The Gravity Research Foundation, established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson

Roger Babson

Roger Ward Babson , remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century...

 (founder of Babson College

Babson College

Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...

), was an organization designed to find ways to implement gravitational shielding. It closed in the late 1960s, although it has maintained an annual contest rewarding essays by scientific researchers on gravity-related topics.
Rauscher indicated Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

 had suggested the creation of the Gravity Research Foundation to Babson.