Posted by Davis Landstrom (195.92.194.13) on January 16, 2002 at 08:53:53:
To Scott et al,
I recently found an interesting web site about Bessler, but it was in French. The most interesting thing on this web site was some information and an animation of a Bessler wheel mechanism proposal which had been devised by David Cowlishaw. You might recognise the name, he is the one who developed and patented the G.I.T (Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster) the worlds first efficient purely mechanical reactionless propulsion device which has been replicated and tested world wide. He has recently turned his attentions to the Bessler wheel problem and has come up with an interesting take on an old desighn I always thought of as unworkable, anyway this web site is at:
http://www.multimania.com/quanthomme/MVP.htm
The machine that I am talking about is under the heading:
Une conseption de machine d'Orffyreus par David Cowlishaw.
Click on the picture of it and you will see how the mechanism works. It is about two thirds of the way down the page. the desighn looks simple enough to follow, however there are aspects of it like the Bi-coloured weights which I do not see the purpose of.
It is explained in full in the text, French anybody?