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Remember Linda that you once asked your Father .... what about a microphone?

Anybody know the name of Alexander M. Poniatoff?
twigsnapper

Bio:
Alexander M. Poniatoff:

C) 2005 Labguy's World. Do not use without permission.
Founder of Ampex, created many of the major innovations in commercial recording technology and produced the first US built magnetic audio tape recorder in 1948 revolutionizing the radio industry. After creating the standard for audio recording, Ampex produced the first data instrumentation recorder for storing large amounts of information on tape. In the fifties, Ampex created the first commercial video tape recorder which fundamentally changed the way television programs were staged and produced.

Also of note:
1944 * Alexander M. Poniatoff forms Ampex Corporation to make electric motors for the military.
1946 * Brush Development Corp. builds a semiprofessional tape recorder as its Model BK401 Soundmirror.

[Linda Brown]

What a great picture! Thankyou for finding that.

I only met the man once when he came into the lab at GTI with William Lear. My impression is that they had flown in from the San Francisco area on one of Mr. Lears planes, landing at the Santa Monica airport. We went to lunch at a run down little sandwich shop across the street from the lab because Dad didn't want to be away from our work for very long. I got the impression that they all knew each other very well. They asked me how I liked California and the beach and were really quite nice to me and I am sure they had business to discuss but not in my presence.

I remember that Mr. Lear wanted Dad to fly back up to Redwood City with them but Dad later drove instead of flying because I had expressed a very clear worry that something might happen on that flight. I was mistaken but I honestly worried that Mr. Lear would have some sort of heart attack ... his face was always so ruddy that I felt I guess that his blood pressure must have matched. As I said I was wrong.... but Dad was taking no chances and I appreciated that.

I never knew that Mr. Poniatoff had any connection at all with Convair but I sure find that really interesting.

And I have to say. I wonder how many Ampex tape recorders were used by spooks around the world.

And yes, I do find it odd that the microphone ( which is totally feasible development) has never , ever been mentioned. Spook city here folks.

I know I am right Mr. Twigsnapper and I appreciate the nod. Linda

[twigsnapper]

"My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there were no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself."

An appropriate quote from " A Wrinkle in Time" twigsnapper

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Check this out...

Sky Watcher Spies Gassy 'Cosmic Ghost'
Reuters
posted: 5 HOURS 10 MINUTES AGO
filed under: Science News

CHICAGO (Aug. 5) - A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a "cosmic ghost," a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object.
The teacher, Hanny van Arkel, discovered the object while volunteering in the Galaxy Zoo project, which enlists the help of members of the public to classify galaxies online.

The green object above was first spotted by Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch teacher and amateur astronomer. What is it? Scientists aren't sure, but it consists of gas and contains no stars. "What we saw was really a mystery," said Kevin Schawinski, an astrophysicist at Yale University. Some have called it a "cosmic ghost."


The green object above was first spotted by Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch teacher and amateur astronomer. What is it? Scientists aren't sure, but it consists of gas and contains no stars. "What we saw was really a mystery," said Kevin Schawinski, an astrophysicist at Yale University. Some have called it a "cosmic ghost."

"At first, we had no idea what it was. It could have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.
The find, nicknamed "Hanny's Voorwerp" (Dutch for object), soon had scientists training their telescopes on the object.
"What we saw was really a mystery," Schawinski said. "The Voorwerp didn't contain any stars."

Made entirely of very hot gas, the eerie green object is illuminated by remnant light from the nearby galaxy IC 2497.
"We think that in the recent past the galaxy IC 2497 hosted an enormously bright quasar," Schawinski said.
He said light from the past still illuminates the ghostly object, even though the quasar shut down some 100,000 years ago and the galaxy's black hole went quiet.

"It's this light echo that has been frozen in time for us to observe," said Chris Lintott, a co-organizer of Galaxy Zoo at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.

Researchers will soon use the Hubble Space Telescope to get a closer look.
"It's amazing to think that this object has been sitting in the archives for decades and that amateur volunteers can help by spotting things like this online," van Arkel said in a statement.

Van Arkel is one of more than 150,000 amateur astronomers who have assisted in classifying more than 1 million galaxies over the past year as part of the Galaxy Zoo project.

The next stage of Galaxy Zoo will ask volunteers to search for more unusual astronomical objects.
Galaxy Zoo can be found at http://www.galaxyzoo.org .
(Editing by Jackie Frank)
Copyright 2008, Reuters
2008-08-05 15:51:18

Is this a cosmic haha?

MagicBill

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(moved from PEOPLE & PLACES & DATES) https://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 248#p17245

What if gravity were a flow, like in a river or stream, where objects are pushed along with the flow of the water.
Then I suppose we would need to be like salmon and swim upstream.

Gregg,

It's funny that you wrote this today. I was thinking along the same lines.

As I was driving to work today, I was musing about the "rays" of energy that Kevin can "see" or feel.
Then I looked to the clouds, and in one hole in the clouds, I saw sunlight spilling out from the hole like water in a waterfall. The sunlight was pouring over the edge of the cloud as water over the edge of a cliff and it appeared that the sunlight was "dragging" part of the cloud down to earth as it shone through the clouds. In fact, if you looked at the rays through the clouds, they appear as streaks, colored differently near the clouds (darker, more pronounced) and disappearing the farther away from the cloud. Now we know clouds are made of water vapor and they condense as rain upon a nucleus or bit of dust. So these rays of sunlight are acting as particles as they are dragging particles of water vapor and the cloud along with them as they journey to earth.

Then I realized Tesla was right in his radiant energy patent and that the sunlight contains rays or streams of minute matter or particles which can knock off electrons from an insulated plate as described in Tesla's radiant energy patent. Elsewhere in this forum, I discussed Od or Odium energy that Baron von Reichenbach discovered in the 1800s. I also believe these two things may be the same thing, just different terminology. And apparently the Baron discovered it in greater detail and knew how to fractionate the energy using prisms and other means. But Tesla knew how to extract power from it and it worked day and night.

So we are taught that gravity is pulling all these bits of matter to the earth. When in actuality it could be the "push" of the minute bits of matter in these rays of sunlight that point to the fact that we are being constantly bombarded by cosmic radiation...

So Kevin, when you look at these rays of sunlight streaming through the clouds, do they match to what you "see" in flows? I cannot see the spiral nature of sunlight but if there are minute particles, the Coriolis effect would come into play and the flow would be of a spiral nature.

Did anyone catch the Modern Marvels episode on "Mad Electricity" last night on the History Channel? It was all about Tesla and it was very good.

Musings of someone trying to understand the "wheelwork of nature"...

MagicBill

[Trickfox]

Mr. Twigsnapper
viewtopic.php?p=10183#p10183
Haven't we allready established that Peter Wright's toy (the MOP) may have been an early form of sound pick-up device using the forces we are looking at here?

Trickfox

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Something I saw tonight:
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurs ... de1q356s6e

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material with twice the efficiency of anything currently on the market.

The same technology could work in power generators and heat pumps, said project leader Joseph Heremans, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology at Ohio State University.

Scientists call such materials thermoelectric materials, and they rate the materials' efficiency based on how much heat they can convert into electricity at a given temperature.

Previously, the most efficient material used commercially in thermoelectric power generators was an alloy called sodium-doped lead telluride, which had a rating of 0.71. The new material, thallium-doped lead telluride, has a rating of 1.5 -- more than twice that of the previous leader.

What's more important to Heremans is that the new material is most effective between 450 and 950 degrees Fahrenheit -- a typical temperature range for power systems such as automobile engines.

Some experts argue that only about 25 percent of the energy produced by a typical gasoline engine is used to move a car or power its accessories, and nearly 60 percent is lost through waste heat -- much of which escapes in engine exhaust.

A thermoelectric (TE) device can capture some of that waste heat, Heremans said. It would also make a practical addition to an automobile, because it has no moving parts to wear out or break down.

"The material does all the work. It produces electrical power just like conventional heat engines -- steam engines, gas or diesel engines -- that are coupled to electrical generators, but it uses electrons as the working fluids instead of water or gases, and makes electricity directly."

"Thermoelectrics are also very small," he added. "I like to say that TE converters compare to other heat engines like the transistor compares to the vacuum tube."

The engineers took a unique strategy to design this new material.

To maximize the amount of electricity produced by a TE material, engineers would normally try to limit the amount of heat that can pass through it without being captured and converted to electricity. So the typical strategy for making a good thermoelectric material is to lower its thermal conductivity.

In Heremans' lab, he used to work to lower the thermal conductivity by building nanometer-sized structures such as nanowires into materials. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

Those nanostructured materials are not very stable, are very difficult to make in large quantities, and are difficult to connect with conventional electronic circuits and external heat sources.

For this new material, he and his colleagues took a different strategy: they left out the fancy nanostructures, and instead focused on how to convert the maximum amount of heat that was trapped in the material naturally.

To do this, they took advantage of some new ideas in quantum mechanics.

Heremans pointed to a 2006 paper published by other researchers in the journal Physical Review Letters, which suggested that elements such as thallium and tellurium could interact on a quantum-mechanical level to create a resonance between the thallium electrons and those in the host lead telluride thermoelectric material, depending on the bonds between the atoms.

"It comes down to a peculiar behavior of an electron in a thallium atom when it has tellurium neighbors," he said. "We'd been working for 10 years to engineer this kind of behavior using different kinds of nanostructured materials, but with limited success. Then I saw this paper, and I knew we could do the same thing we'd been trying to do with nanostructures, but with this bulk semiconductor instead."

Heremans designed the new material with Vladimir Jovovic, who did this work for his doctoral thesis in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State. Researchers at Osaka University -- Ken Kurosaki, Anek Charoenphakdee, and Shinsuke Yamanaka -- created samples of the material for testing. Then researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- G. Jeffrey Snyder, Eric S. Toberer, and Ali Saramat -- tested the material at high temperatures. Heremans and Jovovic tested it at low temperatures and provided experimental proof that the physical mechanism they postulated was indeed at work.

The team found that near 450 degrees Fahrenheit, the material converted heat to electricity with an efficiency rating of about 0.75 -- close to that of sodium doped telluride. But as the temperature rose, so did the efficiency of the new material. It peaked at 950 degrees Fahrenheit, with a rating of 1.5.

Heremans' team is continuing to work on this patent-pending technology.

"We hope to go much further. I think it should be quite possible to apply other lessons learned from thermoelectric nanotechnology to boost the rating by another factor of two -- that's what we're shooting for now," he said.

Source: Ohio State University

Sound similar to the petrovoltaics Dr. Brown worked on.

MagicBill

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This just out.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... ws&sp=true

Material bends, stretches and conducts electricity?
Thu Aug 7, 2008 7:01pm EDT
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By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - In the latest twist on electronics, Japanese scientists said on Thursday they have developed a rubbery material that conducts electricity, a finding that could be used to make devices that bend and stretch.

The material, described by Tsuyoshi Sekitani of the University of Tokyo in the journal Science, could be used on curved surfaces or even in moving parts, they said.

Sekitani's team developed their material using carbon nanotubes, a long stretch of carbon molecules that can conduct electricity.

They mixed these into rubbery polymer to form the basic material. Next, they attached a grid of tiny transistors to the material and then put it to the test.

They stretched the sheet of material to nearly double its original size and it snapped back into place, without disrupting the transistors or ruining the material's conductive properties.

The elastic conductor would allow electronic circuits to be mounted in places that would have been impossible up to now, including "arbitrary curved surfaces and movable parts, such as the joints of a robot's arm," Sekitani and colleagues wrote.

Earlier this week, a U.S. team reported developing an elastic mesh material that allowed them to use standard electronics materials to build an electronic eye camera based on the shape and layout of the human eye.

That device could be the basis for the development of an artificial eye implant.

John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who wrote about the eye camera in the journal Nature, said the development of materials that can be shaped and molded to curved surfaces will allow for a whole new class of electronics devices that can be used to better interact with the human body, such as brain monitoring devices.

(Editing by Maggie Fox)

The eye camera sounds interesting. I remember the eye on the Bionic Man (and Woman).
Part Man, Part Machine...Steve Austin - better, stronger, faster...

[Rose]

Langley, the report is awesome. Congratulations on the timely release!

Linda, you might enjoy this first hand account of a young OSS recruit in 1943. I have a gut feeling that Dr. Brown was one of the officers in the new organzation. If so, this will give you a feel for the flavor of your father's life in those days.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for- ... i5a03p.htm

rose

[grinder]

Rose,

A great find and really good reading.

I know that you perhaps thought that this would "feel" like the experiences that Dr. Brown went through but I think really that you have better captured what our own Mr. Twigsnapper O'Reily went through with his training. I got the impression that Dr. Brown may have gone through some training but I would bet it would have been CampX in Canada and a brief training course too, I'll bet. Like .... heres your chute, jump when I tell you.

Its odd really that Peter Wrights name has come up recently ( the acoustic spy master expert) who oddly in that cosmic haha type way was the person who handpicked Mr. Twigsnapper for his first covert operation. Being on that X class submarine. Have you been able to read Pauls chapter on that yet? You learn alot about that man who helped Dr. Brown fold his chute.

But chapter or not the really exciting stuff can also be found right here on the forum. Mr. Twigsnapper told us alot about the Jedburgh teams and even mentioned a special knife that was issued to the first 300 men. He did that (you will realize if you read carefully) to help MarkC know more about his father and what he did in the war. He was very specific with that information and actually I wondered at first about the accuracy of those reports.... though it was obvious that Mr. Twigsnapper was trying to help MarkC reach sort of a closure regarding his Dad.)

(You know., this is the way my thinking progressed... Mr. Twigsnapper is a bit older now and maybe like others of his age ... he might have considered embellishing his story a little bit.

Especially when I first got into this story I was sort of fascinated with the idea of finding out what these " covert operatives" had to go through. Most of it was reasonable I thought but when the information came out that Dr. Brown actually parachuted out at only 600 feet I thought that I had found the real glaring problem with the story. but now ....... Keyhoes account verifies that too!

"). Because our drops in occupied Europe were to be clandestine, they had to be at a low altitude, reducing the time in the air when the parachutist is vulnerable to ground fire. The practice jumps, therefore, were from 500 to 600 feet as opposed to the more common 1,200 feet of regular airborne units. We did not carry reserve parachutes for emergency use; they would have been useless at such a low altitude.

Actually it was good to see that in print because I can take it now to the knowitall hobby parachuter who told me that no one would EVER jump at that altitude " Because they would never have time to open their emergency chute". Damn, jumping and knowing that you only have one chance, one chute. Thats gutsy.

Thanks for that. If you haven't read what Mr. Twigsnapper told us I guess the inhouse google search on the Jedburgh teams might help.

Again, Great reading and thanks too from my end of things. Grinder

[Trickfox]

http://info.web.cern.ch/Press/PressRele ... 6.08E.html

Soon we may coax the G-d particle to actually show itself. (september 10th)

Trickfox

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http://info.web.cern.ch/Press/PressRele ... 6.08E.html

Soon we may coax the G-d particle to actually show itself. (september 10th)

Trickfox

So Raymond,

What is this G-d particle? Some believe this machine will open up a black hole and suck us all in.
Is that like the Jesus nut on a helicopter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut

MagicBill

[natecull]

Thanks for that. If you haven't read what Mr. Twigsnapper told us I guess the inhouse google search on the Jedburgh teams might help.

I went and searched on Jedburgh in the forums and found this:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=235&p=1538
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/betrayalp5.htm

A former OSS Deputy Director proposed to Watson of IBM the formation of a private intelligence service. The two men raised the initial venture capital. The venture was in vain as President Truman and congress created the CIA in 1947.

Thomas J Watson was a personal friend of Walter Russell. Caroline?

[Linda Brown]

Thank you for this quote from another source. It illustrates a point I have been trying to make in all of this for a very long time.

"Soon we may coax the G-d particle to actually show itself. (september 10th)"

Said by someone supposedly very wise.

The ego wrapped in that could suffocate anyone.


Soon WE may COAX the G-d particle to show itself?
Please.

That G-d particle has been beating on our door now for ages and we have remained deaf and blind to it ..... How about saying .... Perhaps WE may finally coax ourselves into properly listening? Linda

[Rose]

That G-d particle has been beating on our door now for ages and we have remained deaf and blind to it ..... How about saying .... Perhaps WE may finally coax ourselves into properly listening? Linda.

Can I do a round of the happy dance now? "Modern" science is finally catching up As a story earlier in this thread tells us, they have (at last) found the power of resonating pairs. When they learn how human consciousness shapes those effects and magnifies itself through them, then we'll be seeing some stuff.

Rose,

A great find and really good reading.

I got the impression that Dr. Brown may have gone through some training but I would bet it would have been CampX in Canada and a brief training course too, I'll bet.

Thank you, Grinder. I love first hand accounts, and badly covet the entire shelf of WW II memoirs shelf at the used book store.

Yes, as one of the first OSS Officers (which he probably was), Dr. Brown had to be trained off-site, and CampX was the only place he could have gone. Then he and the other firsts would have worked t together to design the specialized training the Junior officers and new recruits would receive "back home."

This all-important first group, those who would become the senior officers would have come from the different service intelligence organizations, but my speculation is that all the jump training occurred in England, just because logistically, tha is what makes sense.

Imagine jumping from 600 feet with no back up chute is... I can here the relief in Dr. Brown's laughter now.

Thanks for that. If you haven't read what Mr. Twigsnapper told us I guess the inhouse google search on the Jedburgh teams might help.

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Grinder, I'll never get all the way through the forum, but I've read the book end-to-end once. I'm eager to read it again, but I am trying to preserve my virgin proof-reading eyes for Draft 2.

Mr. T, embellish? After spending a lifetime closeted, (does that sound odd?),I more imagine that he crafts every conversation carefully, and accurately.

Regarding parachutes and know-it-alls: I feel your joy at that conversation.

rose