New progress in another attempt is alway exciting. Each time I start.........I feel that I am only one mechanism away from success. ONE........Bessler's wheels kept getting wider and larger in diameter with each new and endeavor. The larger in diameter is so easy to see...........that the moment arm is much greater for the weight to do work, but the wider is a real puzzler. The speculation about the width could come in the mechanism. I am now convinced that the shape of the wheel he displayed had nothing to do with the mechanism itself. The covering was just that...............a covering with a light framework of wood and cloth to hide the mechanisms.
The wheel could have been in segments. That the mechanism could not reach its full potential with 8 of them on a single segment so..........the wheel was made wide enough for 2 segments or more. They were judged to be about four pounds each, and their shape was definitely cylindrical. If the weight that he had in a handkerchief and let someone hold was a cylinder about 4 inches in length and the weight about 4 pounds.........as described, then take the width of the wheel at that time.......... the weights in the then a little extrapolation will bring you a weight of 1.75 inches in diameter and 4 inches in length in Steel.............if he used lead it would be slightly different. The largest wheel was 18 inches in width and 12 ft in diameter, but the weights were only 4 inches in length ????? Then the rest of the wheel could have been to hide the mechanisms to hold and drop the weights at the appropriate time. Timing is everything in this effort.
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