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
