2026-10-04 Internet Archive (archive.org)

Access: metadata API advancedsearch.php with curl, then the _djvu.txt full texts. Queries: Schaffranke; "Rho Sigma"; "Ether-Technology"; Searl AND Barrett (metadata search; full text is not indexed by this API). [web]

Hits

• rho-sigma-ether-technology, ether-technology-1996-rho-sigma-edgar-mitchell and two other uploads: copies of the project book.
• CUFORG_Vol_2_No_05_1981_03: CUFORG (Canadian UFO Research Group) newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 5, March 1981. https://archive.org/details/CUFORG_Vol_2_No_05_1981_03
• A review of the book gives the first-edition publisher: "Published by Tamhelm Press: P.O. Box 7, Lakemont, Georgia 30552 U.S.; $5.75". The review restates the book's Brown material, with errors of its own: "Townsend Brown ... came up with six patents on anti-gravity devices, one of which was so efficient it had to be shut off quickly before it developed enough inertia to fly apart." It also notes the chapter on "Project Outgrowth". This is the historical record of the book's reception (priority 4).
• secretofcreative0000davi: John Davidson, The Secret of the Creative Vacuum (C.W. Daniel, ISBN 0 85207 202 3; 1989 [memory, medium]). This is a secondary source.
• Davidson credits Schaffranke: "Now mostly retired, Schaffranke was one of the youngest co-workers with the famous rocket expert, Wernher von Braun, at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama and was later employed by Boeing."
• It reprints Schaffranke's 1973 correspondence with T.T. Brown: "Schaffranke managed, in 1973, to track down the whereabouts of Townsend Brown, discovering him in retirement at the age of sixty-eight, living in the Bahamas", and quotes Brown's reply on the vacuum tests (Paris 1955-56, Bahnson Laboratories Winston-Salem 1957-58, GE Space Center King of Prussia 1959: "Laboratory notes were made, but these notes were never published and are not available to me."). It also cites a second letter of 5 April 1973. These match the book's Brown letters (claim 1).
• Searl chapter (pp.~200-205): it derives the Searl story "largely from a scientific report by Searl's associate P.L. Barrett B.Sc., published in Rolf Schaffranke's book". So the book is the root source of the Barrett Report in later literature. Davidson then departs from Barrett: "Searl's explanation of centrifugal force and free electrons may not, in fact, be correct. The phenomenon is real, but could also be due to an induced electric current arising as the conductor is rotated in the earth's magnetic field." He puts the "breakthrough" instead in Searl's work with specially prepared magnets (two bar magnets with top-to-bottom polarity and rolling cylindrical magnets oscillating "at about 10 oscillations per second ... for two or three minutes"). This is the magnet-roller version of the Searl generator that appears in later Searl literature, as against the book's centrifugal-electron version (claim 3).
• huntforzeropoint0000cook: Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point (2002). Metadata matches "Schaffranke", but the djvu text had no hit (probably a lending-library item with restricted text). Not read.
• the-physics-of-the-primary-state-of-matter-and-application-schappeller: The Physics of the Primary State of Matter and Application Through the Primary Technique (1942, 1955). This is the "Davson, Physics of the Primary State of Matter" in Barret's bibliography (p.79) and the source of the "Schappeller theory" the book uses for the direction of ether flow (p.77-78). Not opened (time). Priority 3 lead.
• journal-of-borderland-research-vol-xliv-1988: matched "Ether-Technology" in metadata; no textual hit in the Jan-Feb 1988 djvu. Not followed further.
• Also matched: a CIA reading-room item (cia-rdp99-00498r000300090012-0, 1978 Jack Anderson interview), which surfaced on "Ether-Technology" metadata. Relevance unknown; not opened.