Hieronymus-TG: Investigator site log

Run 1: 2026-10-04 (first run; no earlier sites.md). Normal time cap (10 min). Web time used: about 6 min (timer 15:15:38 to 15:21:23 CDT); stopped early with the main sources read, leaving the remaining queue below for run 2. Chrome was used for all browsing (own tab, closed at the end); WebFetch was used only where Chrome's PDF viewer exposed no text (USPA newsletter, Hite PDF) and archive.org's JSON/OCR text endpoints were read with curl.

Downloads: none saved to research/files in this run (each needs the owner's approval). Candidates are listed under "Files to download" below.

Keywords tried

Google Patents: US2482773A; inventor:Hieronymus before:priority:19900101; inventor:"Thomas G Hieronymus"; inventor:"Galen Hieronymus"; GB663978A; CA486008A; US2115578A. archive.org: Hieronymus AND (eloptic OR radionic OR psionic); title:(astounding) AND date:[1956-01-01 TO 1956-12-31]; title:(secret life of plants) AND creator:(Tompkins); title:(analog) AND date:[1977-01-01 TO 1977-01-31]; identifier:Analog_v97* OR (title:(Analog Science) AND year:1977). Google web: "Thomas Galen Hieronymus" OR "T. Galen Hieronymus" eloptic; Hite "Hieronymus Hoax" Pathoclast pdf; "Radiation Laboratories" Hieronymus "Kansas City"; "Hieronymus" radionic OR eloptic "Food and Drug" OR FDA OR "Post Office" 1950s device seized; "Advanced Sciences Research and Development" Lakemont Georgia Hieronymus; Hieronymus "Apollo 8" astronauts eloptic OR radionic report Huntsville "Rho Sigma" OR Schaffranke; "Hieronymus" "Kansas City" patent 1949 "emanations" newspaper OR site:newspapers.com. Google Books: "Hieronymus" "eloptic" (to 1985). Sunbiz: entity name ADVANCED SCIENCES RESEARCH.

Keyword bank for next runs (from the documents and this run): Thomas Galen Hieronymus; T. G. Hieronymus; Galen Hieronymus; "Hieronymous" (Campbell's spelling); Louise Barbara Williams Hieronymus; Sarah Williams Hieronymus; C. Earl Hovey (patent attorney); Radiation Laboratories, Inc., 4209 Michigan Ave, Kansas City; Experimental Special Data Bulletin; Electric Biometer; Atomic Analyzer; Radiation Analyzer No. 508; Eloptic Medical Analyzer; Eloptic Directory; International Radionics Association, Springfield MO; The Truth about Radionics (1947); Pathoclast; Pathometric Laboratories / Pathometric Society; J. W. Wigelsworth; Glen Wills; Grace Edwards D.C., Omaha; Stanley Rogers; Jensen Clinic, Ponca City; Rolf Schaffranke ("Rho Sigma"); John W. Campbell; Joseph Goodavage; Kansas City Power & Light; Serial No. 555,553 (1944, abandoned); Serial No. 705,028; US 2,482,773; GB 663,978 (GB18866/49); CA 486,008; Hall US 2,115,578; Hayes US 1,954,204; eloptic; "growing plants in the dark"; prism refraction element atomic weight; isotope "radiation distance".

Files to download (owner approval needed; not downloaded)

• archive.org: TheStoryOfElopticEnergy.pdf, 59.1 MB, https://archive.org/download/the-story-of-eloptic-energy/TheStoryOfElopticEnergy.pdf (the inventor's autobiography; key priority-1 source; deep read recommended).
• archive.org: Journal of Borderland Research vol. 44 no. 3 (May-June 1988) PDF, 23.6 MB, https://archive.org/details/journal-of-borderland-research-vol-xliv-1988
• leehite.org: The Hieronymus Hoax.pdf, 9.6 MB, https://leehite.org/documents/The%20Hieronymus%20Hoax.pdf
• archive.org: Astounding June 1956 and Aug 1956 issues (Campbell articles), https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS and https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n06_1956-08_Gorgon776

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• Patent family (all claims): GB 663,978 (filed 18 Jul 1949, published 2 Jan 1951, title "...measurement of the quantities of said materials") and CA 486,008 (26 Aug 1952). The GB abstract confirms the drawing numerals (amplifier 70, detector 72, transformer 74) that the US text layer garbles. [web] https://patents.google.com/patent/GB663978A/en ; https://patents.google.com/patent/CA486008A/en
• Autobiography (1988) gives the data the patent omits (claim 3): a 1600-division quadrant on which a beryllium isotope reads ~186 and bismuth ~1097; a specimen set of 40+ elements, ~35 run for angle (Li to Th); Analyzer No. 508 run on Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni with peak counts matching isotope counts and a "nuclear weight factor" curve; a stated test plan for inter-operator and inter-instrument agreement (within half a graduation). Whether that plan was carried out is not stated in the passages read. [web] archive.org autobiography pp.233, 237-238, 266-267
• Principle stated in nuclear terms (claim 3): his 1941 hypothesis is that an element's energy refracts through a prism in the order of the contents of the nucleus; elsewhere "direct proportion to the atomic weight"; Tompkins & Bird quote "exact proportion to the number of particles in the nucleus". [web] autobiography pp.89, 228; Secret Life of Plants p.335
• Plant experiment dated 1931, Kansas City cellar (claim 6): his own date; Tompkins & Bird add aluminium-lined boxes, ground to a water pipe, separate copper wires to sunlit outdoor plates, seed grain. Still no counts or measurements. [web] autobiography p.88; Secret Life of Plants p.334
• Experimental Special Data Bulletin (claims 1-4, 6): Radiation Laboratories' monthly, Jan 1948 to at least Jul 1949, contemporaneous with the patent; not located (USPA wants it). Highest-value missing primary source. [web] USPA News vol.4 no.4 (2018)
• 1972 "Random Notes" from conversations with Hieronymus (claims 2, 4, 5): raw 60 Hz AC on the plates by design; odd number of stages required; Bakelite insulates, Plexiglas transmits, light "shorts" the energy; an opaque black Plexiglas prism refracted like glass; resistance-to-ground "intensity" method and its calibration drift; and diagnosis works "just as well" with power disconnected. [web] Hite PDF appendix pp.33-34
• Properties he attributes to eloptic energy (claim 2): conducted/insulated/shielded/stored/amplified; refracted, focused, diffracted, reflected; carried on light; destroyed by X-rays and UV; affected by magnetic fields; analyzers erratic after atomic tests; radioactive isotopes "radiate" further (inches to feet). [web] autobiography pp.173, 227-228, 267
• Other own works to obtain: Eloptic Energy: Another Form of Energy... (1956 pamphlet; possibly the archive.org audiobook); The Eloptic Directory (1976); Eloptic Medical Directory (1977, 212 pp., copyright A877045); "History of Radionics" audiotape, USPA conference, Univ. of Houston (1979); Advanced Sciences Research and Development Advisory newsletter (e.g. Jul-Aug 1986); possibly The Truth about Radionics (1947, anonymous, attribution unverified).

2. Supporting information by others

• John W. Campbell built the analyzer from the patent alone (claims 1-5): Astounding June 1956 reports "positive results" without contact with the inventor; Aug 1956 adds the inventor's tips (6SJ7/9003 tubes, 0.0005 in. wire electrodes, narrow slit) and Campbell's observations: success depends on the operator (best with young girls, worst with technically trained men), the device works equally well unplugged, but not with a defective tube. One documented independent build; the unplugged result conflicts with the patent's electrical model; both points stay in the record. [web] archive.org Astounding Jun/Aug 1956
• Huntsville engineers' duplication and Apollo 8 monitoring (claims 1-2, extension): the autobiography's preface ("Rho Sigma", identified by Tompkins & Bird as Rolf Schaffranke, NASA-contractor propulsion engineer) says ~20 engineers heard the Hieronymuses, some duplicated the instrument "with success", and a 300-copy report with graphs was circulated and given to Wernher von Braun. Documented in two published sources (1973 book, 1988 preface) from the same circle; the report itself not yet found. [web] autobiography pp.xi-xiii; Secret Life of Plants pp.338-340
• Submarine test (claim 2: no attenuation): the Hieronymuses say they tracked crew vitality on a submarine submerged at 50 ft off Key West. Single source (autobiography p.315); no date, names or data in the passage.
• Simon Martin cress experiment (claim 6, related): 1988 home trial with measured lengths and colour in light vs dark; no wires, so not a replication; it shows dark-grown cress yellow and light-grown green, the baseline any wired-plant replication would need. [web] JBR May-June 1988 pp.14-16

3. Closely related work

• Pathoclast / Pathometric line (claim 5, detector): Wigelsworth's Pathoclast (Pathometric Laboratories, Chicago, from 1926), rebuilt and modified by Hieronymus for Glen Wills in the late 1930s; Hite's 1995+ engineering test of a Pathoclast 1X-C found the "stick" at dial settings where the amplifier oscillated, an RF signal pulsed at 60 Hz on the plate, settings shifted by operator posture, and no correlation with samples; he calls it a hoax (his characterization; he is a critic). This device is a medical rate instrument, not the patented prism analyzer, but it shares the amplifier and stick-plate detector. [web] leehite.org PDF pp.6-14
• Albert Abrams's instruments (lineage): Hieronymus owned some of Abrams's first instruments and used them for mineral finding with Stanley Rogers. [web] autobiography p.88
• Campbell's "symbolic" machine (ink-drawn circuit with a prism symbol) and later "Hieronymus-type" two-dial radionic instruments still sold and taught (Kelly Research Technology, 2018). Mainstream sources (Gardner 1957, Sladek 1973, Williams 2000, Sampson & Vaughn 2000, via Wikipedia) class the device as pseudoscience; recorded as their characterization. [web] Wikipedia; USPA News 2018
• Patents citing US 2,482,773 (13), e.g. Machts US 2,930,977 (1960), Well Surveys US 2,972,251 (1961), Volland US 4,260,933 (1981), Mendes Waechter WO 2013/155580 "Scalar energy generation device". Not read. [web] Google Patents
• Cited prior art: Hall (assignee Hayes) US 2,115,578 "Radiant energy receiver" (1938), a thermal-pneumatic detector of ordinary radiation. Corrects facts.json ("content not checked"). [web] https://patents.google.com/patent/US2115578A/en

4. Historical record

• Radiation Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City (absence of evidence: the company stops c.1950): Hieronymus says he sold the laboratory and stopped building instruments in 1950 because (a) banking rule changes ended discounting of out-of-state doctors' notes, and (b) AMA-driven FDA pressure on users. Competing explanations to test: commercial failure (his reason a), regulatory pressure (his reason b), absorption into Pathometric Laboratories / "Radionics Incorporated" (Hite names both as makers). Records that would decide: Missouri corporate filings, FDA notices of judgment 1948-1955, Kansas City newspapers, the Data Bulletin. An FDA/court Google query found nothing on Hieronymus himself (Hite says he "remained uncensored"). [web] autobiography p.90; Hite p.13
• Patent assignments: two assignments under US 2,482,773 to Radiation Laboratories, Inc. (human medical diagnosis; chemical lab analysis); GB and CA rights kept by him. Check USPTO assignment records. [web] autobiography p.242
• AIEE membership listing names him president of Radiation Laboratories, Inc. (blocked; date unknown). [web] IEEE Xplore hit
• Advanced Sciences Research and Development Corp.: Florida non-profit filed 21 Mar 1967, dissolved 23 Aug 1996; Sarah Hieronymus president; later Lakemont, GA (PO Box 109) and Sparta, GA. [web] Sunbiz no. 712451
• Biography: born 21 Nov 1895 Valparaiso, IN; WWI signal service (117th Field Signal Bn, 42nd Division); KCP&L engineer 1919 to ~1946 (Chief Engineer, underground installation); died 21 Feb 1988, Lakemont, GA. Hite could not confirm an engineering degree and believes the doctorate was honorary. [web] Hite pp.4-6; autobiography p.89; Wikipedia
• Date conflicts to resolve: GB 663,978 publication 2 Jan 1951 (Google Patents) vs "approved 2 January 1952" (Hite); Advanced Sciences corp. "1975" (Hite) vs 1967 (Sunbiz).