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Brown, Thomas Townsend

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Personal name headingBrown, Thomas Townsend
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Variant(s)Brown, T. T. (Thomas Townsend)
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1905-03-18
Death date1985-10-27
Place of birthZanesville (Ohio)
Field of activityAntigravity
Profession or occupationInventors
Found inLCCN 34-26221: Navy-Princeton Gravity Expedition to the West Indies (1932) The Navy-Princeton gravity expedition to the West Indies in 1932, 1933 (hdg.: Brown, Thomas Townsend; variant: T.T. Brown) preface (Mr. T.T. Brown of the Naval Research Laboratory of Washington, D.C.)
Wikipedia, Oct. 3, 2017 (Thomas Townsend Brown (March 18, 1905 - October 27, 1985) was an American inventor whose research into odd electrical effects led him to believe he had discovered a connection between strong electric fields and gravity, a type of antigravity effect ... He came up with the name "Biefeld-Brown effect" for the phenomenon he had discovered and called the field of study electrogravitics; born in Zanesville, Ohio; In 1930 Brown enlisted in the United States Navy ... He performed the dual roles of a rank-and-file sailor and a research assistant on the Navy submarine S-48 in the Navy-Princeton gravity expedition to the West Indies in 1932)