No one, to date, has provided hard data as to how the idea that Brown invented a diode that exhibited a quantum tunneling effect ever came about. Performing a search of the ttbrown forum yielded the following results.
The very first mention of "tunnel diode" was by Paul.
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4045#p4045Paul wrote:Me Too
Postby Paul S. » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:13 pm
Elizabeth Helen Drake wrote:I have read NOTHING about satellites and his work. NOTHING. So does that mean he had no involvement and we are on the wrong rabbit hole?
I'm right there with you, Elizabeth, as you well know.
I have heard -- what? Inferences? -- that Townsend Brown was involved in the earliest efforts toward developing surveillance satellites in the mid-late 1950s. There's something in my notes about
"tunnel diode" that is perhaps related to the subject. But beyond these VERY veiled references, like Elizabeth: I got NADA.
It mystifies me that this subject would remain so indelibly concealed after nearly 50 years. Does that mean that technologies developed in the 1950s are still in use today and must be kept under wraps? Why else would all this be so hush hush that my "reliable sources" have been even less forthcoming on this subject than they have been on others that seem at least as controversial (time travel, f'rinstance).
But it occurs to me that there might be another consideration: you know, you put a ring of communications devices out in space around the whole planet, and it does become your first line of defense -- or, at least, contact -- with whatever lies beyond...
--PS
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6156#p6156Something of note should be made here, as of approximately January 7, 2007, Elizabeth Helen Drake, Linda Brown to those that may not know, stated publicly that she had read NOTHING about Dr. Brown being associated with any work on satellites. One must assume, since it is Linda Brown, that there are no references anywhere in the Brown family archives, for if there were, the last 7 years of guessing could have been avoided and would have helped to substantiate the claims made elsewhere.
Elizabeth Helen Drake wrote:The word "tunnel"
Postby Elizabeth Helen Drake » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:05 pm
Mikado,
Strangely when I saw the word "tunnel" I did not even first think of the Berlin tunnel! I thought of the word "tunneling" as in " quantum tunneling"
and the other thought that at the same time leapt into my brain was " tunnel" (as in a special type of diode.) Mikado, of course , and Trickfox again, I thought of you particularly.
Then of course the mention of the "Lend Lease supply ships" and the thought came into my head again about that being a sort of tunnel too. With goods flowing through it.
So here we introduce ONE word and get all of these responses and with it, am I the only one who is seeing this? Some sort of strange and unhinged communication of concepts? using the same word but each having a different meaning to each of us? And somehow it sort of "organizes itself together". Does this happen all the time? Am I just beginning to notice the particulars of this?
Its like the poems the Jabberwocky where the words were nonsensical perhaps but they evoked to Alice the "impression" that something very special was happening here and she needed to take notice of it. And you see thats all connected too or Victoria wouldn't have used the phrase " Beware the jubjub bird", (which for those new to this thread, is a quote from the poem Jabberwock by Lewis Carroll.)
And Victoria. I latched on to that Jubjub bird as being a bomber, to others it might be something else entirely and that is fine, but I saw bombers.... there is something about the sound of it that just sounds like a bomber. The deep thumping sound "JUB" "JUB" of bombs falling and exploding somewhere in the distance. I think suddenly of that scene from Mrs. Minnever and how she and her children were listening to the bombs exploding above as she read the lines from" Alice."
And a submarine for fuminous bandersnatch. To me " fuminous" evokes under water and "bandersnatch" ... all I can think of is a duck with its legs paddling, being suddenly taken down by something from below. Snatched suddenly from below. Thats what bandersnatch means to me,but again, it probably is meant to mean something entirely different to someone else. Whats a "non-fuminous Bandersnatch anyway?) And each of our interpretations is valid!
And again we are all together now in this rabbit hole, trying to see what is actually here. And I have come to the strong conclusion that some of us are beginning to see. What a magical world this is! Elizabeth
http://www.ttbrown.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 666#p10666This following post is the first use of the term -
" 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."Paul uses the word "think", which indicates he hasn't any concrete evidence and the part in parenthesis is extrapolation on what a tunnel diode is by definition. He openly admits that there are puzzle pieces but in tracing it back, the pieces appear to be created by posters offering up opinions.
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:
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#p10666This 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#p11943The 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#p12183More 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