Posted by David (199.60.107.1) on April 24, 2003 at 11:15:21:
Sorry John but I personally have to feverishly disagree with you.
First;
Having made an appointment with the inventor, we approached the machine and noticed that it was secured by a cord to the rim of the wheel. Upon the cord being released, the machine began to rotate with great force and noise, maintaining its speed without increasing or decreasing it for some considerable time. To stop the wheel and retie the cords required tremendous effort. The inventor is asking for one hundred thousand Thalers to reveal the mechanism or sell the machine.' - Letter from Teuber to Leibniz, 19th January, 1714
THIS ONLY points towards a hoidden source of stored power. In later models he learned how to trigger the stored power. How else do you explain that one,it was ready to go, and 2, he claims the power came from the swinging of weights?!!! 3, he stated the variations of the wheel were of little consequence. Explain how or why,it was ready to go John! Were the weights always swinging internally? Come on.
>When I turned it but gently, it always stood still as soon as I took my hand away. But when I gave it any tolerable degree of velocity, I was always obliged to stop it again by force; for when I let it go, it acquired in two or three turns its greatest velocity, after which it revolved at twenty-five or twenty-six times a minute. This motion was preserved some time ago for two months, in an apartment of the castle; the door and windows of which were locked and sealed, so that there was no possibility of fraud. At the expiration of that time, His Serene Highness ordered the apartment to be opened, and the machine stopped, lest, as it was only a model, the parts might suffer by so much testing. The Landgrave being, himself, present during my examination of this machine, I took the liberty to ask him, as he had seen the inside of it, whether, after being in motion for a certain time, some alteration was made in the component parts; or whether one of these parts might be suspected of concealing some fraud; on which His Serene Highness assured me to the contrary, and that the machine was very simple...' - letter from Willem Jacob 'sGravesande to Sir Isaac Newton, 1721.
This certainly does not state a slight push with two fingers, rather a slight push did nothing.
Now John, I hopew you can agree to disagree. I am trying to find the quote where someone stated they saw the interior but only saw compartements at the outside edge of the wheel. Do you know where this quote is?