Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by David E. Cowlishaw, all rights reserved
THE GYROSCOPIC INERTIAL THRUSTER
A simple, mechanical inertial thruster . . . Finally a device that works! This document collection details the discovery, testing, theory, and current status of this PUBLIC DOMAIN device, that can be duplicated by any skilled craftsperson!
This page updated 11 January 2001
Link to Site File catalog, updated 11 January 2001
Project began on the 4th of May 1997, and continuously updated.
Link to Update 27, (includes Mars Convention report.)
I consider update 27 to be a "breakthrough" point! :)
Use OLDNEWS and NEXT UPDATE links to read previous and succeeding
updates, a LOT of information available there and no where else!
My former web site now available with the first 20 updates, first theory page, personality pages, 1929 water powered car (endothermic steam engine), background page with prior PD inventions, improvements, patent pages, a few more things with all related graphics in one package for ONLY 1.67 megabytes! (2.14 Megs inflated) Links were modified to connect to current site where relevant.
Link to OldSite.zip
The latest publically released variant is the ALFA model shown, which stands for Angular to Linear Force Accelerator! This latest ALFA variant is MUCH more efficient, and has produced some simply elegant engineering math relationships among the parts, forces, and dimensions! Read about it in Update 34.
See the theory explanations with graphics on these pages - GIT plain.htm, and GIT Threory.htm Keep in mind that they are previous works before later information helped us clarify things, and that some links no longer work, as the site has changed (and so has the internet) in the intervening years.
The theory improves as I and a growing number of world-wide researchers add to our understandings of this anomaly, and a cleaned up version of the theory and explanations is forthcoming. The latest update contains one of the clearest reasonings concerning "conservation of momentum" understandings incorporated into the logic statements, to date!
The GIT violates none of the valid "laws" of physics, I've merely found a way to translate or "force rectify" rotational spin accelerations, into an externally demonstrated (linear) acceleration force, by the use of a point mass motion profile that expresses both forms of momentum in each cycle! The supposed barrier between angular and linear momentum has fallen to "yankee ingenuity"!
Since the main process of my method (and I believe the actual source explanation of thrust in the marginal performers of yesteryear), is now public domain, I've had to "get real" with everyday life, and this project is now officially a "hobby" for me, instead of "millions", so the research, being unfunded (and largely unfundable), is going slower than I'd like, but I WILL keep plugging away as long as I can for our future!
In the mean time, visit my most recent update, telling our tale of trying change the world for the better.
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IMPOSSIBLE IS JUST A WORD, IT SHOULDN'T BE A PARADIGM!
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