I agree Rose, if this is the same Butterfield than Wonderland Lab does make a lot of sense for his origin. A Santa Maria Times article from May 8, 1948, proves that Townsend's "JF Butterfield" was definitely a "James F", so that's one step closer to a connection. https://www.news...

I'm not convinced that they are the same person. But 634 South Spring Street definitely is in Los Angeles. (Odd that the company should be called "Lake States Security" when it's not located in a state with a lake.) Wikipedia gives some hints about Mexico and the James F Butterfield who wa...

Okay, linking back from "Still Thrashing about in the Hawthorne Weeds" ( see https://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713 ): There are either one, or two, JF Butterfields. Both active in Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1980s. We have photographs of both. Are they the same person, or...

Stereovision. and holography were still over the horizon, and were the subject of future research papers to be authored by James Butterfield, the director of Brown's Lake Securities in LA. Wait, what? Did I know this? Oh right, the photo over on the "Sidereal radiation" thread. But this s...

Louis Witten, of RIAS, is quoted as speaking of the potential for antigravity materials, "On the night of a new moon, a guy in France discovered that a pendulum moved faster or slow" and a man named Townsend discovered there was a type of bismuth that was repelled instead of attracting.&q...

Whew, back after Christmas and New Year. I hope you all had a happy and relaxing holiday. But Alfven and successors are all talking about cosmic rays and high energy physics. It seems to me that these rays must exhibit different values of speed, density, diffusion etc. at different points on their p...

(Paul) I got a copy of The Phenomenon of Man, which she'd said was Townsend's personal favorite Heh, that's funny because I also have a copy of The Phenomenon of Man. From my late vicar friend, the one who was into parapsychology, and whose personal library resembles a snapshot of pretty much all th...

Townsend set his electrometer on 20 minute sampling schedules It's possibly a coincidence, or convergent evolution, but Maurice Allais's pendulum precession experiments (which also showed diurnal correlations, some of them possibly "sidereal") also ran on a 20 minute sampling interval. Mo...

I'm so glad you got into Gone Dark! I didn't know of W R Smythe, so that's an interesting rabbithole. For the record, concurrently with the establishment of the Wonderland lab, CalTech's entire rocket science faculty left the University and became civil servants at the Naval Ordinance Test Station (...

The young scientist worked in many parts of the globe and made some really outstanding contributions in the field of plant life, marine biology, oceanology, the behaviour of volcanoes. His last project had something to do with the underwater effects of the atomic bomb, and he made some valuable dis...

When he only 22, he, somehow, had the clout to arrange with AT&T and J.P. Morgan, for the Zanesville News staff to have a local listen in on a Transatlantic conversation between Morgan and a Mr. Smith in England.

That's a great anecdote!

Nate

Willoughby and Townsend would have been peers in age and in childhood experiences, both sons of superlative engineers. Each of them served in the Navy during WW II, with Willoughby's last post being as the head of the Naval Ordinance Lab at China Lake. That's very interesting! So Cady was also a Na...

Wonder what psychoenergetics will bring? I remember William Tiller's name, but I haven't yet read any of his books. I have been fascinated by the question of the interface between the psychic and material worlds ever since my mother described her near-death experiences to me in the 1980s, and wonde...

Yep, that's the correct 4610. Where speech and processing all began. So looking at the index of Projects and Tasks around that time, I see the 4600s seems to be stuff to do with "electronics", and 4610 specifically about electronic communication - and even more specifically, about speech ...

Nate, I have a trail of drafts behind me started as replies to your posts. I come back to them when I find another thread for the tapestry we are weaving, but as you know, once started, the weaving tends to go on a bit.. And I apologise for being away for six months, because these are fascinating t...