I was just thumbing through some of Townsend Brown’s correspondence from the last year of his life, and found a letter he wrote to somebody named Josh Reynolds on April 4, 1984. I’m familiar with the name, as I’ve seen it before in correspondence I’ve found among Dr. Brown’s papers. I believe he and Mr. […]
Chapter 2: No Moving Parts introduces Townsend Brown’s electrostatic fan/loudspeaker, which eventually became the Sharper Image Ionic Breeze Air Purifier (that reminds me, I need to clean mine…). The unit described in this paragraph was taken to California, and reappears in Chapter 4. The actual unit in question can be seen in this picture and
There are numerous individuals whose names drift in and out of the Townsend Brown saga and, not surprisingly, their trails are near impossible to trace. For example, Robert I. Sarbacher is an individual who has been linked to Townsend Brown’s secret team. His name shows up frequently in Dr. Brown’s “day book” from 1962, and
