her out as a blimp or worse, have her standing on a street corner with a sign that reads "$ 4.95, Crabs free!"
Ok, now you have a pendulum and the two charts. So far so good. The next thing that you need is going to be the basis for the machines in this book--an amplifying pattern.
There are two basic types of amplifying pattern, the circle pattern, otherwise known as the Magnetron, and the pyramid square. These take a bit of explaining, so here we go.
The Magnetron started off as a normal, electronic device, the cavity magnetron, which was nothing more than solid copper cylinder with holes and vanes drilled into it. When hooked to some sort of amplifier system this device created microwaves at a certain band which was really useful for aircraft radar and it is still used in various forms. Secretly developed by the British in WW2 for their fighters, it did not stay secret long because the copper cylinder was virtually indestructible and all it took was for the clever Germans to find one in a crash site and figure out what to do with it.
Unfortunately the French got their hands on it as well and you know the French! It was not long before a couple of French radisthesiests got really drunk on cheap wine and decided that it would be fun to see what the pattern of the holes and vanes would do to a pendulum. But even they were surprised when the pendulum jumped out of their hands! After that, they started experimenting and discovered that there was some mysterious( and it still is!) force in the center of the pattern that amplified the psychic energy of anything that was placed in it.
In the 1970s, Christopher Hills got his hands on it and went to work to try to figure out how to make it more powerful. As he was operating under the assumption that all this psychic stuff related to the earth ' s magnetic field, he added magnets in alternating polarities under the outer circles and came up with this. It was a simple, elegant design and it worked very well as a psionic transmitter.