"Coppy" Laws' and Idries Shah: Air Ionizers
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 4:00 pm
Nate, this thread is for you, ir you wish to use it to repost any of your earlier research about this topic. While Townsend's products ended up in the Sharper Image cataloug, Coppy Lawa was targeting the medical market, with considerable success.
"Twigsnapper" tipped us off to Cecil Laws in a previous message. Coppy, called so for the color of his hair, was a Stellar, capital S, contributor to England's radar program.
From his Wicki entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppy_La ... f-obit_1-4
The Wicki article continues with a review of the recent research, all finding that ionized air reduces the spread of infections in medical wards.
Idries Shaw born to an Afghan-Indian father and Scottish mother in the days of the Raj would have made a fascinating business partner., Though he was widely-traveled he made England his home and served as secretary/companion to Gerald Gardner, the father of modern Wicca, even joining in on the group's sixties era mushroom ceremonies.
Shah would go on to develop close ties to the Gurdjieff circles of the time, but he is best known for his many writings on Sufism that introduced the philosophy to the west. Many of his teaching stories of the foolish Mullah Nasrudin are used as parables today. (the frog and the scopion are probably the best know.)
And, also,though I have no evidence for this belief, but I have no doubt that as he traveled, Shah served as operative/courier for British Intelligence in Central Asia.
"Twigsnapper" tipped us off to Cecil Laws in a previous message. Coppy, called so for the color of his hair, was a Stellar, capital S, contributor to England's radar program.
From his Wicki entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppy_La ... f-obit_1-4
He would eventually depart the radar and computer automation field and and take up a completely different line of workIn his mid-twenties he designed a range-finding system which allowed guns to home in on enemy ships beyond the horizon with accuracy and to fire a salvo the instant they were detected.
His achievements won recognition from the British Government in the form of a large cash award, similar to that given to Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine.
At the outbreak of war he was seconded to the Admiralty to work on the development of radar.[2] He resolved the key component of a design for a radar distance-measuring oscillator, a problem which at the time was defeating the young Herman Bondi and Fred Hoyle, part of the mathematical team backing up the radar designers.
After the war he was invited to form a radar division for Elliotts, the electrical engineering company. He helped create the East coast radar defence for the USA; set up Elliotts' first automation division; automated the oil pipelines in Saudi Arabia for Aramco; automated steel mills and paper mills and initiated and directed the first computer division.
.Following the merger of Elliotts with GEC he left, not to take early retirement but to form his own business in the obscure field of electrical medicine....
In 1918 Alexander Chizhevsky had created the first air ioniser for ion therapy. This discovery was what had ignited Laws' interest in the little-known phenomenon of air ionisation, and with Idries Shah as co-director he formed Medion (not the German electronics company)[1] to investigate the benefits to human health, performance and concentration.
Funding all the research himself, he developed the world's first effective home air ioniser. In the decades that followed, he became an international expert in electro-medical science. Other machines came on the market, all based on versions of his patents, but his instruments set the standard
The Wicki article continues with a review of the recent research, all finding that ionized air reduces the spread of infections in medical wards.
Idries Shaw born to an Afghan-Indian father and Scottish mother in the days of the Raj would have made a fascinating business partner., Though he was widely-traveled he made England his home and served as secretary/companion to Gerald Gardner, the father of modern Wicca, even joining in on the group's sixties era mushroom ceremonies.
Shah would go on to develop close ties to the Gurdjieff circles of the time, but he is best known for his many writings on Sufism that introduced the philosophy to the west. Many of his teaching stories of the foolish Mullah Nasrudin are used as parables today. (the frog and the scopion are probably the best know.)
And, also,though I have no evidence for this belief, but I have no doubt that as he traveled, Shah served as operative/courier for British Intelligence in Central Asia.