Creatures of Habit

When we first start our work with creating the magical device, it sure seems obvious how simple this is to do.....  Falling arms,  levers strings and weighted parts fill our minds with the same path, that I am sure many have followed, including Bessler himself.   The natural progressions of creative innovation, is not out of the ordinary skill sets of most tinkerers and home brewed craftsmen.  It seems that Bessler would have had such an incredible set of hands and skills that I am still in awe of his prowess, but to be able to build a watch by hand still escapes my comprehension.  I am pretty good with my hands, and have built a business from the skills that my father taught me, in our back shop area where I first picked up a chisel and hammer as we carved a half of an oak log into a soap box derby.  He instilled in me a great appreciation for hand tools and the eyes of a master craftsman.  Dad was a watch maker by trade and his love and appreciation of machines and machinery helped to instill in me the time honored steps of paying the price and doing a good job.   If you don't take the time to do it right the first time you Will have time to do it over.

Bessler talked about how many times he tried and failed.   It reminded me of Thomas Edison and the 10,000 plus attempts that he made trying to figure out how to make a light bulb.  He stated that he never figured out how to make a successful light bulb, he just ran out of things that would not work.  If we can take his lead and not leave a single stone unturned in the garden of our imaginations, we will be successful.  However, it seems that this quest is not for the faint hearted or the person with limited time that can dedicated to the creation of a device that will convert a constant force, such as gravity, into a rotary motion.

There is a line in my favorite song about  having mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice...  and that single look into the human experience       We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.

Normal thinking cannot complete this task.  A systematic attack must be administered with careful notes and drawings.  We must find out what will not work and look for that activity the reveals itself and having a positive action.  Always looking to his words, and works

My thanks to John Collins for his leadership and guidance through his many years of slogging through the trenches to bring us to the eve of 2017, the year filled with so many wonderful things yet to be realized.   God bless us all as well enter this new phase in the evolution of mankind.

Always seeking

for I am

a Perpetuum Mobilist

GRAVITTEA