The Bessler Wheel, mystery solved.

[gurangax]

the organ musical instrument have many levers and pulleys built in it.

[fletcher]

What about the testimony of Bessler's maid?

TK .. Bessler's maid had recently been fired by Bessler for theft IIRC - so it's plausible that she was either in vindictive mind or in a frame of mind to be be persuaded to give false testimony, perhaps for financial gain - to put it in context, at that time there were three particular gentlemen quite peeved with Bessler & very vocal publicly about how he must be a fraud - reputations were literally at stake - btw, the maid also said the Bessler's brother Gottfried & Bessler himself were squirreled away taking turns turning the crank from adjoining rooms - Gottfried never admitted to any such thing in any trial proceedings, & of course Bessler denied it outright - there was no other corroberating evidence to the maids claim that I'm aware of.

In case you missed it, Bessler's first public demonstration was outside in a town square, IINM, which makes it hard to turn the device from a crank & handle thru the support & pinions etc, from a distance, without being seen - secondly in subsequent tests his wheels were closely examined & no sign of fraud was detected, including shafts & gears required to be hidden in the supports etc.

Something that is rarely mentioned here in discussions of Bessler is that he was a journeyman clockmaker before he found easier means of making his living.

Bessler was a jack of many trades - accomplished in many skills including doctoring for hire - he also was a competent carpenter & able blacksmith amongst other things, as well as well traveled & learned, & musical.

The ONLY reference I have be able to find to his watch/clock making skills is a self passage in DT I think where he talks of sailing to England - on the voyage, to make some money, he makes two pocket watches for fellow passengers - he is quite dismissive about it taking only a couple of lines - clearly, he must have had access to materials & tools to make these watches, & he must have known the math etc - if it were something he could pick up & do on a whim then he was indeed a man of many skills & education - I have no doubt those skills, along with organ making came in use for making wheels, & he says so about the organ making skills.

[gurangax]

Why does it works? For a wheel to rotate by itself, the center of gravity for all the weights combined must be above the center or above the axle of the wheel. In other words, the weights must always be heavier at the top side. This is exactly how the wheel works, and the 2 stage leverage system is what made it to happen.

[Grimer]

The RAR device could well be a two lever device...

http://www.rarenergia.com.br/


In which case the sooner you give your insights full publicity the better....
else it will just be seen as a variant of RAR. Nobody remembers who
comes second. 

[CANGAS]

The RAR device could well be a two lever device...

http://www.rarenergia.com.br/


In which case the sooner you give your insights full publicity the better....
else it will just be seen as a variant of RAR. Nobody remembers who
comes second. 

Grimer....Thanks for your helpful intentions. The link is written in Portuguese(?) that falls sadly incomprehensibly upon my solely English speaking ears and consists of seemingly 100s of large pictures that will take 1.98 thousand hours to open on my superslow computer rig.

I never bothered to learn exactly what a Two Lever Device is, to my lasting humiliation and shame. I believe I have One Lever Device pretty much figured out. Could you be generous and explain simply and briefly what a Two Lever Device is?

In advance, thank you very much.


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