ThinAirDesigns said:
Notice in the THIRD PARAGRAPH of the treatment you posted Bauer
clearly states that he DID NOT INVENT this device.
Does not say that, Niarhead.
The inventor is *unknown*
I can imagine lots of things that certainly will come about given
enough time, but just talking about something does not make me the
inventor. Here is the introduction by the inventor Andrew Bauer,
the reader can decide whether just talking about a problem and its
possible solution is the same as explicitly presenting the
solution. Since no one else explicitly presented the solution,
then IMO Andrew Bauer is the inventor.
INTRODUCTION
If one is given a uniform wind traveling over a level surface, is
it possible to construct a man carrying vehicle which by use of
wind energy alone can accelerate in the wind direction from zero
speed up to a speed larger than the wind speed? For variety, the
level surface may be considered to be either a hard surface or a
body of water. The work described in this paper has been carried
out for the purpose of answering this problem.
Clearly, no ordinary sailboat can perform this task, inasmuch as
the relative wind drops to zero as the boat approaches the wind
velocity, whereas the hull drag is consistently increasing. A land
vehicle has essentially the same problem because of rolling
friction. Therefore one is tempted to answer this problem in the
negative.
The above problem had its genesis at the University of Michigan
where it was communicated to Mr. D.L. Elder some 20 years ago. The
proposed solution involved the use of a propeller geared to the
wheels in the case of a land vehicle or geared to a second
propeller in the water for the boating case. Thus, the usual sail
was to be replaced by a propeller geared to a wheel or a second
propeller. If sufficient power were available to drive the first
propeller, the vehicle could travel faster than the wind, but as
soon as one suggests that this power be obtained by gearing the
propeller to either the wheels or the water propeller, most
individuals will associate the idea with perpetual motion and will
claim that the vehicle cannot possibly travel faster than the
wind.
The writer has always claimed that such a vehicle can be built and
operated successfully. The technical part of this paper serves to
analyze the performance of such a vehicle, and performance charts
for typical water and land vehicles are presented. A second part
describes the land vehicle which has been built by the writer and
operated at speeds faster than the wind.
We have NEVER made ANY claim of invention of this device.
Then why are you offended by the fact that the inventor is known,
Airhead? Your boss Rick Cavallaro insists that he came up with the
idea independently. Why?
The problem, Airhead, is that you are running around the Internet
giving everybody the impression, if not explicitly stating (who
knows), that you invented the device, without any sort of
disclaimer. Try reading the post you just replied to, or simply do
a Google Internet search for this criteria.
inventor Cavallaro "faster than the wind"
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. Let's bring this bloviator down once and