How this was done in 1821.....

[steve_whiss]

Demos - How Faraday handled this situation

Nearly 200 years ago, guys playing with magnets and electricity were making great breakthroughs, discovering new stuff, coming up with 1sts and overturning established ideas.

Big names here - Ampere, Oersted, Faraday plus more on the sides.

How did they handle these sort of situations ?Prove it !? situations?


Ampere was the formal ?Let's build it nice and proper, in a woodgrain display case? sort of guy. Really, he commissioned lab techs to build stuff.


Faraday was the ?Dunno about the maths, let's see what works - give me that glue gun - let's do it!? guy (he had some very nice ideas too...)

Ring any bells?


Anyhow, Faraday did got something to work. This was a true giant 1st.

Apart from muscles and crude steam engines, this was the FIRST demonstration of deliverable mechanical power. This was the seed from which electric motors grew.

How did Faraday get people to know?

All in the (readable and interesting book) ?Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein? by Olivier Darrigol, Oxford University Press.

Read page 1 (this mostly background) then bottom page 2 then a pic of the ?give-away? on page 3.

Just look how simple he made the model.

Nice!

[steve_whiss]

These of course all powered.

Notice that to save time, Faraday floated rotational experiments. That saved time playing with bearings...

[Omnibus]

@steve_whiss,

The ?Faraday? part of the job has already been done as far as overunity goes?production of excess energy and violation of CoE has been proven beyond doubt in SMOT. Therefore, there?s nothing this book can add in this respect. Let alone the fact that mentioning Einstein is most unfortunate, especially if his theory of relativity is had in mind as a great ?discovery?. The truth is that the theory of relativity is just a compilation of trivial errors and nonsense. A ?theory?, such as Einstein?s STR, wrought with internal inconsistencies can by no means be considered a ?discovery?, let alone ?great?.

As for the engineering part beyond ?Faraday?, it is more daunting than building an externally powered electric motor.

[steve_whiss]

... I hoped to contrast how Faraday presented his works

vs

how Steorn have !

Mailing out little working models was a nice idea.

[Omnibus]

Don't forget that much more is at stake here than in Faraday's case. This is a revolution greater than the industrial revolution caused by the steam engine and the discoveries of the likes of Faraday.