Norman Lormer Dean
He was born in 1902 in Boston, MA. He died in 1972 in London, England. He was buried outside of Washington D.C., USA

He was raised on the Plains of the Saskatchewan in Canada.

Dean's family moved to Saskatchewan in the early 1900's taking advantage of the vast Canadian land grants. He helped to construct his family's first prairie home - a "Soddy" made from the dense root packed soil of the plains.

Notable Achievements:

Chief Mortgage Appraiser, Federal Housing Administration, United States Federal Government, Washington D.C. Executive with direct management responsibilities for over 2,000 field agents in 48 states.

Inventor:

Various areas of research, including work with Magnetic Lines of Force, relating to the detection of submarines using magnetic anomalies. Dean was a self taught expert in the area of magnetism and was instrumental in designing electronic devices that could detect the movements of ferrous metal objects through the use of magnetic flux deviations, known as MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection), and also devices used to detect minute movements of stable objects (now used in devices called "accelerometers") these devices are used frequently in navigational devices to feed indications of movement to sophisticated computers that derive positions based on movement from a fixed known position. They are also used to detect movement in devices such as automobile safety systems (i.e. ABS brakes and seat belt safety devices).

The Arcturas Project:

In 1946 -1948 Dean granted a development license to the United States Navy, Office of Naval Research, for the device known as the "Stellar Spatial Inertial Gyroscope" or "Multi-gimbaled Planetary Gyroscope and System". This system was and still is maintained as a generally classified project by the US Government. This device is now well known in the industry, and carries the familiar name of "the dynamically tuned rotor system".

The Arcturas device was introduced to Charles S. Draper, of the MIT instrumentation lab, in 1947, and Draper went on to refine the system for use in the first successful Inertial Navigation Systems, used in aircraft, naval vessels and later in outer space.

The Dean System Drive

The Dean System Drive, was the cumulative effort, dating back to 1946. This system, was the embodiment of Dean's amplification of Newton's Third Law of Motion. In order to validate his discovery, and offer "proof of principal" Dean constructed a device that could in essence, defy gravity. A true inertial propulsion device that was not required to "throw away" mass to move mass. While there were some earlier works by others, Dean was the only one to provide proof of his discovery in the form of a visible, mechanism. Follow this link for more on the Dean System Space Drive.