Posted by John Collins (194.164.232.108) on October 23, 2003 at 23:51:49:
In Reply to: John Collins posted by Michael on October 23, 2003 at 16:08:17:
Mike I read that too, but I can't remember where and I can't find the reference at this moment. Possibly it comes from Frank Edward's "Strangest of All" although I'm more inclined to think I read it in one of the letters written about Bessler, or perhaps Bessler's first biographer (Streider) mentioned it. I can only offer this quote from "Das Triumphans" which is describing his MT. It mentions over 100 designs but not necessarily all of them.
"I shall then also be able to give full satisfaction to all those connoisseurs and admirers of natural and mathematical curiosities, through the publication of the complete history of the invention, illustrated with many graphic diagrams showing both the true solution of the P.M, problem, now discovered in its most complete possible form by me, and realised in a variety of different designs, and also about one hundred previous ideas which were erroneous, and, to my cost, actually modelled by me (the so-called Pseudo P.M.)"
John Collins
: John,
: I read somewhere that Bessler researched over threehundred PM designs. Is this true? Where is the proof of these designs if so?
: Mike