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Alexander J. Powell |
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Who was that old man...? |
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Hi,
I'm a newcommer to this board, just here looking for some quick answers (hopefully) regarding a news report aired on channel 10 in Australia evening news in the early 1990's.
As I recall a rather elderly gent had constructed a very simple gyroscope with a mechanism that attached it to some string hanging straight down to the ground from his garage ceiling.
Now this is what has become hazy with time and, I'm unable to recollect the exact method but, as I recall the spinning gyro was heavier (?) than the motor+mechanism that attached it to the string? The gyro was about the size of a doughnut and the power supply was even smaller.
The creator of this device then turned the battery on (which was a standard AA and it sat next to the small motor driving the spinning gyro) and let it get really spinning. He then tapped the whole device with a finger in an upward direction and the inertia from that insignificant force cause the gyro to climb the string right up to his garage ceiling.
Does anyone know who this was (was this Prof Searle?) and or, does anyone have any info on that particular application? Is this a commercially adapted principle - Perhaps in the building sector????
I'm actually penning a sci-fi novel and I need to understand what I saw in order to write about it. The machine he had constructed DIDNT have any magnets involved and the scret to its weightlessness seemed to stem from the greater weight of the gyro in relation to the motor.
Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
Alex |
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30 June 2004
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Blakeman - 01/07/2004 05:56:38
| | | Interesting concept for a gyroscopic elevator that climbs the side the building.
I'm in the film business in Austin TX ?
Whereabouts are you writing the sci - fi piece?
Adios
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Alexander J Powell - 09/07/2004 06:36:15
| | | Hi, Oh I'm writing this in Seoul- Rep of Korea.
It's sad that nobody seems to have any input re this phenomenon...I'd be very pleased to correspond with anyone having some insight into the magnet free+weightless gyro.
Alex
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