In 1712 in Gera, a small town in Germany, a man called Johann Bessler began to exhibit a device he called a ‘perpetual motion machine’. It took the form of a small wheel, which would spontaneously begin to turn, achieving a rate of some 40 turns a minute.

Over the next eighteen years he exhibited more wheels, each larger than the previous. After the first two wheels, had received mixed reactions, he developed a new one which would turn in either direction, according to the examiner’s requests. I mentioned ‘examiners’ and indeed he went out of his way to try to obtain serious tests which he hoped would provide total vindication of his claims.

He arranged several examinations which included a number of high-ranking scientists including Gottfries Leibniz and many other scientists, engineers, university professors as well as various noble Lords among his examiners who all came away convinced of the authenticity of his claims.

He published a number of documents designed to help in the sale of the wonderful wheel, for a sum of 100,000 Thalers. This was an enormous sum, in those days, and equated to the £20,000 promised in England by the Board of Longitude, to the first person to come up with an idea for establishing the longitudinal position of a ship at sea. A similar sum today would be of the order of 2- 3 million dollars.

Early in his career Bessler adopted the pseudonym of Orffyreus, for purposes which were guessed at but for which no reason could be convincingly established. Recently a number of breakthroughs have been achieved and it is now known for certain that the name is intended to point to the existence of a code, hidden within several documents some published and others not published by Bessler/Orffyreus.

These documents have been copied and translated into English and are now available from

www.free-energy.co.uk.