I reach into my filing cabinet and take out the Engine plans.
Yes, those are the 3-electrode vacuum-globes, high-power models, since this is an older design, not yet using modulators of deoxidized Black Silica. Many aluminium lines in flex-glass. Those things there are thin carbon-impeancers, plus their required rotary-blade. Those coils there, they shift potentials using resonance, with the high-values embedded in solid quartz. But what is that thing? It’s a common, mirror-ended parametric amplifier, for invisible light signals in long flexible glass whiskers. We also use those for metal-cutting with black light, but they don’t make good weapons, except for blinding the Enemy lacking proper goggles. This here is the gravity-wave emitter stack, with the shielded radiant mineral on one end. A little version, only for attitude control, capable of lofting a couple of tons of mass. They work via gamma-rays emitted from the mineral source, passing through a long stack of metal membranes suspended in vacuum, alternating layers of beryllium and some rare metal I don’t recall, one end connected to that quartz-embeded high-potential resonator coil. Don’t be caught lacking a supply of the radiant mineral pellets, since in this application they become exhausted after a thousand-day, because of reverse-beam of the Positives, causing rapid transmutal degradation. Nobody yet licked that particular problem. The quartz disk alongside it is the radiant life-gauge, becoming visibly darkened when replacement-time is near.
Now you return to late-40s America! But you don’t bother to take out any patents. It’s all fantasy, of course. (It would be very bad for your mental health, if you built and tested any of these devices, and found that, after all, THEY WERE REAL.)
