Wikipedia, "Hieronymus machine", 2026-10-04 (Investigator, Step I, run 1)

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_machine (Chrome, read in full). Secondary source.

Findings: - Dates: Thomas Galen Hieronymus, 21 Nov 1895 - 21 Feb 1988; US patent 1949. - Design summary: sample chamber, glass prism, copper-wire probe on a rotating armature; three-stage vacuum-tube RF amplifier; flat touch plate "surrounded by a copper wire bifilar coil"; operator feels "tingling" or "stickiness". Later solid-state versions replaced prisms with germanium transistors ("crystal prisms") and the armature with tunable capacitors; the Eloptic Medical Analyzer was the best-known product. (Cites Hieronymus 1976, The Eloptic Directory, pp.A-9, A-11.) - Theory as summarised: matter emits a non-electromagnetic radiation with properties of light and electricity, "eloptic" from electrical + optical. Wikipedia's own characterization: never detected by EM instruments, no other evidence, no mathematical theory; considered pseudoscience (citing Gardner 1957, Sladek 1973, Sampson & Vaughn 2000, Williams 2000). Recorded here as those sources' characterization. - John W. Campbell built and promoted it (Astounding June and Aug 1956); Campbell held it was psionic; Hieronymus held it was physical and objected that Campbell's ink-drawing version set his work back (autobiography 1988, pp.123-124). - References useful for later runs: Goodavage, "An Interview with T. Galen Hieronymus", Analog, Jan 1977; T. Galen & Sarah Hieronymus, The Eloptic Directory (Advanced Sciences and Research, Sept 1976); Hite (leehite.org); Popular Mechanics Oct 2015 "Spooky Action at a Distance"; Make Magazine vol. 9; Enigmatic Devices "Building the Symbolic Hieronymus Machine" (archived 2021); Aetheric Arts "Reconstructing the Aether".