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Rderland Ch Wew Works by Gerry Vassilatos-’ Volume LH, Number 7, First Quarter 1996 RDERLAND CH WEW WORKS BY GERRY VASSILATOS-’ Author ari&Tesearcher Gerry Vassilatos has spent years scouring Victorian scientifieFärchives in search of the arcane, the anomalous and the amazing. The fruit of these searches is the release of a singulär work of astounding depth and immense power... THE VRIL COMPENDIUM. This project is an ongoing major work which is to be published in successive complete volumes. New Volumes! Compendiums 8 thru 11! Wireless Technology! VRIL COMPENDIUM VIII — VRIL AND GROUND RADIO The early history of wireless Communications begins with the trans-aqueous Systems of Steinheil (1838), Morse, Lindsay, Trowbridge, Highton (1852), Preece, Ratheneau and others. Complete patent collections: the ground signalling Systems of J. Murgas, Tesla, Rogers, and others. Early accidental wireless transmissions of Elihu Thomson and others. Static-free reception for shortwave afficionadi! Forgotten commercial Underground antennas (“Subtennas”, “Ground hogs”), buried coils, buried cables, Underground terminals, oil-filled wells, and the Moon Co. “antennajess” radios will teach you how. Magnified radio transmission through geological formations. Geology dependent radio Systems! Find out how entire VRIL regions are affected by the Operation of small double-ground transmitters. #B0336, 300 pages, ... Catalog special $39.95 VRIL COMPENDIUM IX — VRIL AND AERIAL RADIO Aerials not Antennas. Aerials as conductive terminals. Learn the relationship between electro-impulses and VRIL currents. Capacitative Systems of enormous size and anomalous Operation. Space rays and Ground rays meeting in transmitter components. VLF waveguides, valleys as radio-chutes. Oil-filled tanks as VLF radiatorsJ Electrical' architecture and VRIL articulations. Bent-L, Split-T, Split-Y and other huge Systems. A fabulous array df names! Tesla^^ Fessenden, Lodge, Conrad, Butcher, Alexanderson, Squier, Thompson, Hughes, Fortesque, and many now-unknown designers. #B0337, 400 pages, ... Catalog special $39.95 VRIL COMPENDIUM X — VRIL AND ELECTRIC RAY PROJECTORS Special Light Rays and thready VRIL processions. Anomalous radiant phenomena. Visual and infrared photophones (A.G. Bell, S. Tainter, Stevens, Larigaldie, et.al.), and radiophony (Nikola Tesla, Augusto Righi, Bela Gati, Hammond Hayes, et.al,). Electric Rays, not waves. Rays and VRIL propagation through space! The original, forgotten, and unquoted Tesla paper (1892) describing radiant electric rays. Teslian “light-like rays"! Tesla multi-component detecting system employing Selenium. Photographs and articles. Remarkable raytube power transmitters of Reno and McCullough. Heittinger and the aerial skybeam power transmitters. Each working radio aerial system impossible to comprehend or rationalize from ordinary radio Convention. Black radiance between white electroshocks. McCullough directive detecting tubes (related in Operation to Moray listening detectors), Ulivi’s stränge explosive ray, Grindell-Matthews and his now- secret beam projectors, and many more. #B0338, 400 pages, ... Catalog special $39.95 VRIL COMPENDIUM XI — VRIL AND ELF DEVICES VRIL interactions and electrical irritants in the natural environment. Dangerous VRIL magnifications by electrical impulses. ELF and Project Sanguine articles. Modifying human behavior by ELF brainwave entrainment. HAARP Project patents! Includes large radio power installations of the early RadioAge. Impulse Power Generators of Shoemaker, Reisz, Vreeland, Farnsworth, Chubb, Piggot, and more. Rare period photographs and articles. Huge plasma arc oscillators of Lesh, Fritz Löwenstein (Tesla’s assistant), and Valdemar Poulsen. A complete research thesis! #B0339, 440 pages, ... Catalog special $39.95 Send all Orders to: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation P.O. 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Daye............................................................................................... 36 The Four Elements in Medical Astrology Judith A. Hill........................................................................................................48 In Memorium — A New Assignment for a BSRF Old-Timer Trevor James Constable.........................................................................................54 Music and Natural Resonance Michael Riversong.................................................................................................. 61 COLUMNS page 12 The Piindit Curmudgeon — Verbal Meanderings — Including a Discussion ofthe International Tesia Society’s 1995 “Extraordinary Science” Conference E. D. 0 'Brian........................................................................................................58 DEPARTMENTS Editorial Michael Theroux......................................................................................................2 Clips, Quotes, & Comments.................................................................................3 Reviews Michael Riversong.................................................................................................46 Consulting Editors Production Assistants Editor Trevor James Constable, Michael Theroux Vincent Gaddis, Peter Lindemann, Michael Riversong Jorge Resines, Gerry Vassiiatos Deva Lynn Morris Borderlands First Quarter 1996 1 Borderlands View from the Borderlands 4 Quarterfy Journal of Borderland Research Editorial Borderlands is the quarlerly research publi­ cation ofBorderland Sciences Research Foun­ dation. Contents © 1995 by BSRF, Inc. 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