The Bessler Wheel, mystery solved.

[gurangax]

I found that Bessler can be hilarious at times for example this is what he wrote


"If I arrange to have just one cross-bar in the machine, it revolves very slowly, just as if it can hardly turn itself at all, but, on the contrary, when I arrange several bars, pulleys and weights, the machine can revolve much faster, and throw Wagner's calculations clean out of the window!"

[gauschor]

I vote for 1st May as the date to disclose the mysteries of the Bessler wheel 

[fletcher]

One question from my side my friends. As toys are the key to understanding I have to understand the toys first.
http://factumpoetica.org/mt-138-2/


Toys C, D and E are quite obvious.
B is Jacobs Ladder.
What's A??

[Speculation] - 'A' appears to be the front view of 'B's side view of a Jacobs Ladder.

ETA: could also represent a chain link i.e. parallel beams pivoted to a single beam & able to pass in 3 dimensions.

N.B. the number of segments match - in 'B' the pivots are on either side alternating which isn't obvious in the front view - in 'A' all pivots are on one side.

[TinselKoala]

I vote for 1st May as the date to disclose the mysteries of the Bessler wheel 

A month late, innit?

[Newton II]

Please reread my post.  I explained the effects of any deformation of the pulley/bearings.  Energy goes into deflecting / deforming, and it comes out of the GPE.

Deforming, deflection happens because of action but not reaction.  When pulley/bearings deform,  it implies that they  are not strong enough to provide reaction in the opposite direction. 

The term 'reaction'  has sofar not been understood clearly by physicists.  May be Newton has to take birth again to explain it.