BesslerWheel.com

Not much luck googling the answer to this one. Since there are automotive guys on here, maybe one of you will know the answer. Noticed a car with alloy wheels having five spokes. Five spoke wheels could be out of balance during rotation when three spokes are on one side and two on the other. There a...

I smile. The first page.

It was an unfortunate choice in translation.

The reader won't understand this without already knowing what I'm referring to.

Chris

Wheels, such as those on carts and carriages in Bessler's time, had load bearing rims. Bessler wrote that his machine, or wheel, doesn't have an ordinary rim because it wasn't designed to roll on the ground. A twelve foot wheel that could bear rolling stresses would have been many times heavier than...

Steve, This was a post in your thread a while back. "The weights gain force from their own swinging..." should instead read "The weights gain force from their own motion/momentum..." John Collins posted about this enhanced translation in 2004. Unable to quote the original page#, ...

Hidden settings. I imagine others do it so that they can avoid being stalked by people they'd like to avoid, or haven't gotten around to replying. Some went hidden after they threw a fit and said they weren't going to play here any more, but then could still visit without losing face. I want one les...

Traveling with money is a crime.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp

It's my lunch hour so frivolity reigns. The Bush Pilot reference is also attributable to this reporting parody of a man who pilots Bush. It's in german.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 849&q=bush

Chris

Phytoplankton extract carbon from CO2. Salps eat phytoplankton, and unlike others in the food chain, effectively remove carbon from the cycle.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060722/ ... balwarming

Television Program: In the U.S. this next week, PBS stations will be showing a Nova documentary "Newton's Dark Secrets." Check your local listings, or pbs.org for a station in your area. Transcripts may also be available. Newton's laws are pretty broad. Their inverse is that additional inp...

While I haven't built a 3D, continuous track version as Leonardo has drawn, I did build a 2D version several years ago. (Oh, the shame.) It had 6 curved cavities, quite similar to the drawing. Note how the weights tend to line up on the ascending side--like a wall. The shape of the cavities was late...

There are three sets of words used for "you" in German, but I'll keep the list short, and totally omit the "you (plural)" set. When addressing children and pets, or the closest of friends after mutual agreement: you = du (Du for adults) your = dein (Dein for adults) When addressi...

A woman meets a man in a bar. They talk, they connect, and they end up leaving together. They get back to his place, and as he shows her around his apartment, she notices that his bedroom is completely packed with sweet cuddly teddy bears. Hundreds of cute small bears on a shelf all the way along th...

Dusted off and oiled the lathe last year to make some double-ended cones. Made several with varying degrees of pointiness, from 90 through 140 degrees. The intent was to study how the cone would roll uphill, ultimately aiming for a ten degree incline. I hope the following may be of use. On level rai...

Addresses starting with 192.168 are inside your house, like a cable/DSL modem or router, printers, or other computers. My logs showed one address in common, 221.208.208.8, and it gets blocked 20-40 times per day. What I found even more interesting was that the majority of connect attempts originate ...

Here's a link that has a good picture of the original artifact. The artist's rendering as an oil lamp looks pretty spiffy.

http://www.ianlawton.com/am12.htm