THOMAS ALLEN GRAVES

My technology designs & development work includes,
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• electric powered internal combustion
• ​Inverters, converters, regulators, and transformers
• ​high-voltage machines
• hydrogen fueled engine operating systems & controls
• ​hydrogen-steam engines
• ​piston supercharging​
• ​supercharged OHV two-stroke reciprocating engines
• ​high powered mechanical resonators
• ​large capacity rotary piston motors
• ​pumps, turbomachinery, fluid power & transmission systems
• rocket engines
• power jets
• ​inertial motion systems & controls
• ​firearms and ammunition
• heat exchangers, radiators, boilers
  
• propulsion systems
• ​metrology & navigation instrumentation
• ​marine craft technology​

I move between the rains and live in midst of ruins I've always known. Eagleshead Island is my home.

​Experience Timeline
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1972-1975
Preliminary research and experimentation with various aspects of fluid, and electromagnetic machine science including the design, and development of elementary engines / motors, electromagnetic machines, and hydraulic machines; Study of hydrogen engine systems; Study of thermodynamic engine science, and etcetera. 
 
1975 – 1977
Development of dedicated laboratory tooling and facility (Sand Springs & Eagleshead Island); Design and development of multiple devices and machines including positive displacement fluid jet pumps wherein a fluid is accelerated via reciprocating engine exhaust; Design and development of multiple solid fuel, and liquid fueled constant volume jet pumps; Author of technical writings covering hydraulic and pneumatic systems; Experimentation with induced atmospheric lighting capture via trained conductors positioned with solid fueled rockets; Experimentation with heavy construction equipment, plumbing, and mechanical process piping and fluid machinery; Study of bio-mechanical structures and etcetera.
 
1977 – 1985
Design, development and experimentation with magnetic piston motors, rotary magnetic motors, electric motors, and generators, solid and liquid fueled rocket engines, tooling, test equipment, radio transmitter & signal amplifiers; receivers, internal combustion engines; Experimentation with structural construction methods, and etcetera.
 
1985 – 1990
Design, development and experimentation with electric and magnetic machinery; Experience with electrical inverters / converters / transformers and switchgear; Continued design, development, and experimentation with reciprocating ICE, and electrical / magnetic motor, and motor control systems; Experimentation with large scale fluid / gas oscillators, and etcetera.
 
1990 – 2000
Design, development and experimentation with hydrogen based systems including
electrolyzers, and hydrogen based reciprocating ICE’s, including liquid and solid piston sealed volume electric powered ICE (EPIC), 2-stroke, and mono-stroke ICE’s; Design, development of high voltage machines including rotary electrical inverters / converters, generators, transformers and transmission systems, and high-voltage resonators / capacitors / resistors / inductors; Design, development of piston supercharging, and ICE operating with expansion, and amplification mechanisms, contraction of combustion products; Design, development of high-voltage solid state electrical machinery including wireless transmitter / receiver, and converter systems; Author of multiple technical writings; Design, development, and experimentation with direct energy transmission, and converter systems. Design, Development, and experimentation with AC/DC thermo-electric converters including transformers, and switchgear machinery; Design, development, and experimentation with mechanical, and electrical fault detectors / indicators / instruments, and etcetera.  
 
2000 – 2010
Design, development, and experimentation with hydrogen fueled internal combustion engines; Experimentation with piston supercharging, hydrogen fuel systems, hydrogen ICE controls, and etcetera; Design, development, and experimentation with advanced thermodynamic engine operating systems; Author of multiple technical writings related to advanced engine science and systems, including “The Architecture of Energy Consumption”, “Detoxxium”, and etcetera.
 
2010 – 2019
Design, development, and experimentation with inertial systems, including pendulum, gyro, and linear mass acceleration machinery; Experimentation with large scale, high-powered mechanical oscillators and resonators; Experimentation with inertial drive and positioning systems; Design, development, and experimentation with large scale rotary piston ICE / steam motors; Experimentation with turbo-machinery (pure reaction and impulse) including steam and gas turbines; Design, development, and experimentation with firearms, munitions, and fire control systems; Design, development of expansion rocket nozzle technologies including sealed volume rocketry, condensing steam turbines, and etcetera; Author of multiple technical writings in various fields including several US utility patents in the field of advanced firearm technologies, rocket engines, and etcetera.
 
2019-2024
Design and development of rocket engines, and rocket engine controls, rocketry process equipment; Continued authorship of technical writings; Design and development of high speed marine craft systems; Design and development of pure reaction, and impulse marine drives; Design and development of sailboats, and sailboat auxiliary systems... 

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