The Hieronymus Machine
Mark Robert Thorson
"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
of the Volumes Thereof"."
"This is a milestone as it is the first patent ever issued on a psychotronic
device."
"Because of the nature of his machine, and the desire to patent the basic
device, he put a small amount of his total knowledge on the subject into
his patent."
"The patent basically describes a device for the detection of emanations
from the basic elements, and is described as a machine for the analysis
of minerals."
"He has used it for far more things as described in his paper "Tracking
the Astronauts in Apollo 11"."
"The input part of the device may be any number of combinations, the
one used by Hieronymus is a coil wound around a plastic cup in which the
sample to be analysed is placed."
"Another type of input is a plastic plate with a spiral coil wound under
it."
"This device receives emanations from the sample."
"TUNING"
"In the case of the Hieronymus Machine, the tuning section is an optical
slit which is fed into a prism."
"It is said that these radiations which T. G. Hieronymus calls eloptic
radiation follow the same laws as light."
"The prism is rotated on a vernier dial, so the exact angle at which
the prism is rotated may be duplicated."
"A detector element, a small wire, intercepts the signal from the prism
and the signal is amplified by an ordinary vacuum tube audio amplifier."
"RESONANCE DETECTION"
"When the operator's mind and the emanations from the tuner are on the
same 'wavelength' a type of resonance is established, and the detector
indicates this mode."
"The Hieronymus detector is simply a sheet of bakelite or plexiglass
under which is placed a flat spirally wound coil, connected to the
output of the amplifier and ground."
"When resonance is established, there is a change of tactile characteristic
in the top of the detector."
"The change of characteristic is detected by lightly rubbing the
fingertips on the surface of the detector plate while tuning the
vernier dial of the prism."
"When resonance is established, by the position of the vernier dial,
and the thought held by the mind of the operator, a note is made of
the prism angle as determined by the vernier scale."
"Hieronymus has established numbers which correlate with the known
chemical elements and combinations."
"The thing which makes the system useful is that more than one operator
can use the machine and obtain the same results!"
"Hieronymus has credentials to back up his claims; he is a Fellow
of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
and is a Registered Professional Engineer."
"Although the Hieronymus machine cannot be explained by modern physics,
it does have merit by the fact that the results can be duplicated."
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|Quoting from _Pyramid_Power_ by Gil Patrick Flanagan (De Vorss, 1973):
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|"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
|2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
|of the Volumes Thereof"."
|
Wasn't this one debunked years ago. I seem to remember someone .. a
skeptic? :-) .. surreptitiously removing the prism from the device before
a major presentation. The operator gave the presentation, made his claims,
and was extremely embarrased when it was revealed that the machine was
not in "working" order.
I, too, am one of those people who have had remarkable psychic experiences
and yet still believe that random chance plus subliminal input from the
enviroment can explain it all.
In fact, I just had a dream last night about meeting someone at a business
convention I'm attending in Toronto next month. To the best of my
knowledge, I've never heard her name before, Bonny Leiderer. I'll let
you all know what happens. The dream also indicated that I would not give
my presentation at the conference because I forgot about it and went
swimming!
Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion...
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Larry M Headlund
>In article <46...@cup.portal.com> m...@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>|Quoting from _Pyramid_Power_ by Gil Patrick Flanagan (De Vorss, 1973):
>|
>|"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
>|2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
>|of the Volumes Thereof"."
>|
>
>Wasn't this one debunked years ago. I seem to remember someone .. a
>skeptic? :-) .. surreptitiously removing the prism from the device before
>a major presentation. The operator gave the presentation, made his claims,
>and was extremely embarrased when it was revealed that the machine was
>not in "working" order.
>
Joh Campbell (a believer) did a number of articles about it in the fifties
in Astounding/Analog. As I recall the effect was quite subjective (a plate
felt "sticky").
However, the removed prism incident is from the history of the
N-rays. This was quite a tragic case of a respected physicist in the
early years of this century apparently deluding himself. There was
a history article on this in Scientific American in the mid eighties.
The N-rays had nothing PSI in there makeup. Just a radiation that
turned out not to exist.
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Mark Robert Thorson
> skeptic? :-) .. surreptitiously removing the prism from the device before
> a major presentation. The operator gave the presentation, made his claims,
> and was extremely embarrased when it was revealed that the machine was
> not in "working" order.
Your version sounds suspiciously like the debunking of N-rays. Around
the turn of the century, French "scientists" claimed to have discovered
a new form of radiation detectable by the effect it would have on an
electric arc. It was also claimed that this radiation could be refracted
by a prism made of solid aluminum. The debunker was a scientist and
amateur magician who secretly removed the prism during a demonstration
of the supposed effect (the demonstration took place in a darkened room).
This was described in an article in Scientific American a few years ago.
Perhaps the same technique was used to debunk the Hieronymus machine,
but I'd like to see a reference before I believe that this isn't just a
mutated form of the N-ray story.
Richard A Hyde rah@btr.com
the Hieronymus Machine. Sorry about the bandwidth!
Rick
Warren Burstein
>Quoting from _Pyramid_Power_ by Gil Patrick Flanagan (De Vorss, 1973):
>"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
>2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
>of the Volumes Thereof"."
>"This is a milestone as it is the first patent ever issued on a psychotronic
>device."
Breaking it up into paragraphs at each sentence really made this a
whole lot more readable, yeah.
Anyway, since this article was posted to sci.skeptic, it seems
reasonable to ask if you, in fact, ordered the patent, built the
machine, and did experiments to see if it worked? Or would that be
against the "accept everything" rule of alt.paranormal?
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+|"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
+|2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
+|of the Volumes Thereof"."
+|
+
+Wasn't this one debunked years ago. I seem to remember someone .. a
+skeptic? :-) .. surreptitiously removing the prism from the device before
+a major presentation. The operator gave the presentation, made his claims,
+and was extremely embarrased when it was revealed that the machine was
+not in "working" order.
Wasn't that the infamous 'N'-rays debarcle?
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> m...@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>
>>Quoting from _Pyramid_Power_ by Gil Patrick Flanagan (De Vorss, 1973):
>
>>"On September 27, 1949, Thomas G. Hieronymus received patent number
>>2,482,773 for the "Detection of Emanations From Materials and Measurement
>>of the Volumes Thereof"."
>
>>"This is a milestone as it is the first patent ever issued on a psychotronic
>>device."
>
> Breaking it up into paragraphs at each sentence really made this a
> whole lot more readable, yeah.
>
> Anyway, since this article was posted to sci.skeptic, it seems
> reasonable to ask if you, in fact, ordered the patent, built the
> machine, and did experiments to see if it worked? Or would that be
> against the "accept everything" rule of alt.paranormal?
Well, Warren, are you racist and sexist as well? Not only is your
generalization offensive, it shows your bias. Bias makes poor
scientists and poorer associates.
I don't believe anyone from here has said that sci.skeptic has
a "reject everything" rule. Hopefully your misinformation does not
represent the views of rational skeptics that may post there.
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> /|/-\/-\ The entire world Jerusalem
> |__/__/_/ is a very strange carrot
> |warren@ But the farmer
> / worlds.COM is not worried at all.
However, the farmer _may_ be worried about you....
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ED: ed...@verifone.com
MRT> Quoting from _Pyramid_Power_ by Gil Patrick Flanagan (De Vorss, 1973):
WB> Breaking it up into paragraphs at each sentence really made this a
WB> whole lot more readable, yeah.
WB>
WB> Anyway, since this article was posted to sci.skeptic, it seems
WB> reasonable to ask if you, in fact, ordered the patent, built the
WB> machine, and did experiments to see if it worked? Or would that be
WB> against the "accept everything" rule of alt.paranormal?
ED> Well, Warren, are you racist and sexist as well? Not only is your
ED> generalization offensive, it shows your bias. Bias makes poor
ED> scientists and poorer associates.
Yes, and I'm surprised that you could not derive from my posting that
I also eat small children with ketchup. :-)
Actually, I thought it was a reasonable question to ask if someone has
built the device described to see if it works, particularly in
sci.skeptic. Had it been posted in alt.paranormal alone, I would not
have asked this question - I think that "accept everything" is a good
description of the ground rules there. This is not a criticism of
alt.paranormal so don't take it personally. People from there get all
steamy when someone asks questions so I don't post questions to things
that aren't crossposted to a sci group.
ED> I don't believe anyone from here has said that sci.skeptic has
ED> a "reject everything" rule. Hopefully your misinformation does not
ED> represent the views of rational skeptics that may post there.
Misinformation? I didn't post anything resembling information - I
posted a question. By the way, which sci.skeptics posters do you
think are rational?