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Google Search (web and Books), plus short site checks, 2026-10-04

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Queries and what each returned

  1. "William J. Hooper" "motional electric field": rexresearch index and Gibson pages, Scribd copies, Google Patents (both patents), Academia.edu "Compilation of William Hooper's Work", the Natural Philosophy wiki, ResearchGate (Gilstrap 2017), TFCBooks. Positive (see the per-site notes).
  2. "Experimental Notes of Dr. William J. Hooper": TFCBooks 565hen page; studylib "Zero Point Energy: ZPower's Vision..." reading list (cites the notes "compiled by Frances G. Gibson" next to Jefimenko's Electrostatic Motors); wiki category pages. Positive.
  3. "Electrodynamic Gravity" Sarasota Hooper: - Scribd "Electrodynamic Gravity and Field Theory" (49 pp); - figueragenerator.wordpress.com newhorizons.pdf, which is identical to the rexresearch PDF; - TFCBooks New Horizons page ("The writer calls this artificially generated field Electrodynamic Gravity because it simulates gravity"); - Scribd "Antigravity Burridge". Its snippet says Hooper became Research Director of Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc., Sarasota, and "passed away suddenly on February 14, 1971". Not opened. - realstrannik.com, a Russian forum with a translation of the Similarities paper. Positive.
  4. "Joel E. Fisher" OR "Joel Fisher" gravity rotor magnets "Gravity Research Foundation" 1957: only Scribd ElectroGravitics images. Negative.
  5. "Fisher" "Hooper" gravity meter rotor magnets "American Physical Society" 1958: - rexresearch essay; Academia compilation; - Scribd "Handbook of Anti-Gravity Research", whose snippet cites NASA TM 106963; - hiroko.or.jp "803-page Collection of Papers on Anti-Gravity Research". Positive (it led to NASA TM 106963).
  6. "NASA TM 106963" OR "TM-106963" Hooper gravity electromagnetic coupling: - NTRS record; - Millis 2005 (Annals NYAS, "Assessing Potential Propulsion Breakthroughs") and Millis 1999 (Acta Astronautica, BPP program), both citing the Hooper test; - AIP Conf. Proc. 1297 (Millis). Positive.
  7. Cravens "Electric Propulsion Study" 1990 AL-CR-89-040 dtic: - Academia.edu copy (DTIC file copy AL-TR-89-040, AD-A227 121); - docs.house.gov hearing document (Nov 2024) listing the Cravens study in a UAP/DoD chronology; - DTIC ADA248649 (Choi 1992) citing it. Partial. DTIC was down; Academia was not visited.
  8. Hooper "Rotation of flux about a magnetic axis" OR "Unipolar Electromagnetic Induction" Hooper 1963: - wiki; - US5587618A "Direct current homopolar machine", which cites Hooper 1963; - Bruce DePalma, "Free Energy and the N Machine" (psychotronics.org), ref [15] Hooper 1963; - de Climont's dissident-scientist list. Positive for related work (homopolar / N-machine).
  9. "William J. Hooper" OR "W. J. Hooper" Principia College physics archives OR obituary 1971: - Kragh, Varying Gravity (dokumen.pub); - studylib "Brief Biographies"; - a de Grazia festschrift citing New Horizons (Tesla Book Co, 1974). Positive.
  10. Hooper Sarasota "gravity" 1970 OR 1971 "Herald-Tribune" OR newspaper "Electrodynamic": nothing relevant. Negative. Google News Archive was not searched directly.
  11. "A New Way to View Electrodynamics" Hooper motional: Lewey Gilstrap, ResearchGate preprint, July 2017 (pub. 318659...). Snippet: "Hooper in 1968 using the operational approach ... 'motional electric field' by Hooper, has the remarkable property ...". Scribd copy "ForceFieldsPaper". Partial: a lead for related theory (priority 3); not opened.
  12. "Gravity Research Foundation" "Gravity Day" 1957 Fisher magnets rotor "gravity meter": no match with quotes; the results without quotes were irrelevant. Negative.
  13. site:principia.edu Hooper physics: no documents. Negative.
  14. Google Books, Hooper "motional electric field" gravity "Bulletin of the American Physical Society":
    • Childress, Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field (1998) p.113, and M. B. King, Tapping the Zero Point Energy (2002) p.31. Both list New Horizons from "Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc., 543 Broad Boulevard, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221".
    • International Aerospace Abstracts 35 (1995) p.2650 abstracts Millis and Williamson.
    • No APS Bulletin hit. Partial.

Short site checks

  • WorldCat (https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHooper+ti%3A%22New+horizons+in+electric%22): "Your request was not allowed to complete. Please sign in". Blocked (sign-in required); not logged in.
  • Espacenet REST (scripted, FR2039172): empty response. Chrome was not tried before the stop. Partial; retry in Chrome.

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  • APS Bulletin abstracts:
  • Chicago, Nov 1958, Session S6;
  • St. Louis, Mar 1963;
  • Bull. APS 15(2):209 JC7, Feb 1970;
  • Boulder Conference proceedings 1970 p.483. Try HathiTrust full-text search and Google Books snippet searches.
  • Academia.edu "Compilation of William Hooper's Work" and the Cravens study copy.
  • Scribd: Burridge "Antigravity" (1958 American Mercury and the later Burridge piece with the 1971 death date), "Electrodynamic Gravity and Field Theory".
  • American Alpine Club obituary of J. E. Fisher.
  • Gravity Research Foundation archive (Babson / New Boston).
  • Google News Archive: Sarasota Herald-Tribune 1964-1971.
  • Ohio Secretary of State: Electrodynamic Gravity Inc.
  • USPTO Patent Center file wrappers for 722,587 / 816,366 and the fate of Ser. No. 803,187.
  • Principia College Library and Archives catalogue (QC178 .H7 1974; any Hooper papers).
  • Gilstrap 2017; Banduric patents; Mead 1972 AFRPL-TR-72-31.