My first thoughts on inertia engines occurred to me in 1967. I was commuting to London from the suburbs and the train had stopped between stations. Another train pulled up along side and whilst I was gazing out of the window at its braking system, the blinding revelation (utterly spurious, of course) came to me that it should be possible to produce a sideways "drag" from a flywheel by "pinching" the "centrifugal stretch" in the flywheel's materials on one side only. Most materials stretch under tension. The aim here was to capture and use that stretch for traction. Dumb cluck...

Somewhat dejected and having run out of funds, I abandoned the idea but after a few tears and years, decided to try again, this time in a more compact format. People in that frame of mind, with dangerously small quantities of proper knowledge won't listen to reason. I know this. Got the T-shirt...

The truth of it is, I wanted not only to design a motor that would "derive direct traction force form magneto-centrifugal differentials" but I also wanted it to take apart into a useable chess set! Not too ambitious, really...

As if that wasn't bad enough, The central spindle was in the form of the tantric symbol: "Dorji": very Hippy...

The logic (if you can call it that) behind this format of "inertial traction engine" was that by arranging the spindle to be set at an angle inside the coil, the skin effect of the alternating field & resultant eddy currents set up would provide the spindle with the required torque to spin. At the same time, by making successive sectors of the spindle "dip into" the hyperbolic field enclosed within the coil, the long sought-after lateral (or hopefully vertical!) drag would be obtained.

Of course I tried initially to make the format fit around the magical 45° but there was no way to comply with that ideal because the thing had to have bearings (the "castles" in the chess set). My goodness me; what a lot of effort to no avail except a stretched mind and imagination. Ho Hum...

The astute observer may notice that the clips holding this chained series of "engines" are in the form of a chess knight; the connecting links are toy jacks(!) Glass marbles sealed mercury in the "castle" bearings ~ (hydrodynamic).

oh, dear... oh, dear... oh, dear...

This page updated December 10th 2002 - a day when the British government has announced plans for major motorway widening schemes across the U.K. !!! Something has to change, sure but this can't be the way to go...

In a world of diminishing resources, it is hardly surprising that many right-thinking minds are turned towards thoughts of alternative technologies. It is a fact that throughout the history of science, many giant leaps have been achieved by persons from and on the outside of the particular technologies where those advances have been made. This is commonly considered to be because the inventive step occurs to the individual as a direct result of his or her lack of blinkered thinking, which would otherwise be brought about by the clutter of that received information which is commonly deemed necessary for the individual to take on board (in order for them to participate within that given respected specialist industrial discipline). That was some sentence...

Of course such crucial turning points in science are rare and very much the exception to the rule. The vast bulk of progress is always achieved by hard slog, regimented & well-structured thinking and mostly - teamwork. Unavoidable small truth...

Enjoy. Go back to the beginning...