Floyd Odlum
Also known as Floyd B. Odlum
Atlas Corporation financier whose company Guidance Technology, Inc. took on Thomas Townsend Brown's electrokinetic work in 1967–70.
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Floyd Odlum
Floyd B. Odlum was the financier behind the Atlas Corporation. After retiring from Atlas he bought Summers Gyroscope and renamed it Guidance Technology, Inc. [S1]. His papers at the Eisenhower Presidential Library include a "Brown & GTI" folder series for 1967–70 on Thomas Townsend Brown's electrokinetic apparatus and plasma loudspeaker [S1]. Paul Schatzkin writes that the 1967 deal placing Brown at GTI "included negotiations with the same 'Nassau' interests" (the Nassau Group) [S2]. Nothing in the finding aid names them.
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[S1] "Odlum, Floyd B.: Papers, 1892-1976" — Eisenhower Presidential Library finding aid URL: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/finding-aids/pdf/odlum-floyd-papers.pdf Accessed: 2026-09-27 Claim: Summers Gyroscope renamed GTI; "Brown & GTI" folders 1967–70 [S2] "Defying Gravity, Ch. 77" — Paul Schatzkin (Wayback 11 Apr 2008) URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20080411212728/http://www.ttbrown.com/defying_gravity/77_strikeamatch.html Accessed: 2026-09-27 Claim: GTI negotiations "with the same 'Nassau' interests"
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