the shaft to be driven and surrounded on its outer surface by
magnets which are attracted and repelled by the force of the
stator. The copper wire attached to the internal copper tubing
filled with electret runs through this wheel and supplies
electric power to the magnets. The magnets are hollow and filled
with the same electret. There are always an odd number of
magnets.
A variant of this rotor comes to us from Taeufer, who refers to
this further development as the "Ur-Machine". This machine is
composed of six sphere units as described above, five revolving
around a sixth set above or below the plane of the other
revolving spheres. A seventh unit would be employed to rotate
the rotating five spheres and so would be offset, and not
attached to the others. The five rotating spheres would charge
the sixth stationary sphere. The sixth and seventh spheres would
function as an anode and cathode and so ground the unit. The Urmachine could be used to activate other spheres instead of a
battery-earthing procedure (10).
As a prime mover, an engine, the rotor would be employed turning
a driven shaft. The stator would be offset, that is, moved off
center in relation to the rotor. Schappeller worked out various
angles of efficiency (11). The driven shaft could be used to
power any number of machine applications such as, for instance,
the propellers of a ship.
Means of Operation
The device is started through totally unique battery and a
connection to the earth (12). A specific excitation impulse must
be given to the device (13). This electric impulse was conducted
through the iron magnet and jumped the gap in the center of the
sphere to the other iron magnet.
What occurred then sets this device apart from all others. In
the vacuum of the sphere, in the center space between the two bar
magnets a field of "glowing magnetism" was set up. This glowing
magnetism was something entirely unique. It is recognized as a
magnetic field but much more powerful and unlike any magnetic
field of an iron bar or an electric coil. Once the initial input
had been made to start the device, the battery and ground could
be disconnected. The device would continue of operate on its own
(14).
For an understanding of what is really happening here we have to
consider the bar magnet. We think of a bar of iron with two
poles, one positive and one negative or perhaps one north and one
south pole. But there are really three components to the bar
magnet. There are the two poles and the neutral zone between the
poles If we cut the magnet in half we get two new poles. For the
Schappeller this neutral area is very important. Imagine a bar
magnet running through the vertical axis of the ball. Then
imagine the center section cut out. We now have a north pole at
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