On 4/19/2013 5:33 AM, Stanley Schaefer wrote:
On Apr 18, 9:45 am, Ed wrote:
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This one was dreamed up by somebody that had an idea, but didn't know
I.C. engine history and has no way of knowing how to run the numbers.
Another one for a later edition of "Unusual Engines".

Stan
I think I recognize the problem here. These people have the same metal
problem that existed in my family for at least two generations. That is
the perpetual motion idea. Dad played with various ideas all his life. I
still have some of his drawings. He complained about his father's
fixation with perpetual motion even to the extent of letting his family
starve while he worked with a neighbor developing the next machine.

In all cases, the men were sure they could figure out how to make it
work without doing any research. Perhaps lack of education had something
to do with it, but I don't think so.

I recall describing some of Dad's machines to a fellow that worked for
me. I had no more than begun when he laughed and finished the
explanation for me. His father was an engineer in Seattle and had told
his son all about people designing and building such things.

I believe the men working on the Doyle engine deeply believe everyone
else who has worked on such an engine has made some kind of fundamental
error and these guys are smart enough to not make these mistakes, and so
will get the engine to be a success.

Perhaps they are German?

Paul