How to build an An-gravity machine by Peter Parmley BSc. MSc.. During the early 1950’s John Searl reputably became the first person to create an An- gravity machine, or the ‘Inverse Gravity Vehicle’ as he named it. Inially Searl was aempng to produce an electrical generator that could be used within each individual household. His basic design, called ‘The Searl Effect Generator’ (SEG), consisted of a central staonary magnec core, or plate, surrounded by a number of spinning rollers which were also magnesed. Each spinning roller rotated about its own vercal axis and all the rollers rotated around the central plate. The movement was friconless due to the arrangement of the various magnec fields. Searl claimed that aſter inially powering up the generator it would eventually provide free energy as a result of the magnec vortex extracng electrons from the atmosphere. He also claimed that he observed the generator to lose weight during this process, which led him to experiment with the idea of an An-gravity machine. The ‘Inverse Gravity Vehicle (IGV)’ was basically an enlarged SEG consisng of three concentric sets of spinning rollers around the central plate. According to Searl aſter inially supplying power to the IGV aſter a while it levitated and started to glow as it ionised the surrounding air. At this point the external supply was disconnected and thereaſter the device powered itself. Finally it rose quickly upwards into the sky and disappeared from view. Searl claimed that the an-gravity effect was caused by magnec levitaon between the magnec field produced at the centre of the device and the vercal component of the Earth’s magnec field. Furthermore that addional propulsion was provided due to the pressure gradient created by the ionizaon of the air at the periphery of the device. Low pressure is created as the ions are moved by the atmospheric electrostac field; posive ions to earth and negave ions to the higher atmosphere. Unfortunately none of Searl’s machines sll exist, nor is there any photographic or film evidence of their existence. He claims that they were either stolen or destroyed, whilst he was in prison on trumped up charges, by various nefarious organisaons who would suffer from the availability of free energy. However over the last fiſty years or so he has failed to produce any new devices to substanate his theories; stang that he doesn’t possess the funds to do so. However, it isn’t possible to totally disregard Searl’s claims and ideas, as in the mid-1990s Russian researchers Vladimir Roshchin and Serge Godin built and tested a version of Searl’s SEG device which they named the ‘Magnec Energy Converter (MEC)’. Their prototype provided physical evidence, which was well documented and consistent with Searl’s claimed observaons. In parcular they observed, depending on the speed of rotaon, that the MEC began to parally power itself and then eventually totally powered itself whilst also generang excess output power. At this point the whole device actually reduced its weight by 35%. Blue-pink glowing luminescence was observed around the converter's rotor, as was a white-yellow luminescence around the rollers, coincident with the smell of ozone. Their inial prototype is no longer available having reportedly been stolen, but they are currently experimenng with a second version in a Moscow laboratory. Roshchin and Godin’s work clearly seems to validate Searl’s claims, but they themselves offer no theories to explain their observaons; indeed they claim that convenonal physics