Age when you first heard of Bessler's wheel?

[docfeelsgood]

Boiler Bill ;

around here i am like the lone gringo at a rap concert !!!

with Phoenix the #1 kidnap-ransom capitol of the world now and the drug cartels fighting for turf and routes , piling up headless corpses like cordwood .
think i'll stay prepared . the wild west is still wild . but a little excitement can put some lead in your pencil !! 8>])

[LustInBlack]

I was errr, 23 I guess, and at the time, I was into Hydrogen more than anything and I thought that those gravity wheels were pretty stupid, until I came here and saw Bessler's MT...

[tomfleet]

41. I came across a tantalizing mention of it in Jacques Barzun's book Dawn to Decadence, a history of Western culture since the Renaissance. (Incidentally, Barzun, a respected historian, referred to it as an unsolved mystery, not any sort of sham--evidently he too rejected the maid's story as implausible.)

Oh, I forgot, I first saw a diagram of an overbalancing wheel (without any mention of Bessler) when I was 11, in one of those old Time-Life science series books. Inspired, I promptly thought up a totally different perpetual motion machine, a sort of seesaw with springs under each end and a big weight rolling from end to end; it was certain to work ;)

[agor95]

Do any new members want to add to the posts on this subject?

Regards

[sequeen]

38, 20years have passed. Too much time has gone, I am old, children grown-up, still have no money.

[Leafy]

27, 15 years counting. I guessed we’re trapped. Imagine the physicists who try to unify gravity with other forces. They’re in the same boat if not worse.

The reason I believe it’s possible because I see reality as an illusion. Imagine a hypnotist tell you to count your fingers but skip a number. You count to 11 but you know it’s supposed to be 10. Law of nature could be a grand hypnotic state. We’re all putting each other under an illusion. Reality is a collective illusion.

[daanopperman]

43
spent many hours of my life here , all good , thanks to all of you , will spend some more , nice to see all , but some is missing , maybe just some days .

[neuberlintourist1]

41. I came across a tantalizing mention of it in Jacques Barzun's book Dawn to Decadence, a history of Western culture since the Renaissance. (Incidentally, Barzun, a respected historian, referred to it as an unsolved mystery, not any sort of sham--evidently he too rejected the maid's story as implausible.)

Oh, I forgot, I first saw a diagram of an overbalancing wheel (without any mention of Bessler) when I was 11, in one of those old Time-Life science series books. Inspired, I promptly thought up a totally different perpetual motion machine, a sort of seesaw with springs under each end and a big weight rolling from end to end; it was certain to work ;)

Do you still remember what magazine that was exactly?