Posted by David (199.60.107.1) on March 23, 2003 at 16:09:41:
Does someone have the pics that apply to this sentence?
> While in motion it is supported by two almost one-inch-thick tapered steel pegs, whose two bearings (or sockets) with two curves around the axle provide the rotational motion of the whole vertically suspended wheel through application of pendula, which can be somewhat modified, as the attached figures at the end of this treatise clearly show.
Also I've noted that some people have misread Bessler and have thought that the weights possibly hand on cords. I think it is this sentence that they have read wrong...
> The upper weight is not attached to an external mechanism, nor does it rely on external moving bodies by means of whose weight revolutions continue as long as the cords or chains on which they hang permit.
If you compare this with other writtings of Bessler you'll see what he was saying was clocks and other machinery;
>Other automatic machines, such as clockwork, springs, and hoisting weights, necessarily require an external restoring force.
use hanging weights to make the inner works revolve. His machine, was the complete opposite,it recieved it's rotating force directly from the weights themselves. The weights themselves rotated.
But this is all he mentions, and doesn't say how they weights recieved their energy to shift, or change centers of gravity. His secret of course.
>As long as it remains outside the center of gravity, this upper weight incessantly exercises universal motion from which the essential constituent parts of the machine receive power and push.
The mechanical wheel not only bears the name of the long sought perpetual motion machine; it deserves to be named for such motion. It uses one of the best known implements for mechanical power, namely, a true circular wheel which rotates about its central axis.