Survey machines von Unruh and Hans Coler
published: 16/07/15, 13:02
Preamble and digressions
Anyone interested in "borderline" energy inventions, which often seem to challenge well-established principles of physics, has surely explored newspaper cases and patents of inventions since the 19th century (and even before). Might there not be some good ideas in the past that could be brought up to date, or that technology would make it possible to implement today when it was impossible in the past?
Of course all the inventions that worked were exploited in their time. They have solid theoretical explanations but are of little interest because supplanted by modern technology much more powerful.
Many other inventions, or rather pseudo-inventions, reported in the mainstream American newspapers, perpetually or apparently perpetual movements, have never succeeded and for good reason (errors of measurement, misinterpretations, and especially frauds) .
From my exploration, only 2 cases on dozens reviewed, caught my attention.
I am just quoting the first for info, because the level of recoverable energy is low but its alleged principle is quite revolutionary: a "Maxwell's demon" therefore an energy extraction from a single source of heat, contrary to the second principle of thermodynamics. These are the batteries of Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen (or "Vasilesco Karpen"). To find out more, read his papers published at the Academy of Sciences in the years 1923 to 1939 (we find them at the BNF, example ).
Our Story
The second case, the subject of this thread, not yet elucidated, is the one I wish to bring to the attention of potential engineers, technicians, physicists and historians who are here. It is an invention of a German engineer, Willi von Unruh, and his assistant Hans Coler. The story began in the 1920 years but mostly happened against the backdrop of the Second World War and secret services.
It is an electromagnetic generator.The English newspaper "Daily Chronicle" Speaks of it negatively in the first demonstration made in Berlin. He presents it as a scam, and Von Unruh as manipulator of the scientists who attended. Von Unruh claimed that his machine was breaking the atom, so nothing surprising. No cheating, however, was revealed; it was more the alleged principle that was suspect. Following this article, the participant of an English firm at the demonstration of Von Unruh specified that they had ruled out the possibility of a connection to an external power supply and that the machine powered more than 3h, 5 lamps up close Of 1000 candela, which was out of reach of the small Leclanché batteries included in the machine.
In 1926, Hans Coler demonstrated the "Magnetstromapparat", a small 10W model, to three teachers, including M Kloss from Berlin and WO Schumann. The details of the measurements carried out are perfectly known thanks to a Report of the British Intelligence Service Which has been declassified to 1979 (measures 11 and 18 pages). The conclusion is that there is no deception and that a new source of energy is exploited. The German Government did not act.
According to the British report, Unruh and Coler developed in 1933 the "Stromerzeuger", a more powerful machine of 70W, which Dr F Modersohn attested. Skeptical at first, then convinced, his acquaintances with Rheinmetall Borsig (majority shareholder: the Reich), which during the Second World War was in the service of Göring for the war effort, enabled him to obtain the means for Coler to build a more powerful machine in 1937 (6 KW), the supposed year of Willi von Unruh's death.
In 1943, Coler is now associated with Dr. H Frohlig. Frohlig is convinced of the merits and is interested in the principle that would be at stake. But 1945 sees the destruction of the machine by the bombing at Kolberg. Coler evacuated.
After the war, Coler was interrogated by the British. In 1947 it obtains from them the financing of a duplication of the Magnetstromapparat by a contract of 6 month, renewed end 47 for 6 month. He died of a heart attack in this period. There is no evidence that he would have succeeded in reproducing the machine, and it is presumed that Von Unruh was probably the only true head.
For those who are interested, the site "chavascience" has cleared the ground by a serious investigation (in English). I think we should start with that, and see the British report cited above, the main source of information.
The actual subject, technical
For the technical part, which we are interested in here first, there is a surely not due to chance coincidence between Unruh / Coler machines and a patent (in French here: http://tinyurl.com/pkqloyc) By Robert Norrby, a Swede of whom nothing is known, except that Sweden was involved in the Coler affair, see the British report.
The questions that can be asked are:
- if von Unruh's machines really worked, what could be the source of energy?
- if we do not evoke an exotic source, what would be the atomic energy apart?
- if it is atomic energy, could it come from materials? What was the nature of the iron used at the time for magnetic cores ("modern" attempts at duplication having failed)?
...
Thank you for avoiding generalities about perpetual movements and miracle machines, this is not the subject. The purpose of this discussion is to target the technical device, to understand whether or not there is energy production and if so where it comes from, or to invalidate history not by trivial theoretical considerations but by Factual elements.
Anyone interested in "borderline" energy inventions, which often seem to challenge well-established principles of physics, has surely explored newspaper cases and patents of inventions since the 19th century (and even before). Might there not be some good ideas in the past that could be brought up to date, or that technology would make it possible to implement today when it was impossible in the past?
Of course all the inventions that worked were exploited in their time. They have solid theoretical explanations but are of little interest because supplanted by modern technology much more powerful.
Many other inventions, or rather pseudo-inventions, reported in the mainstream American newspapers, perpetually or apparently perpetual movements, have never succeeded and for good reason (errors of measurement, misinterpretations, and especially frauds) .
From my exploration, only 2 cases on dozens reviewed, caught my attention.
I am just quoting the first for info, because the level of recoverable energy is low but its alleged principle is quite revolutionary: a "Maxwell's demon" therefore an energy extraction from a single source of heat, contrary to the second principle of thermodynamics. These are the batteries of Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen (or "Vasilesco Karpen"). To find out more, read his papers published at the Academy of Sciences in the years 1923 to 1939 (we find them at the BNF, example ).
Our Story
The second case, the subject of this thread, not yet elucidated, is the one I wish to bring to the attention of potential engineers, technicians, physicists and historians who are here. It is an invention of a German engineer, Willi von Unruh, and his assistant Hans Coler. The story began in the 1920 years but mostly happened against the backdrop of the Second World War and secret services.
It is an electromagnetic generator.The English newspaper "Daily Chronicle" Speaks of it negatively in the first demonstration made in Berlin. He presents it as a scam, and Von Unruh as manipulator of the scientists who attended. Von Unruh claimed that his machine was breaking the atom, so nothing surprising. No cheating, however, was revealed; it was more the alleged principle that was suspect. Following this article, the participant of an English firm at the demonstration of Von Unruh specified that they had ruled out the possibility of a connection to an external power supply and that the machine powered more than 3h, 5 lamps up close Of 1000 candela, which was out of reach of the small Leclanché batteries included in the machine.
In 1926, Hans Coler demonstrated the "Magnetstromapparat", a small 10W model, to three teachers, including M Kloss from Berlin and WO Schumann. The details of the measurements carried out are perfectly known thanks to a Report of the British Intelligence Service Which has been declassified to 1979 (measures 11 and 18 pages). The conclusion is that there is no deception and that a new source of energy is exploited. The German Government did not act.
According to the British report, Unruh and Coler developed in 1933 the "Stromerzeuger", a more powerful machine of 70W, which Dr F Modersohn attested. Skeptical at first, then convinced, his acquaintances with Rheinmetall Borsig (majority shareholder: the Reich), which during the Second World War was in the service of Göring for the war effort, enabled him to obtain the means for Coler to build a more powerful machine in 1937 (6 KW), the supposed year of Willi von Unruh's death.
In 1943, Coler is now associated with Dr. H Frohlig. Frohlig is convinced of the merits and is interested in the principle that would be at stake. But 1945 sees the destruction of the machine by the bombing at Kolberg. Coler evacuated.
After the war, Coler was interrogated by the British. In 1947 it obtains from them the financing of a duplication of the Magnetstromapparat by a contract of 6 month, renewed end 47 for 6 month. He died of a heart attack in this period. There is no evidence that he would have succeeded in reproducing the machine, and it is presumed that Von Unruh was probably the only true head.
For those who are interested, the site "chavascience" has cleared the ground by a serious investigation (in English). I think we should start with that, and see the British report cited above, the main source of information.
The actual subject, technical
For the technical part, which we are interested in here first, there is a surely not due to chance coincidence between Unruh / Coler machines and a patent (in French here: http://tinyurl.com/pkqloyc) By Robert Norrby, a Swede of whom nothing is known, except that Sweden was involved in the Coler affair, see the British report.
The questions that can be asked are:
- if von Unruh's machines really worked, what could be the source of energy?
- if we do not evoke an exotic source, what would be the atomic energy apart?
- if it is atomic energy, could it come from materials? What was the nature of the iron used at the time for magnetic cores ("modern" attempts at duplication having failed)?
...
Thank you for avoiding generalities about perpetual movements and miracle machines, this is not the subject. The purpose of this discussion is to target the technical device, to understand whether or not there is energy production and if so where it comes from, or to invalidate history not by trivial theoretical considerations but by Factual elements.