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Thomas Townsend Brown

Physicist and inventor · 1905 to 1985

Inventor of electric "lifters" and a founder of NICAP.

Brown studied how high-voltage capacitors produce thrust, now known as the Biefeld-Brown effect, and worked on related projects for the Navy and private firms. In 1956 he helped found NICAP. His work is still cited in talk of advanced propulsion.

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