A comment on this blog inspired me to follow his suggestion that we should call this day, 6th June, “Bessler Day”.
On the sixth day of June 2023 it was 311 years since the famous inventor, Johann Bessler, also known by his strange pseudonym, Orffyreus, first set up his Perpetual Motion machine in the small village of Gera, in Germany, in order to exhibit his amazing machine. He desired to sell his machine and sought the patronage of a wealthy and respected member of the nobility.
He eventually accepted the offer of a place to exhibit his machine plus a position as Commercial Councillor at the castle of Karl, the Landgrave of Hesse. Karl was a highly respected and knowledgable patron of scientific experimentation. He had spent several years prior to Bessler’s arrival funding the experiments of Denis Papin.
Bessler attracted a huge amount of interest but failed to sell his machine due to his awkward terms of sale - there was distrust on both sides, despite Karl’s assurance that he had been able to inspect the inner workings of them machine, and stated that it was genuine. The inventor died without having sold his device when he fell from a windmill he was building. Like many if his ideas it was designed to take advantage of the wind from what ever direction it came.
He never withdrew his claim to have invented a perpetual motion machine and continued to devise new uses for it, such as draining water from mines, a continuously playing carillon, a submarine, fountains for pleasure gardens etc.
The evidence that his machine was genuine is convincing. He left a number of clues, hints and illustrations which contain enough evidence to work out how his machine worked. It’s all there before our eyes and has been for more than three hundred years.
At the moment I expect less that 99.999 per cent of planet earth’s population have ever heard of him, but I confidently anticipate that that figure will drop dramatically upon release of the solution to his machine to the world at large. His name will become famous, his story will appear in countless languages and people from all around the world will discover the benefits of free, clean electricity. People will want to celebrate Johann Bessler’s work on Bessler Day for discovering and building the world’s first free, clean, energy continuously rotating electricity generator - hopefully a way of mitigating the effects of climate change.
JC
...provided the machine actually works. A minor detail yes, but important nonetheless.
ReplyDeletewtf happened to this blog? three months ago it was racking up to 100 comments per blog. Now it's next to nothing! where the hell is everyone? it's now more boring here than over on bwf and that ain't easy to do! wtf happened?
ReplyDeleteI've totally given up on there being a solution. I don't trust the historical record and after wasting years of my life on this, I hang around to scoff.
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DeleteYou're right, it's cr*p now. I'm sure a lot think it is all due to JC's last hissy fit shutdown at the end of last March. But, we've all seen that bizarre act of his several times before. He starts by insulting those that don't agree with his pentagon stuff, deletes their comments hoping no one else notices which, of course, they do, and then blocks anonymous comments for a week or so until his childish fit passes. Things then bounce back to normal here in another week or so after that. That didn't happen this time though. It looks like he drove off that small handful of regulars here who reliably comment every blog and then trigger others to comment so that we can reach a hundred or more comments per blog to read and think about. While JC was busy labeling their comments as spam so they would be deleted, they must have been busy labeling this blog as spam and removing the links to it from of their bookmark bars.
But, while the above is an easy assumption to make, I think there is something FAR more malevolent at work here!
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Looks like John has been busy deleting comments here again. I saw the part 2 that anon 00:20 posted yesterday. It described his theory that SoS's last comment here back in March where he showed us that "Severed Head Clue" hidden in the Toys Page actually released a powerful CURSE and that's the main reason this blog went down the tubes in the last few months. I think John deleting comments, which everyone notices, is not going to encourage anyone to leave a comment and that is a bigger problem than just some possible curse. Blogs with low comment counts get boring real fast and eventually lose traffic.
DeleteYou’re right, part of the blame rests with me! Unfortunately I am very busy following my better half’s instructions on various jobs she requires me to attend to while the weather is so exceptionally fine! My blogs have been dull. But fear not, I’m working on a document which I hope will gain a lot of attention both here and BWF.
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