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Question: What happened to the corporation, Whitehall-Rand, created by Townsend Brown? My father invested in some of the company's stock, and I was wondering if it had any value. (Back)

Whitehall-Rand was eventually disbanded, although it raised a lot of excitement at the time. Townsend demonstrated his apparatuses to many government and military groups although funding never materialized. Interestingly enough, many of these same devices and theories are being used by the same groups today including NASA (particle accelerators - non atomic) and the military (Air Force).

In any case, the stock is not active, but if you were to come across some, the Brown family would be interested in it as a piece of family history.

Question: I've not done much scientific reading, but having read this site, I need to know, is this for real? Were the experiments conducted in actual fact?
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Yes, the experiments are for real. Mark Bean, of Virtual Reality had a small, working model of Brown's airfoils at the International UFO Confernce in Laughlin, NV in August, 1998.

Actually, quite a few of Townsend Brown's theories and research findings are being used in various forms - electromagnetohydrodynamic drives for submarines and ships, electrostatic fuel ionizing fields to reduce engine temperature signatures and increase fuel efficiency, industrial electrostatic precipitators, negative ion treatment in burn units, "massless" electrostatic speakers, HF signal transmission and petrovoltaics in oil field research among many.

Townsend was a very good scientist, but not a very good showman, and in fact, was very reclusive. He never gave a public demonstration of his airfoils, and the Nevada conference was the first time his airfoils have ever been shown in public.

Question: Did Thomas Townsend Brown receive a Ph.D. in physics? (Back)

Townsend Brown never even received a bachelors degree. He spent time studying at several schools including Caltech, Kenyon College and Denison University. Townsend found it impossible to interest any of his professors in his research, and in fact, found great opposition. It was not until he studied physics under Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld that he was able to advance his research under academic guidance which led to the so-called Biefeld-Brown Effect.

Townsend is very often mistakenly called Dr. simply because many of the government and scientific people he worked with through the years assumed that all scientists were Drs., and couldn't really understand a civilian technician being given so much attention and respect.

Question: Why did Thomas Townsend Brown choose physics as a field of study?

Townsend didn't really choose physics. The field of physics was not really developed at the time he began researching the electrogravitation coupling effect. His case was similar to Einstein, who was not a physicist, but a mathematician whom the association with physics grew up around. Although Townsend was called a physicist, he would be better labelled as an electrical engineer, which is, of course, basically what he did - capacitors, resistors, dielectrics, etc.

His dream was to go into the Navy, which he eventually did, helped along by his knowledge of electrical engineering. He was indispensible to the Navy for a time with his work in electromagnetic mine sweeping during WWII.