Grandview Heights, OH: Birthplace of STDTS™
Warp Drive
Grandview Heights Director of Business Development, Patrick Bowman shakes hands with STDTS™ warp drive inventor Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng for inventing it in his city.
Above, the building in Grandview Heights, OH where STDTS™ was invented in 2000, in a basement protosuite laboratory built to explore the unknown extremes of exotic electromagnetic fields.
The Wright Brothers had the bicycle shop in Dayton , OH.
Marshall Barnes had the Northrop Building in Grandview Heights, OH.
In 1999, research and development engineer Marshall Barmes began to turn a basement office into a laboratory to explore the extremes of what he called exotic electromagnetic fields. He ignored standard theories because he knew that they led no where and Marshall was determined to go where few if any researchers had bothered to go.
"The lab was designed for pure research, to discover new effects and new phenomena and then develop them for commercial exploitation. I had a variety of equipment that was either modified or being used unconventionally and the results were always amazing".
Marshall created a panorama of special effects and strange phenomena centered around the exotic use of analog TV, sometimes TVs from the 60s and 50s. One of the most dramatic was when he succeeded in creating a rotating electromagnetic field that defeated the broadband filtering of the TVs and radios allowing everything from telephone calls and police helicopter chatter to come through. One time, he was able to receive a clear TV signal from as far away as Dayton, OH! Some of his research would later lead to the creation of his video art engine, the Programable Television Synthesizer™ (PTV.synth). In the later spring of 2000, Marshall began the research that would become STDTS(TM).
"I was well aware of many anecdotal stories about weird effects from certain kinds of magnetic and electromagnetic fields. These effects were rumoured to be able to effect time. I had to know for myself, so I decided to settle on research in the electromagnetic area."
Marshall knew enough to separate crazy, pseudoscience theories from truly worthwhile fields of investigation, which is why his research was so successful in so many different areas.
Above: Photo of analog TV outfitted with 2 ball magnets wrapped inside of a portion of 75ft of bare braided, copper antenna wire to a brass double bow tie antenna connected to an exotic array of equipment, out of the frame. Below: Two shots of opposite walls of the lab, lined with exotic equipment.
To The Right: Another product from ART Laboratories - The interactive art installation, Training Session. Shown here at an art exhibit, the user uses 3D HyperSpeks™ to find patterns in live TV static that resemble things like black holes, worm holes and other objects and then writes down their observations. Hyperdimensional music, as well as instructions, were played through the headphones.
The research in the Dublin Rd. basement resulted in discoveries in the field of optics, electromagnetic field theory, radio waves, mind/machine interfacing and sound reproduction which led to such developments and inventions as hyperdimensional music, the Programable Television Synthesizer™, Lewiston Audio Wall™, hyperdimensional music, HyperSpeks™, and more, aside from his STDTS™ technology.
"ART Laboratories, as I called it then, was really just an amazing thing, really", Marshall says, "because I had learned how to build video studios from my time working out of ACTV, the cable access facility, and got to the point that I could run it by myself. ART Labs was my opportunity to take everything I had learned about equipment, facilities, physics and technology and manifest it at will with the lab as my sort of palette."
Marshall found the Grandview location perfect as it was on a straight shot downtown, to 70 West as well as in the comfortable and friendly bedroom community that is Granview Heights which is a destination location for its restaurants and night life.