Dollard-Eric · Source catalogue

Preface-style article: says electrical science went dormant after Steinmetz, Tesla and Heaviside because of vested interests (the 'Edison Effect'), and that Steinmetz was hired by GE to decipher Tesla's patents. Then explains induction (EMF from a moving bar magnet, counter-EMF under load), the 'virtual pole' of a two-phase rotating magnetic field that a field magnet locks onto, and apparatus Figs 1-3 in which mechanical force is applied along the shaft axis. Mostly standard two-phase machine theory in Dollard's vocabulary; rotating field called 'Caduceus coil, spinning wave, double helix, solar cross'. Figure pages (pp.21-23) have garbled OCR. Step 0 OCR text (tesseract, all 29 pages) exists for this scan; OCR is noisy (e.g. the symbol pi is lost, so pi/2 reads as '/2' or '7?/2').

Key claims

• A two-phase rotating magnetic field can be described as a 'virtual pole' that circulates once per EMF cycle and drags a field magnet round with it.
• Electrical science stalled after c.1900 because of commercial interests (the 'Edison Effect').

Relevance: Peripheral; sets the Tesla/Steinmetz reading list for the rest of the compilation.

Mainstream conflict: Rotating-field mechanics: none. The 'vested interests' claim is historical opinion with no evidence offered.

Wide-ranging interview. Brown (Dollard's publisher) reports personally witnessing wireless propagation, several-inch sparks from insulators and odd forms in gas bulbs, which is the only 'evidence'. The interview has no measurements, diagrams or equations. Testable assertions found by the deep read (page in brackets): Farnsworth's multipactor, a secondary-emission negative-resistance tube that 'tends to take off' on a Tesla coil, is 'probably the only real free energy device that anyone ever demonstrated which can be reproduced' [p.2]; the dielectric side of electricity is 'the faster than light phenomenon' [p.3]; Tesla's terminal puts out 'a dielectric current of many amperes flowing through free space without any electrons' [p.4]; Tesla-coil discharges follow golden-ratio log spirals [p.4]; a four-year Sonoma State University project found weather 'very tightly coupled' to solar-flare cycles, with rain rising after solar cycle 21 flares fell [pp.5-6]; geomagnetic reversal would turn Earth from a 'magnetic' into a 'dielectric' regime needing ceramic compasses [p.6]; 'the velocity of light continually changes which changes the capacity of all capacitors and changes the effect of orgone' [p.7]; the orgone accumulator's dielectric layers slow light and metal layers reflect the EM part while the dielectric part passes through [p.7]; RCA used 90-degree planetary alignments ('radio astrology') for circuit predictions [p.8]; the 'planet hums at 60 cycles' and the national grid runs in phase [p.10]; sonar at 750,000 W harms whales [p.10]; dielectric waves are 'productive and advanced' and 'free energy will come from the dielectric field where energy grows rather than decays' [p.11]; every free-energy claimant is a fraud except one unnamed private worker [p.11]; nuclear plants barely break even [p.12]. About half the text is social commentary (psychotronic TV, food additives, 'techno-fascism'), listed so it is not mistaken for science. Internal tensions noted by the deep read: the multipactor is an electron device while his real free energy is current 'without electrons'; the accumulator is likened to a capacitor yet said to pass E-fields through metal.

Key claims

• Farnsworth's multipactor tube is a reproducible free-energy device (p.2).
• A Tesla transmitter terminal carries many amperes of 'dielectric current' through free space without electrons (p.4).
• The dielectric component of electricity travels faster than light (pp.3, 11).
• The speed of light changes continually and so changes the capacitance of all capacitors (p.7).
• Energy grows rather than decays in the dielectric field, so free energy can come from it (p.11).
• Planetary right-angle alignments predict radio disruption, as RCA used for circuit predictions (p.8).
• Weather is tightly coupled to solar-flare cycles, per a four-year Sonoma State project (pp.5-6).
• A zero-magnetic-field Earth would be a 'dielectric' regime in which compasses need ceramic (p.6).
• The orgone accumulator works by dielectric layers slowing light and a magneto-dielectric separation (p.7).
• All public free-energy claimants are frauds except one unnamed person (p.11).

Relevance: Only place in the folder with Dollard's positive free-energy claim (multipactor) and his statements on orgone, planets, weather and 'velocity of light changes'; also shows he is sceptical of much of his own community (ELF mind control, Woodpecker, claimants).

Mainstream conflict: Strong for FTL dielectric waves, energy growth, variable c and ceramic compasses. 'Current without electrons' has a mainstream reading as displacement current. Multipactor oscillation is negative-resistance conversion of supply power (not net gain) [memory: medium, not web-checked]. RCA planetary work matches J.H. Nelson's 1940s-50s claims [memory: medium, not web-checked]; mainstream forecasting uses solar flux. Whole-US grid in phase is wrong as stated (several asynchronous interconnections) [memory: high].

Argues energy transmission needs a closed circuit whose conductor boundary encloses space; energy is dissipated as heat in the conductor while the 'aetheric stress' outside is the electric field. Gives C = 1/c^2 as the 'capacitance' of the circuit in units with (4*pi*10^-9 p) factors, inductance L as an area l1*l2 in cm^2 (L = l0^2), natural period t0^2 = -LC and impedance Z0^2 = -L/C. Concludes conductors are 'electric obstructors' that reflect energy and insulators are the true conductors. The meaning of the factor 'p' and the unit conventions remain unresolved. Persistent currents in superconductors are called 'perpetual motion, an unlikely proposition' (p.16).

Key claims

• Energy is carried by the aetheric space between conductors; conductors only guide and reflect it.
• Insulators, not metals, are the true conductors of electromagnetism.
• With C = 1/c^2 and L = l0^2, t0^2 = -LC and Z0^2 = -L/C describe a circuit's natural period and impedance.

Relevance: Source of claim 1 (energy in the space, not the wire). The Poynting-vector picture is the mainstream version of this.

Mainstream conflict: Energy flow in fields: mainstream (Poynting). 'Insulators are the true conductors' and C = 1/c^2 as stated need unit checking; negative signs in t0^2 = -LC use his symbolic (j-operator) convention [memory: medium].

Looks at medium-frequency (300-3000 kc/s) broadcast: with widely spaced guide wires the electric field extends far beyond them and remote wire systems share fields by mutual induction. Energy lost in wide-spaced systems is large while the heat gained is disproportionately small, unlike close-spaced systems where loss is fully accountable as heat; he hedges that 'hysteresis of the aether' may not be the correct interpretation. Cites Tesla and Wheatstone for a propagation factor of pi/2 (1.57) times the speed of light (the digests wrongly give sqrt(2); the OCR shows 'pi lost' and 1.57 confirms pi/2). Ferrite-core antennas respond to magnetic induction only and are directional, capacity antennas respond to dielectric induction only and are non-directional, so neither works by 'electromagnetic induction' (p.19).

Key claims

• Energy fed to a broadcast tower that is not returned or dissipated as heat is lost to 'hysteresis of the aether', not radiated.
• Dielectric induction propagates at pi/2 times the speed of light (Tesla, Wheatstone).
• Magnetic and dielectric induction propagate independently and are received by different antenna types.

Relevance: Source of claims 2 and 4.

Mainstream conflict: Strong: radiated power is accounted for by Poynting flux; a pi/2 c propagation speed conflicts with Maxwell's equations and measured wave speeds on transmission lines.

Duplicate of the standalone PDF; see that entry. Lines of force, stored field energy, infinite current on a short circuit, supercapacitance, mutual capacity to the universe, conjugate space.

Key claims

• See the Introduction-to-Dielectricity entry.

Relevance: Same article as the standalone PDF.

Mainstream conflict: See that entry.

Duplicate of the 2010 scan of the compilation, same page order and content; not separately summarised. See the entries for the 2010 scan.

Key claims

• See the entries for the 2010 scan.

Relevance: Redundant second scan; useful only for clearer figure pages.

Mainstream conflict: Same as the 2010 scan.

4-page web print (6 June 2019) of JBR Vol.46 No.2 pp.10-13. Dollard argues capacitance is dielectric field energy along Faraday-Steinmetz lines of force, not stored electrons: dielectric lines end on conductors, magnetic lines close on themselves; inductance stores energy outward (broadside) and in parallel, capacitance inward along the axis and in series. On a short circuit the dielectric field 'explodes' inward 'with a velocity that may exceed light' and current 'jumps to infinity', then a following line 'limits the rise of current to a realistic value'. LC exchange frequency is the inverse of the product of the storages, the ratio is the characteristic impedance (the 'pulsation'); high impedance with rapid change might compress energy into matter ('supercapacitance'); free-space capacitance of an object is its mutual capacity to all conductors in the universe; Steinmetz's infinite free-space inductance of a filament; 'conjugate space'. Also gives '250 KWH for lightning stroke' (about 0.9 GJ, unused by earlier steps; mainstream estimates run roughly 1-10 GJ per flash [memory: medium]). Cites J.J. Thomson, Steinmetz 1914 and 1920.

Key claims

• Capacitance is dielectric field energy stored in lines of force, not accumulated electrons.
• Dielectric energy is stored inward along the axis and in series, so a smaller bounded space stores more (opposite of magnetism).
• When voltage is shorted the dielectric field collapses at a velocity that may exceed light and current jumps to infinity.
• The LC exchange frequency is the inverse of the product of magnetic and dielectric storage; their ratio is the characteristic impedance.
• High impedance with rapid change could compress dielectric energy into matter ('supercapacitance').
• Free-space capacitance of an object is the sum of its mutual capacitances to all conductors in the universe.
• A lightning stroke carries about 250 kWh.

Relevance: Clearest statement of the dielectric/magnetic duality that underlies claims 2, 3 and 6.

Mainstream conflict: Mixed: lines of force, LC resonance, Z=sqrt(L/C) and field energy are mainstream; FTL collapse, infinite current (an idealisation of zero resistance) and energy-to-matter conflict with relativity and circuit theory.

30-page scanned typescript with a poor OCR layer; no drawings, equations, tables, measurements or test data anywhere, only prose and numbered lists. Part Three (San Andreas seismic warning, Bolinas to Pacifica) appears in the contents but is absent: the text ends inside Part Two item (6)(h). No frequency, loading value, spacing or lead time is given. System: an antenna (space domain; loaded transmission-line aerials with many earth contacts), a network (time domain; conjugate low-pass and high-pass artificial lines acting as a transient 'discriminator'), and an amplifier (scalar domain; tunnel diode, multipactor, transistor, parametric). Receiving points arranged 'in quadrature groups of four' (body) or 'groups of 3 in Scott configuration' (footnote p.11; the Scott connection is a standard 2-phase/3-phase transformer connection, unexplained); plan position indicators (P.P.I.) show source location. Claimed: a single-wire (unipolar) earth connection, reciprocity not applicable (induction-machine slip analogy), the antenna cannot receive external EM waves (p.5) yet a rejection aerial loaded to propagate at exactly c is needed to cancel EM interference (pp.9-10). History (pp.14-20, author's interpretation, no citations): Tesla's 1900 oscillation transformer as a unipolar phase transformer; Marconi's Flat Top turned it into an ineffective capacity structure; Alexanderson's 1919 sectionalised loaded aerial (GE and US Navy) restored directivity and bandwidth; Dollard proposes dividing the ground part into independent vertical earth elements with an overhead counterpoise. General theory (pp.20-22): any wave is a superposition of magnetic and dielectric induction; a TEM wave has fields perpendicular to each other and to the axis with ratio c; a complementary 'longitudinal magneto-dielectric' (L.M.D.) wave has fields collinear with propagation, ratio not equal to c, and dimension 'per unit length per unit time' (the 'counter-velocity'); the telluric wave is complex, real part TEM and imaginary part L.M.D. Harmonics: TEM Fo, 3Fo, 5Fo with amplitudes Ao, Ao/3, Ao/5; L.M.D. Fo, Fo/3, Fo/5 ('degressive') with the same amplitudes; asserted, not derived. Seismic claim: waves in the advance interval before a quake have a 'specific, distinct waveform' (p.12), with no evidence. Part Two (pp.23-30) is numbered claim-style repetition with no new quantities; numbering slips and a contents/body mismatch.

Key claims

• Electric waves exist inside the solid earth that are not ordinary EM waves and can be received by a loaded aerial with many earth contacts.
• A telluric wave is complex: a TEM part (velocity) plus a longitudinal magneto-dielectric part whose 'counter-velocity' has dimension per unit length per unit time and whose fields are collinear with propagation.
• L.M.D. waves have a degressive harmonic series Fo, Fo/3, Fo/5 against the TEM series Fo, 3Fo, 5Fo.
• The law of reciprocity does not apply to antenna-earth coupling, and a single unipolar earth connection suffices.
• An overhead rejection aerial propagating at exactly c cancels EM interference at a telluric receiver.
• A time-domain transient filter can pick out a specific precursor waveform produced before an earthquake, giving advance seismic warning.
• Tesla's oscillation transformer was a telluric transmitter, Marconi's Flat Top destroyed that function, and Alexanderson's loaded aerial improved it (historical interpretation).

Relevance: Sole source for claim 5. Turns the dielectric/longitudinal ideas into an engineering design and one testable prediction (precursor detection), but supplies no data or numbers.

Mainstream conflict: Strong for the wave theory: a source-free longitudinal plane E/B wave conflicts with div E = 0 and div B = 0, and a 'velocity' of dimension per length per time is not a speed [memory: high; reviewers to confirm]. Sub-harmonics at Fo/3 need nonlinearity or parametric pumping [memory: high]. Ground-contact antennas, filters and ULF/ELF earthquake-precursor research are mainstream topics; the claimed non-EM structure and reciprocity violation are not. Historical readings of Tesla, Marconi and Alexanderson contradict standard history that treats them as EM radiators [memory: medium].

The manifest holds 4 documents: the two scans of the compilation (OCR'd), EPDPaper (text layer), and the standalone Dielectricity article (text layer). No documents were skipped. Dollard's longer books (Theory of Wireless Power, Symbolic Representation of the Generalized Electric Wave, Condensed Intro to Tesla Transformers) are cited but not in the folder.

Relevance: Coverage record.

Mainstream conflict: none