“Vril Compendium” by Gerry Vassilatos

"Eleven volumes, thousands of pages of patents, diagrams, articles, and historical reconstruction — Gerry Vassilatos's lifework on what the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation called the most comprehensive treatment of Vril energy ever assembled. Published between 1992 and 1995, the Compendium argues that the heroic age of wireless — Loomis, Stubblefield, Meucci, Dolbear, Tesla — was not really electrical at all, but the empirical exploration of an older, deeper, "thready, living, glowing" force the medieval Europeans called woivre and that Bulwer-Lytton named Vril.

Each volume gathers period patents and contemporary commentary around a phase of that exploration. Vol. 1 (White Ray Conductors) opens with lightning rods, aerial batteries, and the "vrillic detritus" of nineteenth-century atmospheric research. The series then walks through Telegraphy, Linkage, Archeforms, Connection, Telephony, Dendritic Ground Systems, Ground Radio, Aerial Radio, Electric Ray Transmitters, and closes (Vol. 11) on ELF Devices and the military deployment of extreme low frequency. Throughout, Vassilatos reads the inventors' own drawings as the lost archaeology of a science that worked by other rules than the academic curriculum would later admit.

Encyclopedic in scope and largely unavailable outside the original BSRF print runs, the Compendium remains the standard reference for anyone trying to follow what Vassilatos believed the early radio experimenters had actually stumbled into."

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