1905-1921 Zanesville, Ohio Early childhood
1921-1923 Zanesville, Ohio Doane Academy
Radio experiments
Met Lee DeForest
1923-1924 Pasadena, Calfornia California Institute of Technology
First ideas about gravitational radiation
Rejected by Robert Millikan
Home lab
1924-1926 Zanesville, Ohio Denison Uiversity
Met Paul Biefeld
1926-1928 Zanesville, Ohio TTB courts Josephine Beale
September 8, 1928 Zanesville, Ohio TTB and Josephine marry
November 15, 1928 Cellular gravitator patent
1929-1930 Zanesville, Ohio Early married life
Experiments with L. K. Brown
Stock Market crash
Eldridge Johnson endowment to University of Pennsylvania for medical research
August 1929 "How I Control Gravitation"
Science and Invention magazine
October 29, 1929 stock market crash
December 4, 1929 TTB writes to Navy
June 24-25, 1930 TTB demonstration for General Motors
August 1930 affidavit from Paul Biefeld about rotating Biefeld-Brown effect and sidereal fluctuations
1930-1933 TTB in the Navy - active duty
September 3, 1930 TTB enlists in Navy at Cleveland, Ohio, basic training at Great Lakes Training Station
November 22, 1930 TTB is Honor Recruit, candidate for San Diego Navy Radio Training School
TTB is given orders to Naval Research Laboratory
February 26, 1931 TTB donates equipment to NRL
3 March 1931 TTB is assistant to officer in charge of radio school
March 16, 1931 TTB reports to NRL Anacostia, DC
January 1932 TTB is offered position on S-48 Vening Meinesz Navy-Princeton Gravity Expedition to West Indies, or Admiral Byrd's International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. Chooses S-48. "Superior skills as a lab man". Rank: Seaman First Class.
February 3, 1932 Earthquake in Santiago, Cuba. TTB rescues Vening Meinesz from rubble Other person helping in the rescue was a companion Harry Hess. future name in sonar development and Undersea explorations. 7 February - 17 March 1932 - S-48 gravity cruise, Cuba-Miami. Future admiral Hyman Rickover on board.
Spring 1932 TTB assigned to Physical Optics Division, recommended for higher pay scale
June-August 1932 Letter exchange, infighting over TTB's science posting. NRL personnel want him with them, Senators write on his behalf, Bureau of Navigation wants him to serve sea time, TTB proposes "mechanical reaction on fluids" study, Chief of Bureau of Engineering overrules Navigation
January 23 - early March 1933 Johnson-Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition on Eldridge Johnson's yacht Caroline. TTB is radar/sonar operator. First called 'Dr Brown'. Docks at Nassau, William Stephenson believed to have met TTB. Meets Florence Douglass. Expedition terminated due to financial panic over FDR's 'Bank Holidays'.
February 20, 1933 Orville Brown, 72, falls or jumps out a window - Brown family fortune almost all gone
April 18,1933 TTB promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade)
April/May 1933 TTB dismissed from active duty status owing to Navy budget cutbacks. Senator Robinson appeals on his behalf but is not successful.
1933-1938 TTB inactive from Navy "pending establishment of Gravity Section of Hydrographic Office, special projects in relief work, harbour protection on Lake Erie"
1934 (via Morgan) TTB demonstrates something at Nassau for Alfred Loomis and British Admiralty Loomis later continues development of instruments
13 March 1934 son Joseph Brown born
1 March 1936 TTB recruits for covert-sounding Dutch East Indies "scientific" expedition. Sidereal investigations continue - Fleming, Gish, Miller, Maris
Spring 1936 - May 1937 TTB and Josephine develop Hawthorne farm into Hawthorne Pool
24 December 1936 TTB finger amputation reported after "accident at Wise Foundry"
3 December 1937 TTB and Josephine divorce
January 1938 Townsend Brown Foundation set up
22 March 1938 TTB requests housing for instruments at Denison, Denison trustees decline
1938-1942 TTB active in Navy again
April 1938 TTB applies for full Lieutenant
20 June - 30 September 1938 TTB on USS Nashville shakedown cruise and "goodwill tour" - Carribbean, Philadelphia, France, Germany, Sweden, England. Loads $50 million of gold bullion in Portsmouth, for Chase Manhattan bank in New York.
10 June 1939 TTB reports he has built a sidereal radiation detector for University of Pennsylvania
1 September 1939 WW2 starts
1938 - 1940 Josephine serves at Bethesda Hospital as a nurse, then works as a courier in Washington DC for William Stephenson via Evelyn McBarnet
10 June 1940 TTB reports job as materials and processing engineer for Glenn Martin in Baltimore, flying boats
19 September 1940 TTB and Josephine remarry. Josephine is District Supervisor of WPA houskeeping aid project
1 October 1940 31 March 1941 - TTB reports occupation as acoustic and magnetic mine sweeping and design
7 December 1941 USA enters WW2
early 1942 TTB is Radio Officer, Ship's Service Officer and Educational Officer at Atlantic Fleet Radar School Norfolk, Virginia.
28 July 1942 TTB ordered to ship equipment to Radar School
30 September 1942 TTB resigns from Navy
1943-1945 Vega
November 1942 TTB moves into Wonderland Drive, Los Angeles and starts work at Vega (Lockheed). Working with Bradford Shank
1 December 1942 Vega notebook - UHF antenna and 'Structure of Space'
1945 Germany
12 April 1945 FDR dies, TTB immediately called into occupied Germany to retrieve technology for Caroline/Nassau, Halifax bomber NA337, Accompanied by Twigsnapper/O'Riley/Boston as bodyguard (associated with John Godfrey's 30th Assault Unit?), Suggestion that the rumours of underground Nazi research facilities in Bavaria were true, Crosses path with Howard Campaigne's US Army TICOM unit, and Robert Sarbacher's unit working for British Director of Naval Intelligence, Shot in the lung during botched scientist retrieval. Unnamed German scientist is dead. Convalesces at a classified US Army hospital in the UK near Farm Hill, Sarbacher and O'Riley rescue Richard Miethe from Soviet internment camp with Hans Von Luck's assistance.
1945- 1947 Laguna Beach, Los Angeles Sometime here Bradford Shank produces very early anti-nuclear documentary "Where Will You Hide?"
June 1945 Josephine moves to Laguna Beach
August 1945 TTB returns to Laguna Beach and continues recovering, "The Rain on the Window papers" written sometime around here? (Those pages were dated 1944)
11 December 1945 daughter Linda Ann Brown born
Its alot of work and there is still more to be done. This was just an outline and I stopped at my birthday. THATS the kind of work that you have to do Exterminator... and thats just scratching the surface. Each note there represents alot of paperwork which backs it up. For example.... My Mom and Dads divorce ( I never knew about it until this flow of information came in our direction.) and I have been told that I probably have another years work just to uncover the events that are just barely touched here or not even mentioned at all.
Linda
