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History of gravitational theory. In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass. There have been numerous theories of gravitation since ancient times. The first extant sources discussing such theories are found in ancient Greek philosophy.
- Radlum Apergent & Its Source
- Who Was F. M. close?
- History of "Apergy" in Print
- Astor and Keely
- Anomalous Aeronautics
- Dellschau & Nymza
- Confederate Wunderwaffe
- The Curse of Apergy?
- J.P. Morgan and The Sky Pirates
- Conclusion, Or Lack Thereof
What is radlum, the apergent that is the Secret of Aerial Flight? Interestingly, Chronicling America's OCR thinks it should be "radium". This threw me when I first read the text version since radium wasn't officially discovered by the Curies until 1898, a year after this article, and wasn't named until 1899. My brief excitement at discovering a gli...
Dr. Frank M. Close, inventor (?) of the telectroscope. (From San Francisco Chronicle 1896-03-27.) The veracity of all this depends on the article's author and narrator, Frank M. Close, Doctor of Science (right, and presumably depicted in the foreground of the illustration at top). The only biographical info I can find on him is that before moving t...
While the subject of Close's article implies that the word "apergy" is his name for this agravic force, according to Wikipedia's apergy entry (which I've added Close's article to) it first appears in print in 1880 in the novel Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg (Archive.org scan), where it's used to allow the protagonist's spaceship, the Astronaut, to...
In 1896, "apergy" was used by writer/philanthropist Clara Jessup Bloomfield-Moore for the force behind John Ernst Worrell Keely's Vibrodyne (aka Keely's Motor). In her "Some Truths About Keely", Bloomfield-Moore identifies apergy as "one of the currents of a triune polar stream of force". Keely and his Vibrodyne. While this doesn't seem to have any...
Dr. Close's article must be viewed in the larger context of a wave of sightings of mysterious airships that gripped California from November, 1896 through 1897. (That too is part of an even larger context of mysterious airships in general, a phenomenon notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article. Also see the three-part series titled "Mystery Air...
The trail goes back to the 1850s with Charles August Albert Dellschau, a Prussian who immigrated to the American southwest and eventually traveled to California to become a member of the "Sonora Aero Club", a secret group of airship designers -- and possibly builders. From 1898 to 1921, Dellschau compiled scrapbooksof his time in the Aero Club. The...
Meanwhile during the US Civil War, William C. Powers, a Confederate architectural engineer, drew up plans for what orthonoid historians have dubbed a "Confederate Helicopter" to use in breaking the Union naval blockade. Even the Smithsonian admits that, as a helicopter, "the laws of aerodynamics were not on [its] side". Obviously, such a device wou...
Buoyancy proving a poor substitute for antigravity, on the 15th of April, 1912, J. J. Astor died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, taking with him whatever secrets he knew. Astor's was the last in a string of odd deaths, disappearances, and discreditings tied to public discussion about the secret of apergy: Greg over time became increasingly obses...
On March 26, 1912, a daring chain of robberies and murders in Paris using a stolen automobile as a get-away vehicle stoked public fears that modern technology could lead to crimes hitherto unimaginable, and difficult for victims or police to counter. An article in the Salt Lake Tribune (May 12, 1912, illustration above) asked the obvious question: ...
So, did Dr. Close expose a key secret of apergy -- that it can be controlled using a metal called "radlum" -- and was he disappeared for this transgression by an international conspiracy to suppress, or control, antigravity technology? Were other trouble-makers who threatened to expose apergetic secrets similarly dispatched? Could Dr. Close noting ...
Anti-gravity (also known as non-gravitational field) is a hypothetical phenomenon of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to either the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit, or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force, such as electromagnetism and ...
Feb 12, 2016 · Gravitational lensing is the bending of light around massive objects, such as a black hole, allowing us to view objects that lie behind it. During a total solar eclipse in May 1919, stars near the ...
The Discovery of a new physical Truth: there is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.(Which goes against Einstein’s E=mc 2).The usual Tesla birthday announcement – on his 79th birthday (1935) – Tesla made a brief reference to the theory saying it applies to molecules and atoms as well as to the largest heavenly bodies, and to “… all matter in the universe ...
The laws of gravity describe the trajectories of bodies in the solar system and the motion of objects on Earth, where all bodies experience a downward gravitational force exerted by Earth’s mass, the force experienced as weight. Isaac Newton was the first to develop a quantitative theory of gravity, holding that the force of attraction ...
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The theme of antigravity appeared early in science fiction, a typical 19th century example being "apergy" – an antigravity principle used to propel a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880) and borrowed for the same purpose by John Jacob Astor in A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).
