1939 Gravity Power - multiply power by 1200%

[hartiberlin]

Thanks Staffman for the help to loacte him.

Well I might have found his death certificate in 1974:


https://www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/Public-Records/Search.aspx


County Recorder's Official Record Search CFN Details

CFN #1974 R 36396, Group ID #1 

First Party (Code):   SKINNER, WILLIAM I S EST OF (D)   Second Party:   WHOM CONCERNED   Subdivision Name:   
   Legal Description:   
Clerk's File No: 1974 R 36396 Rec Date:  02/13/1974 Doc Date: 
Entry Date: 09/26/2007

Rec Book:  8595 \ 915
Second Party: SKINNER, WILLIAM I S EST OF

Clerk's File No: 1974 R 36396
Rec Date: 02/13/1974
Entry Date:  09/26/2007

Rec Book: 8595 \ 915




Too bad no address came with it...
Is there any chance somebody could call such an office and
ask for the address ?

Here are more resources, but as I am from Germany, I don´t know about ancestor research in the
USA...

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/florida-genealogy/

[Artoj]

The movement of the top rod is vital as this is where it is driven, the gear on top of the rods move in a long elliptical path that touch the worm gear at about 15%(more or less) of the time, this constitutes a form of impulse drive, each arm getting an impulse when the worm gear engages, in a sequential fashion. There is enough information to build this device, the rest will be mere details. Regards Arto

[Staffman]

Stefan,


I took a quick look at the genealogy web site you gave. I have found some information...

On the link below, I found where Skinner and family were listed on the 1935 census in Florida.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11762-126047-68?cc=1457856

Skinner's youngest son William Burr Skinner (3 years old at the time, 1935) may still be alive.

A search for Skinner's son, turned up one entry for FL... Same name, same age, same city.... It lists the address and phone number.
http://www.advancedbackgroundchecks.com/d/william-skinner/11780924


Good luck!!!



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[hartiberlin]

Many thanks Staffman.
Can a native English speaking member please call him and ask him about the
machine of his father ? Does it still exit ? And if not, was it sold
or scraped and when ?
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[CuriousChris]

Hi CuriousChris,
The way it works is not the same as flywheel!.. and the effect that it is a pair of dumbbells achieve different than the cumulative force of the flywheel can be. . . 

A flywheel is a store of kinetic energy. all those spinny things in the video store kinetic energy. a pendulum also stores kinetic energy.

That contraption does nothing more than store kinetic energy. so its essentially a clumsy flywheel.

And that's how he can use the lathe. The lathe uses power intermittently. thus draws it out of the "kinetic store" but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was also another power source.