Initially, the second film that he was going to make to finish the contract was The Philadelphia Experiment, but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project.

( The Philadelphia Experiment ) enjoyed regional success.

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* October 28 – The alleged date of The Philadelphia Experiment, in which the U. S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period.

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The story has captured imaginations of people in conspiracy theory circles, and they repeat elements of the Philadelphia Experiment in other government conspiracy theories.

In the letter, Allende informed Jessup of the " Philadelphia Experiment ", alluding to two poorly sourced contemporary newspaper articles as proof.

Their oblique references to the Philadelphia Experiment suggested prior or superior knowledge ( for example, " Mr B.

In 1979 Charles Berlitz and his co-author ufologist William L. Moore published The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, which purported to be a factual account.

More recently, Simon R. Green included references to " The Philadelphia Experiment " in his book The Spy Who Haunted Me, while Paul Violette's book Secrets of Anti-Gravity Propulsion recounts some mysterious involvement of the physicist Thomas Townsend Brown of the Philadelphia Navy yard.

In 1984, the story was adapted into a time travel film called The Philadelphia Experiment directed by Stewart Raffill.

In 2003, a small team of investigators, including the American Marshall Barnes, the Canadian Fred Houpt, and the German Gerold Schelm, rejected Bielek's story of his participation in " The Philadelphia Experiment ".

The horror / action movie Outpost, in which the Nazi Germans were supposedly conducting similar tests on soldiers, has a reference to the " Philadelphia Experiment ".

The 2008 science fiction 100 Million BC has a clear reference to " The Philadelphia Experiment " or " The Rainbow Project ".

The historian Mike Dash notes that many authors who publicized the " Philadelphia Experiment " story after that of Jessup appeared to have conducted little or no research of their own: through the late 1970s, for example, Allende / Allen was often described as mysterious and difficult to locate.

Berlitz and Moore's account of the story ( The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility ) claimed to include supposedly factual information, such as transcripts of an interview with a scientist involved in the experiment, their work has also been criticized for plagiarising key story elements from the novel Thin Air which was published a year earlier.

The claims of " The Philadelphia Experiment " contradict the known laws of physics.

William Moore claimed in his book on " The Philadelphia Experiment " that Albert Einstein completed, and destroyed, a theory before his death.

Pointing out that the ONR was not established until 1946, it denounces the accounts of " The Philadelphia Experiment " as complete " science fiction ".

Further evidence discounting the Philadelphia Experiment timeline comes from the USS Eldridge ’ s complete World War II action report, including the remarks section of the 1943 deck log, available on microfilm.

Vallée speculates that accounts of the USS Engstrom ’ s degaussing might have been garbled and confabulated in subsequent retellings, and that these accounts may have influenced the story of " The Philadelphia Experiment ".

A Philadelphia distiller is currently breaching the customary prohibition against hard-liquor advertising on TV and radio.

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

This is particularly true in large centers of Jewish population like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Transportation Co. is investigating the part its organization played in reviewing the project.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

* The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

Philadelphia Dental College was founded in 1863 and is the second in the United States.

Drexel University ( DU ) is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

It now is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

He died at Philadelphia on March 22, 1892, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.