional" scien-
       tific dogma is geared toward maintaining the current socioeconomic 
       status quo, and suppressing scientific understanding is paramount 
       to preventing the widespread understanding of the true nature and 
       potential uses of the forces of nature, such as electrostatic ener-
       gy.  The invention I've described is an example of how scientific 
       knowledge can upset the status quo.

       This device was actually invented in the 1930's, by a 17-year old 
       amateur experimenter, who was just trying to make a new version of 
       the old Fizeau's condenser, but discovered a revolutionary new pro-
       pulsion system, which he patented as the "Electric Rocket."

       The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now MOBIL) bought the pat-
       ent from the boy for the then-staggering sum of one million dollars.
       The young inventor was sworn to secrecy, and, in fact, signed a 
       contract that called for the forfeiture of his million should he 
       divulge the secrets of his invention.  Why?  Because this device 
       can and will make fossil fuels obsolete!  Not only can it provide 
       clean, save, and efficient propulsion for vehicles, aircraft, 
       spacecraft, and machinery of every type, it can also be used to 
       run ordinary electrical generators, and garner far more energy 
       than is needed to keep it running.
       
       The current ignorance of the established status quo would dismiss 
       this out of hand with the label, "perpetual motion device," which, 
       of course, is impossible.

       That means that our solar system, as well as the entire universe, 
       is "impossible," since everything is in perpetual motion in a 
       swirling vector field known as gravity.

       The better you make these devices, and the greater the capacity of 
       the dielectric materials used, the longer it will produce a "jet 
       stream" of open-curve gravitation, or gravitational waves, before 
       it needs another "top-off" charge.

       In other words, if you were to use titanium dioxide dielectirc com-
       pounds in this thing, it could conceivably keep going for CENTURIES 
       ON A SINGLE CHARGE!