Mikado from tunnel diode thread wrote:Top
The Evolution of the Tunnel Diode/Quantum Tunneling per TT B
by Mikado14 » Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:45 pm
Paul wrote:
The Next Twist / Convergence
Postby Paul S. » Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:30 pm
OK Kids, grab the handlebars now, because this is where we're going next:
James Barrett wrote:
http://www.nro.gov/PressReleases/prs_rel40.html"NRO HONORS PIONEERS OF NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE
August 18, 2000
I recognized one name in this list:
Reid D. Mayo
Mr. Reid Mayo, at the Naval Research Laboratory, conceived and designed the first Navy signals intelligence satellite, GRAB/DYNO, and later served as project engineer and technical director of Program C.
Some of you who have been following right along know that one of my "open" sources is a book called "Body of Secrets" by national security journalist James Bamford. That's where I saw Reid Mayo's name, on the heavily outlined and underscored pages 364-365 (which, if memory serves me, are pages that Morgan himself directed me to). I will excerpt for you:
Body of Secrets pg 364, James Bamford wrote:
At Howard Johnson's restaurant in Pennsylvania, during a blizzard, Reid D. Mayo was coming to the same conclusion. Stranded with his family at a rest stop during a snowstorm in early 1958, the NRL scientist began to work out the details with a pencil the back of a stained placemat...."I did some range calculations to see if truly we could intercept the signal from orbital altitude, and the calculations showed that clearly you could, up to something over six hundred miles..."
That paragraph marks the dawn of satellite reconnaissance. But wait, there's more:
Mayo had earlier completed another unique eavesdropping project: "The submarine service had us installing a small spiral antenna inside the glass of the periscope, and affixed to that spiral antenna was a small diode detector. It allowed the submarine skipper to have an electromagnetic ear as well as an eyeball above the surface. And it worked so well that we thought that there might be some benefit to raising the periscope just about -- maybe even to orbital attitude."
The next page goes into the (secret) launch of GRAB, the Navy's first "Elint" (Electronics Intelligence') satellite on May 5, 1960 (five days after the interception of Francis Gary Powers' U2 spy plane over Russia).
So, what you have there is a) submarine communications and b) satellite reconnaissance, and what ties them all together is c) some kind of "diode" detector.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to substantiate this, but I think that "diode detector" is something I will be introducing in the next chapter -- in, like, the section would be working on NOW if I weren't typing this instead.
Maybe Twigsnapper can ring a bell or something if we're on the right track here, but I think Townsend Brown and his "tunnel diode" (which drew on some kind of quantum tunneling phenomenon) are the link between all these puzzle pieces.
And of course, his name is NOT among those on the list honored by the NRO in 2000. But did you see the notation at the very bottom of the page?
*One Pioneer requested no identification.
Gee, I wonder who THAT mighta been??
--PS
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 666#p10666
This following post is in response to one Elizabeth Helen Drake made. It is the first post that uses the phrase "Dr. Browns special tunnel diode" and it is made by someone who openly admits - "Others out there please help me out here because I don't have a good grasp of all of this."
James Barrett wrote:
never sleep?
Postby James Barrett » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:26 am
Elizabeth,
Now thats a bunch of interesting information but the thing that I want to know the most is .... do you ever sleep? <g>
I can't even translate all of that Barrett information but I wonder if there is something similar here with something Dr. Brown might have been interested in.
Just a wild guess of course but this " shuttling" thing . Could that be somehow connected to Dr. Browns special " Tunnel diode" Isn't that some kind of fast acting switch?
Others out there please help me out here because I don't have a good grasp of all of this.
Just going on the hunch here that Elizabeth would not have picked up on this stream of information and brought it home and laid it at our feet here on the forum without it meaning something somewhere.
Obviously we are not playing in the standard sandbox here folks. JDB
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 943#p11943
The answer to the question is no, it is not connected to Dr. Brown's special "Tunnel diode" and it is not a fast acting switch in the use of the word switch.
This next post is the first use of Dr. Brown's special tunnel diode in a different thread after being used by James Barrett, therefore, it is the second time the term appears.
Geoff wrote:
Postby Geoff » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:02 am
Mikado,
Your illustration has elements that remind me of the circuit symbol for a diode. A diode allows current to flow in one direction, but not the other. I therefore guess that this illustration is of Dr Brown’s VERY SPECIAL ‘tunnel’ diode (which should not to be confused with common or garden tunnel diodes readily available in electronic stores).
I also guess that this diode allows information to ‘tunnel’ between the electro-magnetic realm and the electro-gravitic realm, and that the two ‘red triangles’ and the short ‘control line’ indicate that this device is switchable to allows the information to flow in one, the other, or both directions.
I imagine that the device consists mainly of ‘rock’.
I guess that the loudspeaker utilised such a device, as would an identical microphone.
Having said all that, I guess that I’m not very imaginative!
Look forward to seeing what others make of it.
Geoff
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 183#p12183
More to come later. There are 107 hits on a search with the term "tunnel diode". A good many of the hits are responses and talk in regard to a previous post.
Mikado