leedskalnin flywheel

[0c]

* Just a weird thing about today?s magnets : you can get almost any shape magnet
(ball, bar, ring, plate, custom made, etc.) on the net that made of different materials
(Neodymium-Boron, Alnico, Barium Ferrite, Ceramic, Iron Ferrite, etc.),
but it?s close to impossible to get a large or a strong U-shape
magnet (let alone V-shape one)?for some unknown reason?

These are pretty powerful:
http://www.allmagnetics.com/hardware/horseshoe.htm

[rangerover444]

Thanks,

I have those. 30 lb. lift is ok, not very powerfull, but ok.  And also they are so
small w/ short prongs, which quite limiting the applications you can do with....
My question was why they are not around ?

[Bennyboy]

I second that RangeRover, very strange indeed....

[yaz]

Here's the article about the self-runner.

http://www.keelynet.com/energy/ford.htm

[rangerover444]

Since I read this story before, I thought it may serve as a romantic legend of the 1900?S times.
But it have too many contradictions to be true :

1. The oil companies should held Mr. Henry Ford as their hero.  Why should they threatened
     him and his family. They should reward him big time and contribute to his operation, which
     of course in their best interest.
2. If Mr. Ford was that brave to tell the oil companies, to get off his back, why he did not insert
     his ?magic cow magnets? in the first place, without even dealing with oil companies.
3. Mr. Henry Ford theme, was that each middle class person could afford a car.  So if he could
     build the T-Model on magnetic engines and save his buyers money they will have to spend
     on gasoline in the future, why he built them on gasoline in the first place ?
4. If the Model T could run on magnetic engine - this earth would look different today? (even
     without his magic cow magnets, someone would picked up on that long time ago).
5. The oil companies where not that powerful as today in the beginning of the 1900.  Mr. Ford
     was an empire at that time and could not be pushed away like that (maybe by the government).

I would not proceed further, since there are too many ?holes? in this story. But as I said it?s
a great romantic tale.

And maybe the bottom line is to show J. Keely as a forgotten genius and have nothing to
do with Mr. Ford or magnetic engines?who knows.

Cheers