Posted by David (199.60.107.1) on March 20, 2003 at 16:20:44:
Sorry for the daring title. I've been asked by a few people ( maybe it was just grim) how Bessler could have faked his wheel. I didn't really give the mechanics of it a lot of thought, but John Collins actually gave me an answer. Though, of course I am not saying it is the answer, but it is an answer. I'll site 3 versions of it where one will show how to fake it. 2 how it is possible it actually gave back some energy, and three how perhaps it was possible it was a free energy type of machine. The following also makes some sense of other details I don't quite understand as how one wheel needed to be tied down around the axel and then released where the others needed first a push. These two types seem completely opposite, but maybe they were the same and one just used "door locks" John Collins wrote the following,
>Gottfried
, one of the most celebrated scientists of the time (and undoubtedly comparable to Newton although his work extended over his whole life rather than the few years as a young man, attributable to Newton)and he took up his cause. It is interesting to see the progress of Liebniz' conviction that Bessler's machine was genuine. Those who have read my book will recall that the story of Leibniz, was demonstrated through the numerous letters he wrote to other witnesses and examiners. He was at first sceptical but eventually agreed that the machine was a gravity wheel but not true perpetual motion.
What I believe Leibniz meant by this was there were inventiones being made, that were known, that made us of natural occuring energetic forces like atmospheric expansion and contraction. If it were just a wheel that ran on just gravity, it would have been, and still would be regarded as true perpetual motion. So, John mentions Bessler had knowledge of hydralics,
1. To fake a wheel. Imagine inside the wheel there was a highly compressed cylinder perhaps of an air water mixture (his lower cylinder?) extending outwards from the center of this cylinder to the rim are pistons, each ending to a movable weight (one that moves by variant pressure from the cylinder. Using a system of levers and locks this wheel could be made to revolve by having one weight extentded longer on one side than its opposite ( where they dont share the same center of gravity) and gravity of course would give the wheel a quarter turn.(The jack fires. The bow twangs;)one it reaches bottom a small amount of pressure from the cylinder would be released to cause the two weights to move to achieve balance, and would also cause the next set of weights to move to achieve imbalance. Keep in mind that although it takes energy to move the bottom and top weights, it takes next to nothing to move weight side to side. This being said this example is the most simple of a hydralic system.
2. Perhaps Bessler found an optimum arrangement of pistons/and weights that allowed the movement of the wheel to give back energy to the main cylinder. Not quite free energy but a very long lasting "wound up device" Perhaps a "swastika" or other geometric arrangement.
3. He found an optimum arrangement where all energy was given back plus more. Perhaps by using the heat of friction on the cylinder and expanding gasses. At any rate, a free energy machine, but in all versions NOT JUST a wheel that ran on gravity. Hence fuffilling Leibniz's idea.
What do you think?
Dav