tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48622077780894328352024-03-27T11:55:30.265+00:00Bessler's Wheel and the Orffyreus Code<b>A blog about Johann Bessler and the Orffyreus Code and my efforts to decipher it. I'll comment on things connected with it and anything I think might be of interest to anyone else. </b><br><br>
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<b>Note the copyright notice.</b>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.comBlogger815125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-66352628506250430062024-03-19T10:16:00.000+00:002024-03-19T10:16:58.905+00:00The True Story of Bessler’s Perpetual Motion Machine.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">On </span><span style="text-align: justify;">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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-48786668308930880522024-03-07T07:36:00.006+00:002024-03-14T16:57:08.393+00:00Bessler’s Perpetual Motion Machine<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Almost everyone has what one might call their own ‘thing’, maybe a hobby or an obsession, but it’s something that captures their attention and interest - and my own ‘thing’ involves trying to verify the claims of Johann Bessler (aka Orffyreus). After almost half a century of research in a number of famous institutions holding numerous ancient books and documents, I have been able to establish that in the years approaching 1712, Johann Bessler’s did indeed build a successful working model of a perpetual motion machine. Despite the assumption that such machines are impossible it has become obvious that his claims were genuine.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My first shadow of doubt about the establishment’s view on this matter came when I read an explanation attempting to show how his machine was faked; it was so badly written and so full of false assumptions and unbelievable mistakes, that I questioned the underlying evidence relied upon and I believe it was almost entirely guesswork.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Surely such a device if false, should be easy enough to prove an illicit imposition. Such fraudulent devices are the target of many investigators who are usually are well equipped to test the credibility of the claimant. Bessler frequently experienced such negative reactions at his first exhibitions, but was able, through the help of one of the most famous scientists of the era, Gottfried Leibniz, to plan a number of demonstrations which would prove to be impossible to reject, as convincing evidence of the inventor’s integrity.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In addition he permitted a man of unimpeachable reputation who was widely respected to examine the interior workings of the machine in order to confirm or deny its validity. Karl, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was able to verify Bessler’s claims. So what are we to make of this apparent paradox?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Between 1842 and 1847 Julius Robert von Mayer, James Prescott Joule and Herman von Helmholtz discovered and formulated the basics of what we refer to as the law of conservation of energy. Energy can’t be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed from form to another.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But in their denial of the possibility of a gravity enabled continuous motion machine, though their reasoning was logical it failed to take into account every possible configuration that might over ride their conclusion. This fallacy has been questioned countless times, and from a time long before it was first mooted. There are records of hundreds of attempts to produce a perpetual motion machine reliant on the force of gravity for its energy source. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>One argument suggests that because no such machine has ever been invented, it must be impossible. If that conclusion were convincing most of the current inventions in use today would never have happened. But </span><span>Johann Bessler did find the solution and there should therefore be a concerted attempt to find it again. The potential for such a device is unlimited in this era of climate change, pollution, and the limited sources of alternative energy.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler encoded information in his books which he intended to be found and deciphered in the event of his death before he had sold his machine. It is available from this blog and my other web sites where each of his four books with full English translations are detailed. See the right hand panel for more information.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-1648042150181955772024-02-28T07:19:00.005+00:002024-02-28T15:13:53.693+00:00The True Story of Johann Bessler and His Perpetual Motion.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">On </span><span style="text-align: justify;">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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-34105146319555607042024-02-23T19:20:00.001+00:002024-02-23T19:20:39.824+00:00UPDATE and INSPIRATION<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Even though I’m 79 now, my enthusiasm for seeking and finding the solution to Johann Bessler’s perpetual motion machine has not diminished one iota. I’m still determined to find it myself, or help someone else to do so. Over many years I’ve dealt with the scornful or humorous reactions to my search; the arguments and debates over my apparent lack of understanding of the basic laws of physics; as well as the warm support from those who are open to the idea. </span><span>I know what I know, and my years of research have only served to reinforce my conviction that Bessler’s claims were genuine.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Long before the internet arrived I experienced mostly negative reactions to my ideas, if I dared to mention them to others and I quickly learned not to share my ideas. Once the internet bloomed I stuck my head up above the parapet and quickly became the target for trolls as well as serious debaters and of course a large number of others, like myself, engaged in a lengthy period of research in the same subject though not always with Bessler in mind.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Until recently I believed that if I publicised enough information about the inventor and his machine, eventually someone would succeed in producing a working model, and I have produced an enormous amount of information through five books and several web sites - but no working model anywhere in the world….. yet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I recently came to the conclusion that no amount of designs published anywhere will convince the world at large unless it results in an actual working model. Which is why I have returned to my workshop and begun again to try to recreate what I believe will prove to be configured the same as Bessler’s wheel. I apologise to those who thought I would finish it quite quickly. It’s time consuming and not so easy - I am making parts out of old discarded pieces from previous attempts, and this takes time and at my age I’m usually mostly at my best in the mornings. I also have other projects which keep me busy because as some know, we moved into this house about 18 months ago and we had builders in for six months, so there are lots of things my wife has identified, mainly in the garden, but not all, which she would like me to deal with!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The weather here has been bad with continuous rain and strong winds for most of this winter, so when it’s dry, (hardly ever) I get to work on the other projects outside. Until I’ve completed Bessler’s wheel and I have a result, I won’t know if I’m right, but win or lose, I will publish all the details. What I do believe is that when people see the completed wheel, whether or not it works, they will understand why I’m so confident that this is the real thing and maybe the concept will work, even if it requires a little adjustment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I read an inspiring blog recently and I thought about the reasons given for writing such a blog. They described how many people find encouragement by always looking forward and not dwelling on the past; we in this line of research are incurable optimists - we have to be to keep going! Everyone believes in something, whether it’s religion, science, politics or something in social media. We all have our choices and we don’t need to be afraid maintain our beliefs in the face of strenuous opposition. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>I think with absolute certainty that a gravity-enabled wheel, such as Johann Bessler’s, is perfectly feasible and the evidence that it is, is out there. If </span><span>only people would open their minds to the possibility of manifesting such claims as Bessler’s. We were taught that such a device as Bessler’s was/is impossible but it should really be thought of in the same way as a political opinion - not necessarily the absolute truth - it's just someone’s opinion.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Pierre Bayle (</span><span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: left;"><i>1647 – 28 December 1706</i>)</span> </span><span>had it right when he wrote:-</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>“<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.”</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>In his “<i>Historical and Critical Dictionary”</i>, </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: left;">Bayle expressed his view that much that was considered to be "truth" was actually just opinion, and that gullibility and stubbornness were prevalent.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p><br /></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-78966236476498925042024-02-09T07:03:00.002+00:002024-02-09T07:03:51.923+00:00The Facts About Johann Bessler’s Perpetual Motion Machine.<p> <i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><b>I am temporarily stopping my frequent blogs in order to concentrate on building a working model of Bessler’s perpetual motion machine. I have interpreted sufficient clues to make a device which is based upon his own machine. I will publish the result as soon as I can.</b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>In the mean time please read the following account of his life.</b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>On </span><span>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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-87353307717101985672024-02-05T08:44:00.002+00:002024-02-05T08:44:23.475+00:00Update on Bessler’s Wheel ……. and I’m 79 today.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’m 79 today and I’ve been studying the legend of Bessler’s wheel for about 65 years! Well, about 35 years of serious research.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not quite there yet, but confidence is high. I’m building yet another a model of his wheel based on the latest information I have obtained from various pieces of text and some drawings he left for us. This will probably be my last build and it takes time to build a device which is only sketchily described, but I’m giving it one more go. This doesn’t mean I will then give up! I shall continue to study Johann Bessler’s books and share anything I believe is important. because he intended to give the secret of his machine to posterity, but he didn’t want to give it away until after his death. Consequently he left numerous clues which had to be invisible to his followers, disciples and those curious to know how his machine worked. But he did leave comments which indicated there was information available if you looked for it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although I’m working on a small model relating to Bessler’s first exhibition model which was only four inches thick and 4.6 feet in diameter, mine is even smaller being only 3 feet wide and 2 inches in thickness, but it only needs to demonstrate the concept and verify its potential. Mine will only be able to turn in one direction unlike Bessler’s later models which were able to turn both ways.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The interesting detail of the first two wheels was that they were always out of balance, and had to have a brake applied to keep them stationary. This is a necessary feature of the these so-called perpetual motion devices. The two way models remained stationary until they were given a gentle push in one direction of the other, once the sound of a single weight falling and landing on the falling side of the wheel was heard, then the wheel began to accelerate.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These later two wheels were each 12 feet in diameter and the Merseburg one was capable of reaching a speed of more than 50 RPM. The last version, the Kassel wheel, turned at 26 RPM, but this slower speed was a deliberate design feature because it was meant to undergo to an endurance test and was only stopped after 54 days of non-stop rotation. A slower rate of turn meant it had a better chance of surviving the test without braking down early.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To gain some idea of the impressive power of the Merseburg wheel, consider this. At 12 feet diameter, the circumference measured 37 feet and 8 inches. At 50 rpm, the speed at the circumference would be 21 miles per hour. If, as was recorded more than once, that it’s the rotation speed was sometimes recorded more than 50 rpm, it’s not a big step to calculate its speed at 60 rpm, turning once every second and that would give a speed at the circumference of just over 25 mph. You could certainly feel the 25 mile an hour wind being generated off the edge of the wheel, or cycling at 25 mph on a windless day.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A report on the slower Kassel wheel which ran at 26 rpm, commented that if a man tried to stop the wheel suddenly by hanging on to it, it would lift him off the ground. These kind of subjective impressions are very convincing about the inherent power in these machines and we should not be too quick to dismiss their potential use as electricity generators.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">They were single wheels on one axle but if, for instance we were to mount ten wheels on a single axle, we would increase their power potential ten fold. That ignores potential extra weights, improved mechanisms and smaller but more complex mechanisms.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I will posting some pictures on this blog, once I’ve completed the model, but please allow a little more time before I do that, because it’s my birthday today, and I’m beginning to work more slowly!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p><br /></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-54605611311892590742024-01-18T06:33:00.004+00:002024-01-21T09:23:30.702+00:00The True Story of Johann Bessler’s Perpetual Motion Machine<p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>I am temporarily curtailing my frequent blogs in order to concentrate on building a working model of Bessler’s perpetual motion machine. I have interpreted sufficient clues to make a device which is based upon his own machine. I will publish the result as soon as I can.</b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><b>In the mean time please read the following account of his life.</b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>On </span><span>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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-9925546620486119522024-01-16T15:34:00.000+00:002024-01-16T15:34:40.579+00:00UPDATE - and BESSLER’s Wheel Today.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> My own project to build a version of Bessler's wheel in order to prove that I know how to do so, is progressing slowly and steadily. I’m using old bits and pieces from previous attempts and having to adapt them to their new purpose which is probably slowing things down, but it is less costly than buying in new material. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Now that I have accepted that nothing will prove the design other than an actual working model, I have enjoyed being in my workshop again, but I wish the temperature outside would warm up a lot. It’s currently -4 degrees Centigrade which is equal to 24.8 degrees Fahrenheit and I can’t heat the garage enough to make any difference. But I wrap up and it’s not so bad.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The wheel is three feet in diameter, marked out in fifths, like a pentagram. There are five mechanisms and five weights. I am working on constructing the levers which isn’t too problematic. I can see where the cords will pass and I have the ten pulleys marked out approximately.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I thought the cords might present a problem because there would be times in their action when the cord would loosen, and I would have to design some way of gathering the loose cord to hold it ready to tighten again. I considered attaching the pulleys to a spring loaded short lever, but in the end I found that it won’t be a problem because the falling weight which will pull the pre-falling weight just 30 degrees, acts at exactly the same time as the pre-falling weight, so the cord always remains taut. Both actions are simultaneous.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">—————————————————————————————————————-</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On another matter, I see the comments previously have cast doubt on the power obtainable from Bessler’s wheel. Bessler himself said he believed a wheel of some 20 ells in diameter would be possible. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>From my book about Bessler, “</span> <i>John Rowley, master of mechanicks, for making a dam before and </i></span><i>behind the engine, for clearing the old foundation, for setting down a new frame, 26 foot long and 11 foot high, broad enough for the twelve foot wheel for the new wheel of twenty-four foot diameter and twelve foot broad; for the new brass engine with brasses to the crank, forcing rods and a new crank et. . . £740.” </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From this we can see such a large wheel was readily achievable </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A 20 ell diameter wheel would be about 37 feet wide, and Bessler was obviously answering a simple question about what might be achievable. But having a wheel of such a large diameter is not necessary, when you could mount several wheels on a single axle, thus multiplying the potential output many times over, while keeping the diameter smaller. Modern designs would adapt a wheel to minimise the space required. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Wind turbines can be over 300 feet high and more than 200 feet wide Steam turbines can weight hundreds of tons, by comparison Bessler wheels could be effective at much smaller sizes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It has often been commented that the reason he never sold his machine was because it wasn’t as powerful as competing methods such as water wheels and wind mills, one reason for his failure to sell his machine was because of his terms of sale. He demanded the money up front before anyone could look inside the device - an understandable precaution. No one was prepared to risk that. The Czar of Russia, Peter the Great, was prepared to accept such a deal, although if Bessler had been found cheating, there is no doubt he would have demanded the ultimate sanction of execution. Unfortunately Peter died on the way to Kassel.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The other reason that his wheel was never sold was because no one could find a practical use for it. Windmills and water wheels had accomplished all that people needed and Bessler’s wheel was unproven. The only use which was considered was in removing water from flooded mines and that was solved by Newcomen’s Beam engine which began to remove water from Cornish mines in about 1705. This system used a piston pump, something unavailable to Bessler’s wheel. Although ingenious, Bessler’s machine would never find a practical use until our time, when we need a cheap, 24/7 device for producing electricity anywhere in the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-8659480151644671612024-01-11T15:43:00.002+00:002024-01-11T15:43:45.408+00:00Are We the Last of a Dying Breed? - Not If I can Help It!<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Johann Bessler aka Orffyreus, left us his record of his search for the secret of building a perpetual motion machine. He published three books which I have republished with English translations included. After his death a box was found containing 141 pictures of PM machines which failed but led him on to success. These pictures are believed to have formed part of a syllabus to be used in his intended school of apprentices. These too, have also been published with English translations of his notes where ever possible.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>There are both digital and printed copies of all of these available. I also published my account of his life and his search for the secret. </span><span>I sought each and every document issued during his life which was written to him, by him, for him or about him. These included numerous letter and newspaper articles. </span><span>During the many years I spent researching him, I also built many wheels in an attempt to find the same secret. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My books have been sold to many people around the world. This blog has been going for nine years and my books and my websites were first online or published back in 1996, almost 30 years ago! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So why has there been zero interest in a machine that could provide cheap/free electricity any where and everywhere? The answer lies in the utter inability of modern scientists, technologists, natural philosophers, researchers, inventors, amateurs, professionals, historians, boffins, experts, scholars, academics……..you get my point ….to consider that a major triumph lies waiting in the wings to step up and become the biggest solution to the energy crisis in history and the potential to ameliorate the effects of climate change here and now. No one, but no one, thinks for a millisecond that there is any thing to be had from these historic pages which are full of emotional complaining, grumbling, crying for attention to come and witness his amazing invention. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We few who battle to find Bessler’s solution are a dying breed. Most of us are of an age where we no longer work, we lead quiet lives in retirement, our focus of attention centres on finding the solution that Bessler found.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We have noted that the interests of those younger than us grew up in the high tech world which was born and flourished after we had already moved beyond its current vigour, too late for some of us to catch up. But we were fed on mechanical machines, building, repairing, studying. But that era has passed on, with higher technical demands placed on those whose expertise is required to maintain and build and improve.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the end it’s down to use to build a working model of Bessler’s wheel, it’s the only thing that will answer all the question, and make people sit up and take notice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>After all the information I have accumulated I still have </span><span>one complaint that I find so frustrating. The witnesses to the wheel gave us only the bald facts. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Where is an exact description of the noise from the wheels? They didn’t describe the cracks they could see through in the wheel. Was the sound from the Kassel wheel exactly eight or was there another softer sound? Were the thumps equally apart or was there a gap at one point in each </span><span>rotation? You can see where I’m going with this, I remain convinced that the wheels work only with an odd number of mechanisms. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The same complaint applies to all the wheels but as my old friend Mike used to say, “it’s Hobson’s choice - it is what it is, take it or leave it.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-40332153251892012612024-01-06T07:41:00.000+00:002024-01-06T07:41:18.722+00:00Johann Bessler’s Device Offers Clean, Free Energy<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">On </span><span style="text-align: justify;">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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-14997131356577425892024-01-03T08:11:00.000+00:002024-01-03T08:11:51.844+00:00Additional Imagery in Support Bessler’s Wheel.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are a number of images taken from Johann Bessler’s books which appear to support my previous post on Bessler’s Wheel Revealed. I shall occasionally post some here.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the things that caught my attention in my physical build is the appearance of the mechanism reminding me of a peacocks tail. It’s just one mechanism but it does bring that image to mind. I’ll post a picture of one of the mechanisms which demonstrates that.</span></div></div></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The second thing is the clues which I know many people dismiss, but Bessler must have thought it worthwhile to include them, and he had a purpose in doing so. Here is an example of one of them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">JEEB, (his initials), J is the 10th letter, two letters E, which are the 5th letter. He added the J and one of the Es to his forename when he succeeded in building his first PM wheel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">JEEB using the Caesar shift becomes WRRO. R is the 18th letter. W 23rd letter which doesn’t seem important but it might appear to be there for the following reason, W is composed of two Roman numerals, V meaning 5.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apart from that the letter ‘J’ seems almost superfluous. He gave us two ‘E’s which gives is 5 and 18, and the pentagram, why the letter ‘J’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>He often, (dozens of times) hand wrote the letter W as shown below as two Roman numerals linked together, and you can see it twice in the accompanying passage. Why did he want to show them linked?</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The last picture I included include the ‘W’ in the scissors and although it may not look very obvious from my drawing it is very clear in my physical build.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbYpuR41qEyRypeHI6Y3l651w7ZGOKxYlErzTmgya37VP4QUWzrjYNq9p3vyaLN0bfZ5kGCqLgzuhlDbCsPbnb40iOd6-FA2L_Z8goJPd71deoIy0MjR0mSXDDCXd1jPAhsKTtZ4ctNYVv2xUDIXakyM8o_3IctF4mrPkmVE3FzLIO_nXysau4HGxsUub4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="63" data-original-width="320" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbYpuR41qEyRypeHI6Y3l651w7ZGOKxYlErzTmgya37VP4QUWzrjYNq9p3vyaLN0bfZ5kGCqLgzuhlDbCsPbnb40iOd6-FA2L_Z8goJPd71deoIy0MjR0mSXDDCXd1jPAhsKTtZ4ctNYVv2xUDIXakyM8o_3IctF4mrPkmVE3FzLIO_nXysau4HGxsUub4=w640-h126" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha3MXBuq5W64k1X7ZVQ4Bkjyhx_YMlUrO0u6n6VccgeQxR5EWvmSVXml74PiqqO2-RYKKEjc44Z-Yx6dHyFORAOJIANdsQc2DOVwimSMim_aRANx-aZ4A7AT2kC1K3o7O1I9Lmp70cS_zd2e64EcBJlaWNwS9Et3bHkbCbjaID9VoBPAsv0PSX-FT9s5Ni" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="808" data-original-width="782" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha3MXBuq5W64k1X7ZVQ4Bkjyhx_YMlUrO0u6n6VccgeQxR5EWvmSVXml74PiqqO2-RYKKEjc44Z-Yx6dHyFORAOJIANdsQc2DOVwimSMim_aRANx-aZ4A7AT2kC1K3o7O1I9Lmp70cS_zd2e64EcBJlaWNwS9Et3bHkbCbjaID9VoBPAsv0PSX-FT9s5Ni=w619-h640" width="619" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> I always thought it unnecessary to add the ‘J’ and therefore the ‘W’ when he had already informed us of the importance of the two ‘E’s, but the ‘W’ as shown in the printed extract shown above mimics the W in my drawing. Notice how the centre of the ‘W’ has crossed lines as in the drawing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Bessler used any opportunity to put a veiled reference to these numbers. I should also point out that the 2G’s, refers to his enemy in chief Andreas Gärtner. The 2 W’s refers to another enemy, Christian Wagner, the two B’s refer to the third enemy, Johann Gottfried Borlach.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">NB - I only noticed the presence of the ‘W’ in my last picture a couple of weeks ago but I’m certain that it is one of the reasons he included the letter ‘J’ in his initials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">JC</div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><br /></p></div></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-29481668935138394872024-01-01T07:27:00.006+00:002024-01-02T09:38:50.699+00:00 Bessler’s Wheel Revealed<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Finally I’m going to share what I know, and what I think I know, about the solution to Bessler’s wheel. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">This will be a bit shorter than my intended document, because today, 29th December 2023, I accidentally deleted several pages of explanations, and I can’t get them back and I can’t remember everything I wrote!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>This might not be such a bad thing as the “Big Reveal” was getting too big! I will try to curtail my enthusiasm for giving too much detail. After all, all you really want to know is “how did Bessler’s Wheel work? And how close to Bessler’s is the design I’m going to share with you? Is it the same as </span><span>Bessler’s. I think at the end you will think that it is a bit closer.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>My</span><span> skills in MS Paint are fairly basic so I’ll combine paint and drawings and text to try to explain what I know.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We know Johann Bessler would rather have died without being paid for his secret, than have given it away because he said so in <i>Apologia Poetica (AP).</i> He also intimated that the answers could found in his books. But how would he hide information in books in plain sight without anyone realising and discovering the secret for them selves?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>There is a lot of undeciphered code in the books but the most illuminating items are the illustrations in those books. “A picture<span> </span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); text-align: left;"><span>is worth a thousand words" is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a mere verbal description. In Bessler’s case the opposite seems almost true. His pictures look bland and boring and inaccurate but they contain real information disguised in an ingenious way.</span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u>PART ONE</u></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler took an inordinate amount of trouble to hide the importance of the number five in plain sight. Despite its ubiquity the majority of people seem to have dismissed its seeming importance and continued on their search for the solution, relying on the witness report of eight thumping noises from the Kassel wheel.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I searched for and found geometric and numerical patterns within all of the inventor’s publications. I found pentagons in various places. Most significantly in his first two books, <i>Grundlicher Bericht (GB) </i>and <i>Das Triumphirende</i>. <i>(DT) </i>Two of them in DT indicated parts of the mechanism hidden in one segment of the pentagram.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler also buried within his copious amounts of writing, many clues presented almost as an off-the-cuff comments, but deliberately sown into the text to catch the eye of any serious researcher.</span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>In one example he wrote, </span><i>“a great craftsman would be he who, as one pound falls a quarter, causes four pounds to shoot upwards four quarters.” </i><span>Note that within the quote he mentions that there are five weights, one plus four, and each one is equal to one pound. Secondly, one pound falls a quarter. How do we define what he meant by a quarter? In this case he was referring to a clock - something he also embedded, invisibly, in the first drawings in both </span><i>Grundlicher Bericht</i><span> and </span><i>Das Triumphirende</i><span> - and a quarter of an hour or fifteen minutes covers 90 degrees. But how could this single right angle fall cause </span><i>“ four pounds to shoot upwards four quarters”? </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">We saw in the first part that the word ‘quarter', referred to, not just 90 degrees but also to a clock. In the second part the word ‘quarter' also refers to a clock but this time he has confused us by using the words ‘four quarters’. ‘Four quarter’s equals ‘one whole hour’. Each hour on a clock is divided into 30 degrees, so the words ‘four quarters’ meaning ‘one hour’ as used here equals thirty degrees. To paraphrase Bessler’s words, <i>“a great craftsman would be he who, as one pound falls 90 degrees, causes each of the other four pounds to shoot upwards 30 degrees.” </i></span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">You might also think it would have been better to have said that<i> </i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB">“</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">one pound falls 90 degrees, causes<u> one</u> pound to shoot upwards 30 degrees”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">, but that would have removed the information that five weights, and therefore five mechanisms were involved, so it had to be <u>four </u>weights plus the one. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span>I </span><span>should point out that in previous blogs I have shown two other places where Bessler showed the same information, that </span></span></span><span>is, a weight falling 90 degrees, causes another weight to shoot up the same 30 degrees.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In <i>MT</i> Bessler hints that other odd numbers will also work, by creating slightly different page numbers for the ones he was was pointing to. So in addition to five mechanisms, he included seven, nine and eleven mechanisms. I think it possible that the Kassel wheel had nine mechanism and one of them was silenced with felt, hence “the sound of about eight weights landing on the side towards which the wheel turned”, as reported by Fischer von Erlach.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u>Why five mechanisms and how does it need such short sharp lift?</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the illustration below you see a wheel divided into five equal portions, a weighted lever in each one. The wheel turns clockwise. The weights fall through 90 degrees. Each weighted lever is tilted forward 18 degrees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRz2nJV4V35JHN_flP128IKSz_eod4Ghu5VQn9u3BGYDsHogMEpZxOTNetRBrI-NVowcb-WHpnvWoTenSe7TMRFe0Qg05t3eeQiYmuC1YHvP64nBwKH0eAOvgZg-K4fu2FfIYaEjMwxfbTyMp0jcYNVMM1OswVxcm-nEs_E_LL-xGucZ3k7rtlfBE9RAax" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="530" data-original-width="613" height="553" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRz2nJV4V35JHN_flP128IKSz_eod4Ghu5VQn9u3BGYDsHogMEpZxOTNetRBrI-NVowcb-WHpnvWoTenSe7TMRFe0Qg05t3eeQiYmuC1YHvP64nBwKH0eAOvgZg-K4fu2FfIYaEjMwxfbTyMp0jcYNVMM1OswVxcm-nEs_E_LL-xGucZ3k7rtlfBE9RAax=w640-h553" width="640" /></a></div>In the next one the black weighted levers fall from their pre-fall position and once fallen, come to rest at the wheel’s edge. As the wheel continues to turn the weighted levers begin a retrograde motion, rotating backwards as wheel rotates forwards</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN-GB">The only problem arises when the weighted lever has fully returned to its starting point; it needs to be pulled outwards in order to be able fall again. It’s locked in and can’t fall. As you can see in the picture there needs to be a cord connecting the mechanism to pull the locked in lever out by at least 30 degrees.</span></span><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Bessler and Wagner had a brief discussion in which Bessler wrote, “</span></span><span face=""Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: #ebeadd; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"> </span><span>Even Wagner, wherever he is now, will have heard that one pound can cause the raising of more than one pound. He writes that, to date, no one has ever found a mechanical arrangement sufficient for the required task. He's right! So am I, and does anyone see why? What if I were to teach the proper method of mechanical application? Then people would say: "Now I understand!”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I think the picture below explains Bessler’s view - they were both right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgob4W0kgmSen8dK3SbFoTbxTfcxHOveuzq6vQQsW-4e2-lWJMcE_d3oCWPXmtLkB3Fqo8ay-dSeEI1DwPV0SdxGoMlsnqRUNjbUVwwKSWNfhKk8X1KbtNp4cTRzFOnBi8NCCSPf10beMG4jWe_7OPtbe2nBErFlbsDGeqXTJp7DyAOoQ5zfLRaRwVd3f82" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1259" data-original-width="1275" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgob4W0kgmSen8dK3SbFoTbxTfcxHOveuzq6vQQsW-4e2-lWJMcE_d3oCWPXmtLkB3Fqo8ay-dSeEI1DwPV0SdxGoMlsnqRUNjbUVwwKSWNfhKk8X1KbtNp4cTRzFOnBi8NCCSPf10beMG4jWe_7OPtbe2nBErFlbsDGeqXTJp7DyAOoQ5zfLRaRwVd3f82=w640-h632" width="640" /></a></div><span>This looks promising but we all know it won’t work. Why? </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span><span lang="EN-GB">Because it lacks the <u>Bessler-Collins Connectedness Principle.</u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><u>PART TWO</u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span><span lang="EN-GB">When Bessler briefly mentioned the principle we had no idea what it was. Maybe a prime mover because he said several of the machines in <i>Maschinen Tractate (MT) </i>wouldn’t work unless they had it included in the design. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span>In the following description I decided to add my name to the title of this version for the following reason. Although he mentioned it in his </span><i>MT </i><span>no one knew what it was, but I believe I have discovered the answer by studying and deducing what it must be. I decided to publish my idea but realised that if his own definition of the principle should surface, perhaps through someone deciphering some encoded text, it might be very different or just slightly divergent, I had better add my name to my version. Because although his principle might be the same as mine, if his description of it turns up at some point, it will be useful to be able to differentiate between the two versions. Anyway mine might be wrong or just different, but I don’t think it is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span><span lang="EN-GB">So here is what I believe to be the Connectedness Principle probably discovered by Johann Bessler, but also by me more than 300 years later.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;">Firstly, why did he use the word “connectedness”? He could have used a “connection” or “connect”. But those two words suggest a firm connection, whereas <span>“connectedness” has a different nuance, a feeling of variable or intermittent contact. What does that mean?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span>Considering the word “connectedness”, I thought that the connections must be between the weight and the pivot, the weight and the wheel or the pivot and the wheel. It seemed to me that the connection between weight and the pivot as well as the one between the weight and the wheel had been explored an infinite number of times leading to a similar number of failures. But the connection between the pivot and the wheel hasn’t been explored as far as I know, maybe it has but I haven’t seen it discussed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span>In the picture above, all the weighted levers are connected to their pivots and able to swing and rotate about them. The only variable lies in the position of the weight at certain times. I realised that it might be possible to arrange for the pivot itself to move from one position to another and back again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span>The picture below is similar to the one above but I’ve added the results of enabling moveable pivots. The red weights show the improved positions caused by moveable pivot points. </span><span>Notice the red weights have taken up different positions particularly at radius 5 and 1.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt;"><span>The red weight at radius 5 is actually too early and would arrive there when radius 5 is about half way closer to where radius 1 is.</span></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhteVnv8hq6zS6BvtUWm_u-1mZhoNoln3q3dsRsaQ58dDJyJFescAPjRMcMDoWFRLvbMLsT516xl4O3Bb6-IlOxNJAmwjWHgwdexPUk42wDNt4I3JO-CXAabojkSvy6tRqOc_eBa5RhHa37jCBBOz-Ib-Fa2jKBsFIoL_uk6Y_2i3qbXRPJ6TeBM0foeSkM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="859" data-original-width="760" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhteVnv8hq6zS6BvtUWm_u-1mZhoNoln3q3dsRsaQ58dDJyJFescAPjRMcMDoWFRLvbMLsT516xl4O3Bb6-IlOxNJAmwjWHgwdexPUk42wDNt4I3JO-CXAabojkSvy6tRqOc_eBa5RhHa37jCBBOz-Ib-Fa2jKBsFIoL_uk6Y_2i3qbXRPJ6TeBM0foeSkM=w565-h640" width="565" /></a></div>So in my opinion the Bessler-Collins Connectedness Principle requires the designing of an odd number of weighted levers supported by moveable pivot points. The lever itself should not be extended because the moving pivot will send the weight on its end to reach further back on the wheel’s edge.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Briefly then the pivot is attached to a moveable part of the mechanism. When the lever begins to fall, it’s pivot begins to move sideways , causing the path of the weight to follow a straight sloping path. The weight lands much further back along the circumference creating more torque. This makes the wheel rotate further than it would do with the simpler system shown above. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I must stress that the moveable pivot must be attached to a moveable part of the mechanism not directly connected to the wheel. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u>PART THREE</u></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The following pictures demonstrate where and how Bessler provided the necessary information.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The green circle is required and touches the tops of the two supports. It’s encloses the left end of the horizontal part of the ‘T’ shaped pendulum. It also includes the padlock, and touches the bottom and right side of the picture.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 14.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimncFvMmjLi4l2AjfQ0T9RaqJkMs6Q0iKdG8nq3cFXMIrqx30wvlqtnXQ0xBn-_82bZmyGocwr-pwW8t6mu_qksB73fEhLAGff_j9j-W_UPmiylk44w3pldegIBcm17nlTmCdv4aU_9ZDwypMUJrInQw2gOsia96QrQKliE6uv4vDglzaLgcJkGe_Tdgpo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1168" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimncFvMmjLi4l2AjfQ0T9RaqJkMs6Q0iKdG8nq3cFXMIrqx30wvlqtnXQ0xBn-_82bZmyGocwr-pwW8t6mu_qksB73fEhLAGff_j9j-W_UPmiylk44w3pldegIBcm17nlTmCdv4aU_9ZDwypMUJrInQw2gOsia96QrQKliE6uv4vDglzaLgcJkGe_Tdgpo=w640-h410" width="640" /></a></div><br />The pendulum is too long as it is and the excess needs to be removed. The remaining part of the pendulum fits inside the pentagon fifth portion. The red and blue parts show the two positions the weighted lever must reach. Before we examine this picture we must rotate it 180 degrees. This is indicated by the apparent typo in the padlock, which is wrongly labelled 42, but should read 24. I have argued many times that this is a deliberate act designed to inform us to turn the picture upside down. Now I’ve done it.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhrConqVEazvi065nXxLVjjMAtw1vtvt_1KfuTu5oh-PjnSQe4wxGa7wicYiK4LK-uOtns1wkxNmHaNhrLA9u2buyp-IgkUPS1ABOZtaUkJ3Wxvp-_WKsD8xvETTXScSZEAo1xItCmv2mfT5SNvx8Q-JShcvK4aep_e6s1W2IRVo1p3480OoMmwQWYM3G3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1168" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhrConqVEazvi065nXxLVjjMAtw1vtvt_1KfuTu5oh-PjnSQe4wxGa7wicYiK4LK-uOtns1wkxNmHaNhrLA9u2buyp-IgkUPS1ABOZtaUkJ3Wxvp-_WKsD8xvETTXScSZEAo1xItCmv2mfT5SNvx8Q-JShcvK4aep_e6s1W2IRVo1p3480OoMmwQWYM3G3=w640-h410" title="www.gravitywheel.com" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In the above picture the detail contained within the red square on the right shows the similarity to the main mechanism, except that the end of the horizontal part of the ‘T’ pendulum appears to be attached to a wall. This I believe indicates that that part in the main mechanism is fixed to the wheel able to rotate about that point. This</span></span> suggestion is supported by the picture below, which shows detail from the <i>GB </i>and <i>DT. </i>The left picture is from <i>DT</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyL2zTQ83HWM3SNjRmh_wd2dbrrcLPvqTPrpFfck_19tC0Mgia2b8DX3uhFQMaqUvvOeTeFekscU2S8awYoqrcyWMYu5DgFmQK_2QrmMQHBcaXvT_H5Hbc0GgN9VHBdLjyZ9l672QNo2DtuSTRWBblGzIkx7vTQXfBY4RXkKG3T_Y4VhrNeLsOrCrRA_sz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="226" data-original-width="539" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyL2zTQ83HWM3SNjRmh_wd2dbrrcLPvqTPrpFfck_19tC0Mgia2b8DX3uhFQMaqUvvOeTeFekscU2S8awYoqrcyWMYu5DgFmQK_2QrmMQHBcaXvT_H5Hbc0GgN9VHBdLjyZ9l672QNo2DtuSTRWBblGzIkx7vTQXfBY4RXkKG3T_Y4VhrNeLsOrCrRA_sz=w400-h168" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There you can see that in the right picture, the semicircle is deliberately drawn wrongly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Returning to the upside down picture. The red part is in position to fall and the blue part shows it’s in the fallen position. I compared the lengths of the red and blue portions and they are equal. But the blue portion finishes just up to the limit of Bessler’s original circle, shown by the black dot at its end. This supports the idea that the pivot must be able to </span><span>move sideways to bring the weight up to the edge of the green circle.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As I said earlier, extending the lever will not work, the pivot point has to move. The following picture will show the structure of the mechanism which moves the pivot along with its lever and returns it at the correct moment in rotation. The long green rod is supporting the moving pivot and is able to move through an arc. On the end of this rod is the weighted lever or pendulum that we have seen moving from an almost upright potion, 18 degrees from the radius, through 90 degrees to land on the edge of the wheel some way back close to the following radius.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA8xV3cM-LWOl2BnOZgu-xaSu9YiN3dC7UQxsMjM8T7mFzJ6w7C1waiLrn-fwgG88IgYsg1x24u9hyrtHghl2-KSvuoGxEDinwantPDEbYR6tMkPp8Uodmf_cD9TrtWeyvjRS7Uq2GhVOqGKGNgaEeKNriL7_w3k4B-mk0BZX4ymHeWKVuGPlJhfxkhwBh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1481" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA8xV3cM-LWOl2BnOZgu-xaSu9YiN3dC7UQxsMjM8T7mFzJ6w7C1waiLrn-fwgG88IgYsg1x24u9hyrtHghl2-KSvuoGxEDinwantPDEbYR6tMkPp8Uodmf_cD9TrtWeyvjRS7Uq2GhVOqGKGNgaEeKNriL7_w3k4B-mk0BZX4ymHeWKVuGPlJhfxkhwBh=w640-h314" width="640" /></a></div><br />The purple lever has a purple round weight on the outer end. It’s mass/weight is mainly carried by the green lever, which is anchored close to the axle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The dark blue lever with the round purple empty weight shows roughly where the weighted lever would be if fully retracted. It’s pivot point is close to the same point on the end of the green lever where it joins the purple one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">POST SCRIPT</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Obviously this document is abbreviated to accommodate a complex explanatio</span>n and some not-so-good illustrations. There are a number of graphic clues I could add, plus of course I’ve omitted all reference to the Toys page.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have posted the simplest design but there are other, possibly better ones which I’m going to post later in January. The most important clue in my opinion, is the:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bessler-Collins Connectedness Principle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the moment I don’t know if it’s the same as Bessler’s but I think it must be because it might be the one reason why so many designs have failed so far.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why the odd number of mechanisms was required has always been obvious to me and I’ve never understood why it seemed as though nobody else agreed with me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PS. I forgot to add this alternative design with double scissors to make the weight easier to reach further back along the wheel edge. I also connected the green lever to the wrong point on the double scissors.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some convincing clues in support of the above design, relating to his name.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAn45Jxc_zLxq4ulv_RpSrKX9PVqgy6B8HhgRrQev0oO9zhMwXIPfqkYicydJDefRasrYgMvaGb9KAl1eNj1GZLoy8PMUDKZiPJ38VMHXqbYytKc7vW2Bg-YaTnYCAJiwqNCYZjM0z_y596DJxoVosr4qA4eOPwSq9YvVkjvEZvWNX4vCvJLBmxADGw6vB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="808" data-original-width="705" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAn45Jxc_zLxq4ulv_RpSrKX9PVqgy6B8HhgRrQev0oO9zhMwXIPfqkYicydJDefRasrYgMvaGb9KAl1eNj1GZLoy8PMUDKZiPJ38VMHXqbYytKc7vW2Bg-YaTnYCAJiwqNCYZjM0z_y596DJxoVosr4qA4eOPwSq9YvVkjvEZvWNX4vCvJLBmxADGw6vB=w557-h640" width="557" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">JC</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Copyright © 2024 John Collins</span></span></div><div><br /></div></span>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-21581410519400375772023-12-23T06:40:00.001+00:002023-12-23T06:45:36.519+00:00Preliminary to Sharing the Solution.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is a precursor to my sharing of what I believe will prove to be the solution to Bessler’s wheel. It’s just to explain how I got to this point and to prepare the ground for my posting of the most important parts of my information. There are many additional pieces of information which all go towards confirming my findings, but they would fill a book, which is what I’m doing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Johann Bessler deliberately left a treasure trove of clues which once solved would, he must have hoped, lead to someone finding the solution to his perpetual motion machine. This would give him the acknowledgement he sought, albeit after his death. He wrote that he would rather receive that than just give the secret away during his life.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So how did he intend us to find his instructions for building his perpetual motion machine? First he adopted the name Orffyreus, which was a simple ROT13, or Caesar shift code. This code was a well known cipher that he knew would be picked up but maybe only followed up by those whose curiosity was piqued about the wheel. That led to more complex coded stuff. He dropped hints that the secret was available if you knew where to look.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You know the old adage, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, I believe Bessler left pictures of his machine showing how it worked and he also left written descriptions for two reasons. One reason is that although a picture may contain useful information, it may not be enough to complete the necessary detail, particularly because it has to be disguised so that no one could happen upon it by chance and understand it easily - and more words will be necessary to fill in the gaps even leaving out the fact that the picture had to be camouflaged for security reasons.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He disguised the information that revealed his secret by using a number of different codes both textual and graphic. I always believed that the best ones would be found hidden within an illustration and that is what I found. In my blog dated 8th June 2019, more than four years ago, I wrote, <i>“The most instructive drawings have proved to be those found in DT. They contain everything you need to know about how to reconstruct Bessler’s wheel - yes, everything”</i></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 15th November 2017, six years ago, I wrote,<i> “So the four drawings in Das Triumphirende contain just about all the information you need to build Bessler’s wheel.”</i></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 29th May 2012, eleven years ago, I wrote, “<i>In fact only the toys drawings in MT contains useful information. There are additional hints in MT137 and in the letters 'A' which he used in MT, and there are hints too in some of the illustration numbers. The remaining drawings he was referring to are the five which appeared in his Das Triumphirende and of course the one in Grundlicher Bericht and the one at the end of Apologia Poetica. These five drawings hold almost everything you will need to build his wheel.”</i></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For so many years I studied those illustrations without finding the key. But over the last year or so, I believe I’ve unravelled the complex weave of hints, red herrings and sleight of hand to produce a likely contender for the solution. Like Bessler I’m going to try to demonstrate my reasoning by using illustrations more than words, but both will still be necessary.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m writing a blog containing the information about the design and configuration of his wheel, once it’s done I will post it here and on Besslerwheel forum for anyone to attempt a sim. I’m also building a prototype but I’m very busy with other time- consuming activities so it might be that the model isn’t finished until some time in January. But you never know, it’s not a very complex design, maybe I’ll get a chance to finish it earlier. Of course it could happen that a sim proves my design before I finish my prototype - or someone else does.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, if I’m right about the above suggestions about the solution being hidden in plain sight in his published illustrations, and someone finally builds Bessler’s wheel according to the design I’m going to publish, it will prove beyond all doubt that we will be able to reproduce a model of Bessler’s Wheel which exactly replicates his own wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I intend to publish the big reveal either on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day depending on how I am feeling on the Eve!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">JC</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; text-align: center;">Copyright © 2023 John Collins</span></span></div></span></span>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-31068825708285634852023-12-13T06:50:00.003+00:002023-12-13T08:03:11.104+00:00Gravity is the Originator of Rotation in Bessler’s Wheel.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It still surprises me that some people dismiss the possibility of gravity being the chief originator of movement in Johann Bessler’s wheel. Gravity enables a Bessler-wheel to rotate by causing the weights to fall in a particular configuration. One requirement is that the weights land in a way that generates a limited amount of rotation in the wheel. The second requirement is that the weights can be lifted back to their pre-fall position in time to fall again, with a lot less energy than was generated by their fall.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Yes we are told that it’s impossible for two reasons. One is that gravity is not a source of energy and therefore cannot be used to drive the wheel and secondly once the weights have fallen it would take extra energy to lift them back up again, there being less energy available. But according to Bessler he was able to lift the weights back up using less energy than was produced by their fall. This unused energy was available to accelerate the wheel a little, in the following rotation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Gravity may not be defined as an energy source but it makes items of mass move downwards or fall and that is an action that we can make use of. The second requirement is necessary because without it there can be no continuous rotation. Just because we don’t know how to design a method that would allow the weights to lifted back up at a lesser cost in energy, does not mean it can’t be done.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Other energy sources have been proposed over many decades, but none can produce the same results as Bessler’s wheel did, and without revealing the source of the energy they used.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Bessler stated in </span><i>Das Triumphirende…</i><span>, “<i>NO, these weights are themselves the PM device, the ‘essential constituent parts’ which must of necessity continue to exercise their motive force (derived from the PM principle) indefinitely – so long as they keep away from the centre of gravity.”</i> So we can have no doubt that the weights are indeed the cause of the PM. What is left? Nothing but the force of gravity.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler said he had solved that problem. We believe he was genuine, therefore lifting the weights to the necessary height can be done for less cost in energy and we can find the way he did that too. I believe I know how it was done and soon I’ll know if I’m right and so will you.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p><br /></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-43786721876509984282023-12-05T14:28:00.000+00:002023-12-05T14:28:12.522+00:00The True Story of Johann Bessler and His Perpetual Motion.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">On </span><span style="text-align: justify;">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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-28706555080588981292023-12-01T09:10:00.000+00:002023-12-01T09:10:18.719+00:00Update for Christmas and Onwards to Next Year<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So the end of the year approaches and I’m still building my Bessler-Collins wheel. I’m trying to finish it before New Years Eve, but if I don’t finish it by then I will still publish everything anyway, and continue with my build. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As I’ve said before, and others have too, nothing proves the concept/design/configuration better than a working model, so even if the design is being simmed, I’ll continue with my project.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’m not good at producing images so the explanation will be a mix of text and images. I’ll try to keep it short and as simple as I can. I won’t take up too much space explaining where I found the clues and how I arrived at the interpretation, much of it will be fairly obvious.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The main thing is that once anyone understands the concept, it probably won’t need much further explanation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A detailed explanation of all the clues I used is being written but that will take much longer to become available. Bessler had no way of knowing which, if any, of his clues would be identified and interpreted or deciphered, so he doubled up on lots of clues, distributing them here, there and everywhere in text and drawings. Some clues had two ways of deciphering them, and if they came up with the same answer that was a good result. There are literally dozens of them and that does not include the huge database containing 141 Bible references which I have barely skimmed - and although I can prove it contains coded information, I haven’t succeeded in deciphering it. I calculate that there are potentially in that chapter between 1000 and 1500 characters or words to find and decipher.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler’s wheel concept is easier to understand than to build, for me anyway, but I suspect that more than a few people will accomplish a working model more quickly than I and it will look much better than mine. The skills and tools I used to have are considerably diminished but hopefully I’ve got enough left to make this model. If not then I just hope the sims will inspire enough people to build an actual working model. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is a very busy time for me, not just because I’m building a model and writing up both a simple description for posting after Christmas, as well as the long term version for a later time, but I’ll also be travelling north before Christmas to stay near my granddaughter Amy and her parents over Christmas, and it’s normally a three and a half hour drive, but it being this time of the year, I reckon it could take longer. I’m also on shopping duty!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also, you may remember my granddaughter Amy Pohl is a TikTok and YouTube influencer with over 3.7 million followers. I fear I shall be dragooned into another of her infamous videos, along with the rest of the family. So embarrassing!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’m very excited and at the same time apprehensive about my big reveal! I anticipate a kind of stunned reaction, when people see how simple the solution is. I just hope I’m right!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-68887081635884588182023-11-27T18:56:00.000+00:002023-11-27T18:56:10.904+00:00What Goes Around, Comes Around……Again and Again!<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>I’m aware that some people, (</span><span>maybe more than some!) are disappointed by my ‘sharing information’ posts because they say that it’s all stuff I’ve shared before, but I don’t want to post anything which will give away the design I’m working on just now. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>As you’ll see from this post I’m reminding myself of some of the things I’ve shared, and I can tell you that there are some blogs which give a great deal of really useful information. At the time I wrote them, I regretted writing so much, but as is often the case no one picked up on what I’d said and it was all dismissed as my ‘usual speculation’, and best dismissed or ignored. Having said that I note that in </span><span>2019 I wrote, </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>“</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span><i>Following a fair criticism in comments, I have taken on board the suggestion that I should at least have given away some of the clues I used to discover Bessler’s design for his wheel. I have posted several clues over a number of years but for those who missed them, here are some of the ones previously identified plus some I didn’t mention. These are not necessarily in order.”</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So still not revealing enough apparently! Still, at the end of this year you will know most of what I think I know about how Bessler’s wheel worked. I’d like to finish a working model before I publish what I know, because experience warns me that without one, no one will take any notice again, and just dismiss it as speculation.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I recently noted that some of the subjects of my old posts, both here and on the Besslerwheel forum, pop up from time to time there. I realise that there must be a lot of people currently exploring this subject who have not looked into old posts in either or both sources for obvious reasons.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Firstly, if they’re new to this subject, they think that only recent posts may have useful information in them and therefore there is no point in studying old posts. Also maybe they don’t have the time to plough through huge numbers of posts without knowing exactly what to search for, or they can’t be bothered, and I don’t blame them for that.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A quick look at the stats on this blog shows I have posted 798 pages, which received 29,915 comments and 1,786,619 visits. That’s a lot of words to search, so I thought I’d suggest some searches.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>The number ‘<i>5</i>’ is my favourite and it goes all the way back to 2010, and is frequently discussed over the years. ‘<i>Pentagram</i>’ too is a frequent presence on this blog. ‘<i>Kiiking</i>’ a subject which I introduced here and in the BW Forum and has been taken up in numerous other places. ‘<i>Parametric Oscillation’ </i>is another old favourite, which I first discussed with the famous </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); text-align: left;"><span>parapsychologist and electrical engineer, professor Hal Puthoff way back in 2004; and <i>‘drawings’</i> is another.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are so many interesting subjects covered both here and at the BWForum, that I couldn’t do justice to them all, so if and when I think of them I may offer further searches. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-58598123152489918762023-11-24T15:47:00.001+00:002023-11-24T15:48:16.403+00:00Sharing Info MT 138, 139, 140 and 141- AKA — The TOYS Page<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This post contains some of my ideas about where and how Bessler intended to reveal the workings of his perpetual motion device, or what is generally referred to as Bessler’s Wheel. Without a working model this is speculation, but I believe it is based on some sound interpretation of the many clues and hints he scattered throughout his documents.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> I’ve written several blogs about the ‘Toys’ page so this is my latest and best attempt to explain all of it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The figure below is from the original <i>Maschinen Tractate, </i>which is a name I coined for it because I originally thought that Bessler was referring to this collection of drawings in one of his letters but I think now he was talking about another project.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Underneath this original picture is the same figure cleaned up which is the one I’ll write about and explain what I believe is the true meaning of all the separate figures.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ4jZ1rW581fnHifRDyf3BGr_9pe5KnLFdykRABtz9F0ey2w82KhSylmZyaMMTGvcpjTqps5eAjjdumz1JtTkOPZOspZmVvvjO_aVvyc1l5H8l1xT8VDXGDDiyHLHBf6iJXzgr-5lwFJQX82aq7wLAETs6kHYvpl_PVGAPZZgOfbS6LBPhJylT9hMdHCP-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="365" data-original-width="240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ4jZ1rW581fnHifRDyf3BGr_9pe5KnLFdykRABtz9F0ey2w82KhSylmZyaMMTGvcpjTqps5eAjjdumz1JtTkOPZOspZmVvvjO_aVvyc1l5H8l1xT8VDXGDDiyHLHBf6iJXzgr-5lwFJQX82aq7wLAETs6kHYvpl_PVGAPZZgOfbS6LBPhJylT9hMdHCP-=w421-h640" width="421" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6pcLVHW5AuqO_oYKingjSDdHTWxkZQSeYXm9zLCkHhB24kx7aSv7blEUQvnYktaGFaxAccs1X8CiKNnEyQByNNkWig6ZQJO-LAtTMYnv9RNRzwRIQSFLgnjRJD7ZOYxT1y1coIPwnyrnWnFuiz0G1MK4fiId_VhLY0fXp_QPfHAFnEWUzRiPbVtnVBwZw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6pcLVHW5AuqO_oYKingjSDdHTWxkZQSeYXm9zLCkHhB24kx7aSv7blEUQvnYktaGFaxAccs1X8CiKNnEyQByNNkWig6ZQJO-LAtTMYnv9RNRzwRIQSFLgnjRJD7ZOYxT1y1coIPwnyrnWnFuiz0G1MK4fiId_VhLY0fXp_QPfHAFnEWUzRiPbVtnVBwZw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmczbuP0LCEbpqTh0C4hhHWevt-LiTSogsOUQ-IZsWWCCehEw6mILlzS9DxjIxSjookpiWqFxIjq46xCPe5YXgEhMJwgqSrFm2xKy7xt127Bdsa5XVN_UhVNtjLw_0QBYrlBYD90ASJZwLLantqGpC6EnwMq4Fv1EU9jpmys9dsTqa8wZJXrygw9LlUJv8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="565" data-original-width="360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmczbuP0LCEbpqTh0C4hhHWevt-LiTSogsOUQ-IZsWWCCehEw6mILlzS9DxjIxSjookpiWqFxIjq46xCPe5YXgEhMJwgqSrFm2xKy7xt127Bdsa5XVN_UhVNtjLw_0QBYrlBYD90ASJZwLLantqGpC6EnwMq4Fv1EU9jpmys9dsTqa8wZJXrygw9LlUJv8=w408-h640" width="408" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">Notice first that items A and B can be split into five equal parts. This signifies that there are five mechanisms. Notice each figure in A looks similar to the two items C and D, this is to provide a hint that their actions very roughly mimic the actions of the actual mechanisms. Each part of A is linked to the next part with a length of rope.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">Items C and D are each labelled twice. Both sets of figures show two figures working in pairs, which agrees with a statement to that effect by Bessler. The two C’s have arms but the two D’s don’t. The two C’s show two of the figures working in pairs before they have acted; the two D’s shows the same two figures after they have acted. This implies that C did the work so was active but D was acted upon and was passive. C lifted it’s paired mechanism and thus D was lifted. Item D has spirals which indicate that the figure is at a different angle to C, because if, for instance, C operates at the six o’clock radius the D is lifted from a different point on the edge of the circle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">It’s worth pointing out that he drew one of each mechanism but then added two D’s and two C’s to stress that the two figures were the same mechanisms working in pairs, but at different points in the rotation of the wheel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">Item B is an interesting one and I only understood why it was drawn in this way a few months ago. The answer lies partly in item E. You can see in B that it consists of five straight vertical lines with one dot alternately on each side or, if you ignore the five separating lines, it’s a straight vertical line with those dots on alternate sides.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">I’ll return to B in a moment, first let us examine item E. The items on the page are numbered 1 to 5, yet there are six, if you count the hand drawn spinning top. This looks like a late addition to me which might explain why he wrote 5. next to his scribble note. But as someone pointed out to me many years ago, the number 5. with its clearly drawn full stop or period indicates not five items, but the fifth item - the letter E. The scissor mechanism or storks bill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">Remember Bessler’s frequent use of alphanumerics, in this case <span>his </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">scribbled note in the Toys page, “<b>5.</b> </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Children's game in which there is something extraordinary for anyone who knows how to apply the game in a different way”, </i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">applies in particular to the scissor mechanism labelled </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">E</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">Now in another drawing which I’ll discuss in a later share, it indicates</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">that the scissor mechanism should be applied in a different way which looks like this one:-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd1MddmCKirYcM1KIpMu9w_EJfleEa5xYc0y7BqGxcB__Gg5LRazAgxWiho1Vvebn-eTHC-CiklnmAMpUGCnS7xIe4YO2n4oruHmfFhoWOlA-ZEOxe6xumDVSQQzDpdixK3QuNsAu2hoaKCo7RFcg6A-BUP4LtRvZyU0nKuEcUcj4Tj7EaGmNAGNgoAm8P" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="781" data-original-width="972" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd1MddmCKirYcM1KIpMu9w_EJfleEa5xYc0y7BqGxcB__Gg5LRazAgxWiho1Vvebn-eTHC-CiklnmAMpUGCnS7xIe4YO2n4oruHmfFhoWOlA-ZEOxe6xumDVSQQzDpdixK3QuNsAu2hoaKCo7RFcg6A-BUP4LtRvZyU0nKuEcUcj4Tj7EaGmNAGNgoAm8P=w640-h514" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>In </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the above picture I have extracted items B and E because B shows which part of E you need to use. Notice the same dots are there in E but in B half of them have been removed leaving a single line. This shows the alternate swivel pins or joints holding the short lengths of metal at each end together. The middle of each piece of metal shows a pivot which allows it to rotate. If the figure B is accurate, and I’m sure it is, then there is one of these mechanisms in each fifth segment.</span></span></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is similar to the picture below which shows a simple mechanism used widely in organ building in Bessler’s time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also remember Bessler’s comment in AP, “</span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>A crab crawls from side to side. It is sound, for it is designed thus.” </i> This comment is a hint that this mechanism will work best in a horizontal position where there is no lifting required just side to side action.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix57d7gregQCq2rtaCKFS62kUAQTYuhkPItCVaM6tC6h7lkruW5r98fhUnP-xn0EW6ovYg7gp8rlBZ65r9TL6jI-eMz3DZHCpxCkMIusabOm5m8PTAU6_SxdoAW0kaVc55JpNGjw-WKJteM6uMqVba9RuBMXR7g-S-Yrs5RjJ7v2SKjC6_rRnmfjAyKr6U/s269/IMG_2029.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="269" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix57d7gregQCq2rtaCKFS62kUAQTYuhkPItCVaM6tC6h7lkruW5r98fhUnP-xn0EW6ovYg7gp8rlBZ65r9TL6jI-eMz3DZHCpxCkMIusabOm5m8PTAU6_SxdoAW0kaVc55JpNGjw-WKJteM6uMqVba9RuBMXR7g-S-Yrs5RjJ7v2SKjC6_rRnmfjAyKr6U/w320-h222/IMG_2029.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The two short lines at the top end of the original version of B will be explained later but they indicate two positions of a short lever attached to the end of the zigzag line.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">That’s all for now. More later.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">JC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><p></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-84063473253390118512023-11-19T18:59:00.000+00:002023-11-19T18:59:32.817+00:00Further Update on Bessler’s Wheel Model.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Building this prototype has made me realise how clever Bessler was to squeeze all of these mechanisms. into such a thin wheel. His first wheel was only four inches thick and even allowing for very thin coverings there wasn’t much room inside. On the plus side, in my version none of the mechanisms overlap so there isn’t a problem of them taking up too much room within the internal depth of the wheel.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’ve placed ten pivot points, two per mechanism. The levers are a little complex and getting their configuration right requires a small amount of trial and adjustment. I deliberately did not say trial and error, because that is not the case; it is necessary to find the optimum arrangement and this can only be defined accurately by trying slightly different adjustments to each part. I know exactly how they are supposed to work. Once the exact proportions of one lever is correctly determined, the others can be made in the same manner.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although none of the five mechanisms overlap in their actions, they are connected in pairs so that as one weight falls another is lifted. There is no requirement for one pound to lift four pounds as I have explained many times. Yet, although doomed to failure, people still try to design a system thst can do that. This is what Bessler said, “as one weight falls 90 degrees it’s paired one is lifted suddenly just 30 degrees.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The next and final part is designing connections between each pair of mechanisms. At first I assumed two pulleys per mechanisms would do the job, but I’ve discovered that that won’t work because they get in the way of the action of the levers. It’s quite likely that the configuration can be altered to include the pulleys in their most effective position. But for now I’ve had to make alterations to the positions and even the use of the pulleys and for this prototype I’m not using them. The alternative is to replace the pulleys with a simple eye from a hook-and-eye fastener. This would be fine for a short demonstration but not for long term use. The cord I’m using slips easily and smoothly through the eye.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My five weights are small and roughly equal to about 2 ounces each. Each one can easily lift another weight a short distance quickly. Larger weights would produce more speed and overcome the friction inherent in my home-made bearings but I’m only trying to prove the design and not make a 50 rpm wheel……yet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>I’m not posting pictures until I’ve </span><span>tested this device to see if it works, before I share anything more informative. Someone commented that no one could simulate the design unless I included a picture but I don’t want anyone to simulate it yet, not until I’ve tested it as a working model. What I can say is the designs were completed by studying several drawings in AP and DT, plus the ‘Toys’ page and hints from a few others. Even then I had to have a much needed kick up the backside by means of a sudden revelation about a drawing in the ‘Toys’ page which linked with another drawing which I thought I had understood, but I hadn’t considered for long enough all the potential variables possible.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Anyway, slow progress but creeping progress at least. Quite a lot of careful assembly necessary to get the levers working correctly. As I’ve said many times, I will share all of it once I’ve tested it, working or not working, because I believe I’m very close to what Bessler designed, so my efforts might be enough for someone else to finish it. I’m aiming to finish one way or the other by New Year’s Eve, if not before.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">GB <i>Grundlicher Bericht</i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">AP <i>Apologia Poetica</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">DT <i>Das Triumphirende</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MT </span><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Maschinen Tractate.</span></i></span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-37917615643605382092023-11-16T09:31:00.004+00:002023-11-16T09:32:50.165+00:00The True Story of Johann Bessler and His Perpetual Motion.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">On </span><span style="text-align: justify;">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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-25939797528040678532023-11-11T08:11:00.006+00:002023-11-19T06:20:47.368+00:00A Brief Account of My Bessler Journey to the Present.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Between 1960, when I first read Gould’s excellent account of Bessler’s wheel and 1974 when I built my first attempt at replicating it out of balsa wood and washers, my thoughts were confined to my mind and numerous scraps of paper and pencil drawings. From then until about 1980 little changed until I made up my mind to try to obtain as much hard information about Johann Bessler and his perpetual motion machine as I could possibly manage. This was of course before the internet made this kind of task so much easier.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I joined the British Museum Library and was able to actually touch and handle GB, AP and DT. Subsequently I obtained poor copies of those same documents, but I couldn’t read them. I advertised in a local newspaper for anyone who could translate 18th C German into English. Amazingly I was contacted by four people, one of whom was Mike Senior who became a good friend over the next twenty years or so.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He translated everything into English, handwriting it and adding a number of notes about what he had done. He asked me if I wanted a literal word by word translation or what he said would be his best impression of what Bessler wrote, conveying meaning and nuance where possible. I chose the latter because I simply didn’t know what was in the documents at that time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Seeing as we all make use of his translations I should say a word or two about Mike. For a start he was </span><span>was a polymath and a member of MENSA. He was </span><span>consultant to the local authority on flora, having a Masters Degree in Botany in fact several degrees in different unrelated subjects - he was just curious about everything. He read and spoke 18th C German, read and translated Latin and could quote from memory from all the Greek classical plays in the original Greek. He was an expert on astrophysics and wrote papers for peer review in scientific journals. He loved Maths problems and tried to explain String Theory and Riemann’s Conjecture to me, for example. It went straight over my head at very high altitude! He also like his beer! There was so much more to Mike but space is limited. But he did once say to me, “of course you do realise that what Bessler claimed is impossible”. We laughed and agreed to disagree.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Once I had the translations plus a number of other documents about Bessler, also in German and needing translating, I set about writing my own biography of Bessler, trying hard to stick to the facts as presented. Most of these were either letters to and from and about Bessler, or items from the local newspapers of the time. Included were accounts of several official examinations arranged by certain men of high standing including Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel who agreed to offer his patronage and support but only if he had first satisfied himself that the machine was genuine</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I was unable to get a publisher in the U.K. to publish my book, although I only sent it to about a dozen publishers having written the manuscript in one year. I read that JK Rowling took seven years to write her first book! Maybe I should have held out for more publishers, but I was impatient, and decided to self publish.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Later I decided in addition to PM:AAMS? to self publish GB, AP, DT and MT. It wasn’t profitable at all but it enabled me to just about cover my costs in running several web sites.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">While this was happening I continued with my day job and in my spare time constructed many PM wheels. I began this blog back in April 2009. It’s alarming to see how confident I was back then - nothing’s changed!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’ve done numerous radio interviews both here and abroad. I was invited to Rome to take part in a documentary about Bessler. Unfortunately it was all in Italian, even my words were dubbed in so I don’t even know what I said let alone what the rest of the cast said. It was a bit of a set up as the other speakers were traditional scientists following the classic path that it was impossible.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I was asked to lecture at the Glastonbury Crop circle symposium in the mid 1990s and met Brian O’Leary a trained astronaut although he didn’t complete his training. It was a strange gig, which resulted in me discovering I could dowse for water, not a very useful trick these days, but curiously rewarding.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I also did a radio interview from home, here in England with Redneck radio in Greenwood, USA. Hilarious but good fun.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There is so much more but I don’t want to bore the pants off you!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">GB <i>Grundliccher Bericht</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">AP <i>Apologia Poetica</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">DT <i>Das Triumphirende</i></span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-91498969970443633992023-11-04T06:31:00.001+00:002023-11-04T06:31:12.832+00:00What Was the Purpose of this Blog? To Inform.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I think sometimes that people question the purpose of this blog. My approach has always been to try to interest everyone who happens to drop in on this blog and I’ve tried to maintain an ethical standard in my writing, not knowingly including false information but occasionally offering speculation. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>I have from time to time got carried away with an optimistic view of my ongoing research and made promises I was unable to fulfil. I understand how frustrating this can be, and I humbly apologise. Usually I try to curb my enthusiasm, but from time to time I fail. A quote from Top Gun seems appropriate;”</span><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif"> “</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(40, 40, 41); text-align: left;"><span><i>Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash</i>”. I must apologise if I seem overly optimistic, but in my defence, I know that optimism is a vital ingredient in this field of research.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When I began this blog back in February 2009, I never dreamed that I would still be writing it 14 years later. and yet here I am. I’ve described numerous clues and codes I’ve found that Bessler inserted into his publications over the years and they actually amount to a lot of information. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>As time passed I imagined in my naivety that some people would see and understand the interpretations I was giving away freely and do as I have done. I have continued to search, find and interpret clues and codes, hoping that people would continue my work, possibly getting to the solution before me. But no; they haven’t! I realised fairly recently that nothing else would change this but a working model and a full explanation of how Bessler gave us the clues to solve this puzzle. This </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span>laissez-faire attitude among my readers is possibly because everyone wants to be the one who finally finds the solution to this 311 year old mystery, using their own interpretations of Bessler’s meaning.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Be that as it may, the moment of truth is fast approaching. The solution to Bessler’s wheel might well be a simultaneous discovery or invention. Given that so many people are engaged in this pursuit, it’s quite possible, even likely, that two or more will announce the solution within hours of each other. I don’t mind if this happens, I welcome it, let’s let the genie out of the bottle, that’s the most important thing.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My chief aim over the life of this blog has been to try to keep the story of Bessler’s wheel alive in the mind of the countless numbers of people already engaged in seeking the solution. It has also been my self-appointed task to try to bring the story to the younger minds who are not perhaps au fait with the legend, and of course pursue my own research whether through building models - and when that failed to materialise successfully - continue to look for new clues/codes which still awaited deciphering.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have to admit that after so many years building experimental models that did not work, I stopped and concentrated on finding the solution without the bother of building, but since I recently came to the conclusion that only a working model would ever convince anybody that my interpretations are correct the thought of starting to build again was a little daunting, but having begun again I am enjoying it and am hopeful, finally, of success.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This has been an expensive exercise. I originally ran 10 websites but I had to let some of them go which was a painful decision for me. The only income I had that I could use to keep this thing going came from the sale of books which is why you will see the occasional blog promoting the legend of Bessler’s wheel. It’s getting harder to cover the expense and I can see a time not so far off, when I’ll have to let them go, but I’ll keep on while I can.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have latterly found a few new clue/codes and reinterpreted old ones, and this information which I have been able to add to that which I already have, has enabled me to at last believe I’m almost there. My current build will be my last one, if it doesn’t work, I think I will know why, and it will then be my pleasure to release all that I know, and some that you don’t know I know! </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">People often ask me if I would patent the device if I was able to build a successful one - well the answer has always been no. Patents are not for likes of us, too expensive to get and too expensive to watch over and defend. Besides you’re never going to stop random people and companies elsewhere in the world, building and selling their own Bessler wheels, where such niceties as moral and legal systems are overlooked. So no patents.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></span></p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com67tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-49893551166081541132023-10-30T13:16:00.000+00:002023-10-30T13:16:20.560+00:00The True Story of Johann Bessler and His Perpetual Motion.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On <span>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 the outside of it, but it’s internal workings were kept hidden. This was because the inventor feared that his design would be copied and someone else might obtain credit for all his years of hard work looking for the solution. He followed the advice from the famous scientist, Gottfried Leibniz, who was able to examine the device, and recommended a number of demonstrations and tests designed to prove the validity of his machine without giving away the secret of its design.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Karl the Landgrave of Hesse permitted Bessler to live, work and exhibit his machine at the prince's castle of Weissenstein. Karl was a man of unimpeachable reputation and he insisted on being allowed to verify the inventor's claims before he allowed Bessler to take up residence. This the inventor reluctantly agreed to and once he had examined the machine to his own satisfaction Karl authorised the publication of his approval of the machine. For several years Bessler was visited by numerous people of varying status, scientists, ministers and royalty. Several official examinations were carried out and each time the examiners concluded that the inventor's claims were genuine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over a number of years Karl aged and it was decided that after so long it was time the inventor left the castle and he was granted accommodation in the nearby town of Karlshafen. Despite the strong circumstantial evidence that his machine was genuine, Bessler failed to secure a sale and after more than thirty years he died in poverty. His death came after he fell from a windmill he had been commissioned to build. The windmill was an interesting design using a vertical axle which allowed it to benefit from winds from any directions. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He had asked for a huge sum of money for the secret of his perpetual motion machine, £20,000 which was an amount thought 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 before the buyer was allowed to view the internal workings of the machine. But 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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 78). 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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not long after I was able to read the English translations of his books, I realised that Bessler had embedded a number of clues in his books. These took the form of hints in the text, but also in a number of drawings he published and I found suggestions by the author that studying his books would reveal enough information about his wheel,to allow “<i>someone with an acute and discerning mind, to build one”.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For some ideas about Bessler’s code why not visit my web sites at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.theorffyreuscode.com/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a look at my work on his “<i>Declaration of Faith” </i>at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.orffyreus.net/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.orffyreus.net/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Also please view my video at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/5BWVKtpuzn0</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It gives a brief account both the legend and some more detail about some of the codes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The problem of obtaining a fair reward for all his hard work 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. He implied that he was prepared to die without selling the secret and that he believed that posthumous acknowledgement was preferable to being robbed of his secret while he yet lived.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 his codes and I am confident that I have the complete design.
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">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 also my own account of Bessler’s life is also available from the links. It is called "<i>Perpetual Motion; An Ancient Mystery Solved?" </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This biography contains a wealth of information about Bessler himself, as well as many quotes by Bessler and letters to him or about him from many interested parties. It tells of his life up to and including his years with Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, and what happened to him later.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bessler's three published books are entitled <i>"Grundlicher Bericht"</i>, <i>"Apologia Poetica”</i> and <i>"Das Triumphirende...".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have called Bessler's collection of 141 drawings <i>“Maschinen Tractate”</i>, but it was originally found in the form of a number of loosely collected 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 use them in his planned school for apprentices.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can order copies of the books from my website at </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.free-energy.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">http://www.free-energy.co.uk/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Printed books direct from the printer can be obtained from here</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/johncollins</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or from the top of the right side panel under the heading ‘Bessler’s Books’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are also links lower down on the right side panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These books contain the most important information available if you seek to find the solution to Bessler’s wheel.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JC</span></div>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-5355849139316284292023-10-24T08:54:00.001+01:002023-10-24T08:56:06.018+01:00Update on Building a Working Model of Johann Bessler’s Wheel.<div style="text-align: justify;">Things are taking longer than I anticipated due to other factors not associated with Bessler’s wheel. Mainly it concerns my granddaughter Amy. I don’t wish to divert attention from my Bessler occupation but we received some generous funds from kind people on our crowdfunding page a while back and by way of a thank you, I thought I would just provide a link to an update article in the Guardian newspaper. Thank you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/24/i-have-spent-years-in-such-pain-that-i-begged-for-someone-to-cut-my-arm-off-this-is-how-i-survived" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/24/i-have-spent-years-in-such-pain-that-i-begged-for-someone-to-cut-my-arm-off-this-is-how-i-survived</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But here is brief update on my build.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’ve mounted the wheel on a simple axle which I can drop into a couple of receivers as I call them. They weren’t designed to be part of a set of bearings but they do the job, I’ve used them before. There will be a little resistance or friction, but if the wheel works as I hope, it will be able to overcome it because it is designed to do work, so overcoming friction is the least of my concerns. This method of attaching the wheel to the support structure works well because it is easy to remove the wheel to work on it when it’s lying flat on the work bench. I can simply lift it out without opening the bearings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The wheel is currently almost perfectly balanced but once the mechanisms are attached that will probably lead to some unwanted imbalance even if they are locked in place to prevent any of them acting. In my experience these are problems which can be easily resolved later. Maybe the amount of imbalance won’t affect the action anyway.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first five pivot points are fixed and working. I think their positions relative to the axle position and the edge of the wheel are correct, if there is some adjustment needed, there are two options; one is to move the pivot points inwards or outwards, the second is to reduce the size of the mechanisms. I don’t think this will be necessary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are things to be sorted out once all five mechanisms are fixed and their action is as I intended. Placing of two pulleys for each mechanism will require a certain amount of trial and error. I know where they need to be but I may have to deal with avoiding obstruction by certain parts of the whole assembly. I’m confident that although these are potential problems I’m anticipating, I’m confident they will be simple to resolve.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This next bit is the most interesting to me. I can picture how it all works and I can’t wait to test it. From a lifetime of experience in this field of endeavour I know that not everything will immediately turn out perfectly but I feel as though I’m on the final furlong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’m sure that most people think I’m kidding myself and that most of my code breaking is wrong or meaningless, and that if, as they suspect, it won’t work, then my plans to share what I know won’t be worth a penny. But I think many people will be amazed at the amount of information Johann Bessler left for us, and I plan to publish all of it, with or without a working model.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I’m confident that it will work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">JC</div><br />John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4862207778089432835.post-69134330461403060072023-10-19T06:46:00.000+01:002023-10-19T06:46:21.943+01:00Johann Bessler’s Inspirational Dream<p style="text-align: justify;">Three hundred and eleven years ago Johann Bessler, aka Orffyreus, exhibited something he called a perpetual motion machine. It took the form of a wheel mounted between two pillars or supports. It rotated at about 50 RPM, and would begin to turn as soon the brake was released. He welcomed the public who examined the device. They were allowed to stop it, start it, or slow it down. He didn’t allow anyone to see the interior because he intended to sell the machine for £20,000.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Most people are convinced it was a fraudulent enterprise.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are those who believe Bessler’s Wheel was genuine but don’t know where the energy came from to drive it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Others who accept Bessler’s words that the weights were the energy source and therefore accept that gravity provided the energy. The problem they encounter is that we have been taught that gravity is not an energy source because it’s a force. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The situation has resulted in deadlock. The circumstantial evidence that Bessler’s wheel was genuine is compelling. It’s legitimacy was verified by the only person besides Bessler, who was permitted to study the internal workings. This man, Karl the Landgrave of Hesse Kassel, was chosen because his reputation as an honest person of great integrity had been established over many years, acting as an honest broker trying to bring the wars that were then currently being waged throughout Europe to an agreeable end. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">His excellent reputation was critical to his role as an impartial mediator and he would never have become involved in anything of questionable authenticity. His name was a vital part of the verification, but he only accepted that role if he was permitted access to the internal structure of the wheel to confirm what Bessler claimed was true. He described it as quite simple and expressed surprise that it hadn’t been discovered before. He issued an official document, certifying that the claims that Bessler made regarding his perpetual motion machine or wheel, were correct.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This leaves us with an interesting paradox. We have been taught for more than three hundred years, that perpetual motion machines defy the laws of physics, yet it would appear that this may not be true</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So we have two points of view to consider. Here’s a quick reminder.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Bessler swore his machine was genuine</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Karl agreed and issued a certificate stating in his opinion, the wheel was genuine</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Every test devised simply added to the evidence that Bessler told the truth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Who is right, Bessler or the venerable scientific institutions?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Bessler began by simply showing his first wheel, spinning and being stopped and starting again. It always began turning as soon as a brake was released. Spectators were encouraged to thoroughly examine the device but not allowed to view the interior.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">News of the wheel reached the ears of that famous man of science, Gottfried Leibniz. He arranged a private meeting with Bessler to study the machine’s performance and concluded that it was a valuable machine. He suggested a number of tests that Bessler should incorporate in his public exhibitions of the machine to persuade potential buyers of the machine’s merit.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The tests included stopping and starting the wheel, including running it in either direction. This was a new step by Bessler who wished to make his machine able to rotate in either direction in order to silence those who claimed his machine was wound up by clockwork, this required the wheel be given a gentle nudge in either desired direction before the wheel began to turn and accelerate to its full speed. Other tests included translocation of the device from one set of bearings to another a few paces away; allowing intense examination of both sets of bearings before and after translocation; demonstrations of the wheel’s power in lifting heavy loads and driving an Archimedes screw pump were routinely demonstrated. Finally a 54 day test in which it was locked in a room, with a 24 hour guard outside the door. The wheel was made to begin rotating and the room locked and sealed with Karl’s personal seal. The rooms on either side and above and below had already been checked for some connection with the locked room. All was found satisfactory. After 54 days, Karl unlocked the door and he and a number of witnesses found the wheel still spinning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So what is the answer to this paradox? It’s clear from the history of this particular area of study that literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people have sought a solution to this puzzle, from the earliest inhabitants of Egypt, Sumer, the Indus valley and China up to the present day. It seems that there is an inbuilt instinct that a device such as Bessler built is an absolute certainty if only we could discover how to build it. Johann Bessler knew; he built a working model.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The evidence is clear, a machine which is enabled by the force of gravity to run and run, is simply waiting to be rediscovered. It’s not perpetual motion because it could come to a stop through wear and tear, accident, overloading etc. But it could run continuously without using any of the traditional sources of energy such as running water, wind, fire or the modern equivalents.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">How? Bessler said the weights provided the energy. Energy is a property of the weights in Bessler’s wheel, but they have to be moved by the force of gravity. The weights provide a medium through which gravity can supply energy by moving them, making them fall. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We’re all familiar with the need to lift the fallen weights at each revolution. Bessler discovered the method, it came to him in a dream, maybe a daydream. He found the answer and in his books he provided codes and clues and hints, indicating everything we need to know to duplicate his work. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I believe that I have found the answer and am currently building a model which I hope will be a working model! I too found inspiration in the middle of the night, lying awake considering everything. This happened a few months ago and I’ve been working on how to make the best of use my of sudden comprehension. Of course I have been here countless times over the last 50 years or so, but I’m confident that I have the right configuration and am trying to finish this build and then working or not, I’ll share what I believe is the solution to this very long search for the truth.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">JC</p>John Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13274781515636883957noreply@blogger.com0