Johann E. E. Bessler and his clues

[dom444]

I did some more research and i think the person on the left of C was known as a jack or knave like in playing cards. In the above passage the word should be jack fires not shotgun shoots some one didn't understand the word jack and substituted shotgun, as in this interpretation of the verse.

this is the other version:

Should anyone wish to speculate about the truth,
let him ponder the rich pageant of words
which I now cause to shower down upon him!

Greed is an evil root.
An anvil receives many blows.
A driver drives. A runner runs.
A seer sees. The buyer buys.
The rain flows. Snow falls.
The jack fires. The bow twangs;
a large herd of fat, lazy,
plump horses wanders aimlessly.
The flail wants to be with the
thresher, not with the scholar.
Children play among the pillars
with loud heavy clubs.
Acrobats and shadow-boxers
are as swift and nimble as the wind.
The cunning cat slinks quietly along
and snatches juicy mice.
The dog creeps out of his kennel
just as far as his chain will stretch.
He knows how to please by playing
with his toys and knick-knacks.
He wags his tail, creeps through the hoop,
and is rewarded with a pat on the paws
by the stiff fops who watch him.

[AB Hammer]

dom444


Here is a design that I got out of "The Gentleman's Magazine"  1751 Shortly after Bessler's death and it was done by someone only known as Mr AB . Since we are dealing with scissor jacks and you have learned a bit of the dynamics of how they could be altered I figured I would show you another way.  The interesting thing about Mr AB is that his last initial is B just like Bessler and you need to find out what happened to Bessler's Brother.


Alan

[dom444]

that is interesting even has the lettering like Bessler on the wheel, the cables are interesting  because   with one part of this verse that is difficult to work out is to do with the dog on the chain.

found this on this wheel

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zEpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA502&dq=self+moving+wheel&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kN57VLTlJ8mC8gWo1IGADQ&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=self%20moving%20wheel&f=false

page 502 does not work even in 1751 they worked it out  and the F's are actually s's

[lumen]

dom444

I would think that a scissor test for success would be to try to simply generate an unstable device.
Maybe start in the horizontal position and have the weight extend the scissors and cause the extended end to drop.
Once that occurs, the weight could pull on one leg of the scissors and cause it to retract only to repeat the process.
It may be possible to keep the activating weight nearly on the scissor pivot with some additional linkage.


It would only need to travel a small arc. If this scissors device could be made to be unstable and oscillate then that itself would be proof of operation.

[dom444]

i will tell you where i am at right now i need to make some models to test some configurations as time permits which i am hopeful of, i think i am on the right track but wont know for a while, but i can tell you i think he was using springs and i know why and i know how.
and i am convinced even more as i research that my theory is correct, and that his wheel is a lot simpler than many think and i think i understand bessler better now.