Posted by D (199.60.107.1) on May 27, 2003 at 14:45:42:
Hi John. Okay here goes.
Since Bessler never publicly or privately (except for one man) showed the inner workings of his wheel to anyone Any attempt to claim his wheel was real is based on heresay, and should be dismissed-for the sake of this question. It seems to me that in fact the whole of it should be dismissed except there is that one piece of real recored history. He did show it to one man, a very powerful man, and this man, his patron, the Landgrave Karl of Hesse said that what he had was real. Thought as a second part of this question did he ever say so in his own writting? I've seen your (and others) posting that he was misquoted. So... Bessler went to trial in 1727. Why didn't this very powerful man come and vindicate him? Did they have their respective falling out during this time? If so, if Karl was so honourable...why still didn't he come to his aid?
Second question, going back to Bessler's fluid themes. Water or fluid sitting in a rotating cylindrically shaped vessal is going to stay pretty much horizontal, unless forced upon by friction from the rotating vessles walls, or a purposefully placed inner paddle. What do you think of the idea of a falling weight used to displace the main body of water to change the center of gravity? This can be done on the wheel as a whole, or in individually cylidrically shaped "weights". Or... from on vessal feeding ointo another by say, the yin yang symbol?
Regards,
D.