As I wrote previously, I’m
temporarily recycling a previous post about the Legend of Bessler’s
wheel, because I need to concentrate on finishing my own attempted
reconstruction of his machine.
As you can see from my previous post, there is a lot going on in my life but there is always the odd moment when I could work on the wheel.
At my age I find time seems to be accelerating and weeks shoot past and I seem to have accomplished very little. I am determined to finish it now so I can prove to myself, at least, that I am right and that there are sufficient clues from Bessler to permit anyone to build his wheel. Success would mean that the design I’m working on would match his, which I know many people doubt is possible. Obviously I will post the information here first, if it works - or even if it doesn’t.
Please feel free to comment if you wish and I will try to check back daily.
As you can see from my previous post, there is a lot going on in my life but there is always the odd moment when I could work on the wheel.
At my age I find time seems to be accelerating and weeks shoot past and I seem to have accomplished very little. I am determined to finish it now so I can prove to myself, at least, that I am right and that there are sufficient clues from Bessler to permit anyone to build his wheel. Success would mean that the design I’m working on would match his, which I know many people doubt is possible. Obviously I will post the information here first, if it works - or even if it doesn’t.
Please feel free to comment if you wish and I will try to check back daily.
So here it is again, the Legend of Bessler's wheel.
On 6th June, 1712, in Germany, Johann Bessler (also known by his
pseudonym, Orffyreus) announced that after many years of failure, he had
succeeded in designing and building a perpetual motion machine. For
more than fourteen years he exhibited his machine and allowed people to
thoroughly examine it. Following advice from the famous scientist,
Gottfried Leibniz, he devised a number of demonstrations and tests
designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the
secret of its design.
After more than thirty years he died in poverty. He had asked for a
huge sum of money for the secret, £20,000 which was an amount only
affordable by kings and princes, and although many were interested, none
were prepared to agree to the terms of the deal. Bessler required that
he be given the money and the buyer take the machine without verifying
that it worked. Those who sought to purchase the wheel, for that was
the form the machine took, insisted that they see the secret mechanism
before they parted with the money. Bessler feared that once the design
was known the buyers could simply walk away knowing how to build his
machine and he would get nothing for his trouble.
This problem was anticipated by Bessler and he took extraordinary
measures to ensure that his secret was safe, but he encoded all the
information needed to reconstruct the machine in a small number of books
that he published. It is well-known that he was prepared to die without
selling the secret and that he believed that post humus acknowledgement
was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
I became curious about the legend of Bessler’s Wheel, while still in my
teens, and have spent most of my life researching the life of Johann
Bessler (I’m now 74). I obtained copies of all his books and had them
translated into English and self-published them, in the hope that either
myself or someone else might solve the secret and present it to the
world in this time of pollution, global warming and increasingly limited
energy resources.
It has recently become clear that Bessler had a huge knowledge of the
history of codes and adopted several completely different ones to
disguise information within his publications. I have made considerable
advances in deciphering one of his codes; the simplest one, and I am
confident that I have the complete design. Due to unfortunate family
circumstances I am currently unable to complete the build I have
undertaken but shall return to it as soon as possible and I sincerely
believe that 2019 will see the reconstruction of Bessler’s wheel.
Johann Bessler published three books, and digital copies of these with
English translations may be obtained from the links to the right of this
blog. In addition there is a copy of his unpublished document
containing some 141 drawings - and my own account of Bessler’s life is
also available from the links. It is called "Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" Bessler published three books; "Grundlicher Bericht", "Apologia Poetica" and "Das Triumphirende..."
I have also published Bessler's collection of 141 drawings and I have called it Maschinen Tractate, but it was originally found in the form of a number drawings of perpetual motion designs. Many of these have handwritten notes attached and I have published the best English translation of them that I was able to get. Bessler never published these drawings but clearly intended to do so at some point.
For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit one of my web sites at www.theorffyreuscode.com
One last thing. Perpetual Motion machines have been utterly proscribed
and Johann Bessler’s claims ridiculed - however, it seems that more than
a handful of scientists have now come to the conclusion that it might
theoretically be possible to design a mechanical system which is
continuously out-of-balance and therefore will turn continuously using
the repeated fall of weights for energy. Gravity but not directly.
These open-minded people remain tight lipped for now, awaiting proof of
their hypothesis.
JC