Philadelphia Experiment
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The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, P
USS Eldridge (DE-173), c. 1944
Degaussing
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Degaussing, or deperming, is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Du
Philadelphia Experiment
…of routine research during World War II at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. One theory is that "the foundation for the apocryphal stories arose from degaussing experiments which have the effect of making a ship undetectable or 'invisible' to magnetic mines." Another possible origin of the stories about levitation…
USS Jimmy Carter in the magnetic silencing facility at Naval Base Kitsap for her first deperming treatment
RMS Queen Mary arriving in New York Harbor, 20 June 1945, with thousands of U.S. soldiers – note the prominent degaussing coil running around the hull
Control panel of the MES-device ("Magnetischer Eigenschutz" German: magnetic self-protection) in a German Type 205 submarine
Close-wrap deperming of the Ivan Gren-class landing ship Ivan Gren, 2016. The cables are floated into position before wrapping around the vessel.