Welcome to the list and glad you decided to 'unlurk'...<g>..
You wrote;
> Why don't we, all of you, or someone try and reproduce his
> electrogravitic discs, make very small scale versions, and sell them
> as novelties/toys? Personally, I think that we, all of you, or
> someone could make a LOT of money off of creating his discs and
> selling small versions of them that could be plugged into a wall
> socket and would float using an artificial gravity field.
I think you are missing it a bit here....the electrostatic drive craft
mentioned in the TT Brown patent would not lift its own weight, let alone
a high voltage power supply. That is why it was suspended from a
conductive wire and hanging from a pedestal arm that allowed the arm to
rotate freely.
A friend named Larry Davenport who lives in Amarillo was also quite
fascinated with the Brown experiment...he built one himself, using
tupperware for air capacitors, aluminum foil and tin pie plates...and
when power was applied, the thing did in fact rotate slowly around the
pedestal. There is a video of it from the INE http://padrak.com/~ine
and Larry wrote it up with full instructions to allow others to build one
as published in Charles Yosts' Electric Spacecraft Journal (ESJ).
It was marvelous to see redneck engineering at work, no fancy machine
shop work or high dollar components...Larry built it all from off the
shelf parts and scrounging....always impresses me how all these years and
no one builds what is clearly described until Larry did it.
At any rate, Dr. Jones is quite correct in his advice to use journalistic
criteria...i.e...who, what, when, where, why and HOW in our case...<g>..
Don't believe all that you read....look for supporting evidence or a
proof that you can see, build or buy for yourself...you represent the
next generation who will make people prove their claims or make them just
go away and bother someone else. Good luck!
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