Perpetuum Mobile; Or, a History of the Search for Self-Motive Power from the 13th to the 19th Century

Perpetuum Mobile; Or, a History of the Search for Self-Motive Power from the 13th to the 19th Century

Author: Henry Dircks

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781230371092

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... PERPETUUM MOBILE; OR, SEAECH FOR SELF-MOTIVE POWER. CHAPTER I. EARLY OPINIONS RESPECTING THE POSSIBILITY OF, AND PROJECTS FOR OBTAINING, PERPETUAL MOTION. The most ancient recorded scheme for effecting a mechanical perpetual motion that we have been able to trace, belongs to the thirteenth century. Its inventor was Wilars De HoneCort, an architect, whose original Sketch Book, in which his design appears, as reproduced in the annexed engraving, is deposited in the iScole des Chartes at Paris. In 1849 M. Quicherat published a commentary, as did also M. Lassus in 1858, on that remarkably interesting art relic. Translations of these, with additions of his own, appeared in 1859, by Professor Willis, of Cambridge, to whose valuable work we are indebted for the following particulars on the subject under review. At page 35, appears Plate VIII., Eectof of the Fifth Leaf, marked in the thirteenth century with the letter 1, and in the fifteenth with the letter e. "' Maint ior se sunt maistre dispute de faire torner une ruee Facsimile of the Sketch-Book of Wilars de Honeeort, an architect of the thirteenth century; with Commentaries and Descriptions by M. J. B. A. Lassus, late architect of Notre-Dame, and of the Sainte Chapelle at Paris, &c.; and by M. J. Quicherat, Professor of Archaeology at the Ecole des Chartes at Paris. Translated and edited by the Rey. Robert Willis, MA., F.R.S., &c. 4to. 1859. f Recto and verso are terms employed to distinguish the drawings in the Sketch-Book, from their being made on both sides of the leaf. par li seule. Ves ent ci con en puet faire par mailles non pers ou par vif argent.'" "Maint jour, se sont maitres disputes pour faire tourner une roue par elle seule. Voici comment on peut le faire par maillet non pairs...


The Triumphant Orffyrean Perpetual Motion Finally Explained!

The Triumphant Orffyrean Perpetual Motion Finally Explained!

Author: Kenneth W. Behrendt

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 841

ISBN-13: 1546276750

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In June of 1712, a previously obscure German-Polish inventor named Johann Ernst Elias Bessler first came to prominence in the town of Gera, Saxony, by publicly exhibiting a remarkable invention. It was a self-moving perpetual motion wheel whose secret mechanics had taken him a decade of sacrifice, toil, and the construction of about a hundred handmade models to finally obtain. In the years following, he continued to improve his successful invention and eventually constructed and demonstrated a twelve-foot-diameter wheel at a count’s castle in the town of Kassel, Saxony. By then, his marvelous wheels were the talk of European high society and had been witnessed by thousands of people. His dream was to sell one of his amazing machines and then use the money to found a religious university dedicated to teaching the many technical crafts he had learned during his life and travels. Bessler, however, fearing an unscrupulous buyer might try to learn the secret of his wheels before complete payment was made, demanded a single upfront sum that at the time was equal to the value of a ton of gold! It was an amount of money that only the richest could afford to pay, yet none seemed willing to do so unless he could know the secret of Bessler’s wheels before the sale was made in order to satisfy himself that he was not paying a king’s ransom for a worthless fake. As a consequence of this stalemate, the invention was never sold, and in November of 1745, Bessler, then sixty-five years of age, was killed in a tragic construction accident. He took the secret of his wheels to his grave, and it has remained there for the last three centuries despite the efforts of thousands of perpetual motion seekers to rediscover it. Now, however, with the publication of The Triumphant Orffyrean Perpetual Motion Finally Explained! this situation has changed. After discovering an unsuspected source of hidden instructions Bessler left to guide future reverse engineers of his wheels and then using them to construct and test over two thousand computer models, author and researcher Kenneth W. Behrendt can finally reveal the long-sought secret of Bessler’s wheels and do so with enough detail to allow them to be duplicated today! This groundbreaking treatment of the subject should be of great interest to anybody wondering about the possibility of self-motive machinery in general or seeking to explore the topic of Bessler’s wheels at a far deeper level than was previously possible.


Engines of the Imagination

Engines of the Imagination

Author: Jonathan Sawday

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1134267932

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Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance.