Posted by Saurord Mordorr (217.96.35.1) on June 22, 2003 at 13:37:08:
Hi everybody,
I am a new one here - I'm not a native speaker of English so would like to apologize for any mistakes.
Me and my brother (we live in central Europe) have been working on reconstruction of Johannes Bessler vel. Orffyreus' wheel since 1998 (when we first got information about him and his machine) - we think we have finally found out how it could work, now we are working together on building 1m diameter wheel. It should be ready within a year from now - the construction is not very complicated itself but for us, non-professionals (both are bachelors of arts) it is not so easy to build it. Our computer project is not balanced in each possible position - we hope it won't be in reality either. :-) Please keep your fingers on us; if it works we'll let you know that here.
Best regards,
Saurord || Mordorr, Brotherhood of Turning Wheel
P.S. We believe in success having in mind that first airplane was also built by non-professionals! :-))