[MR] Do these things work?

[Jim Looper]

You could disguise the battery as one of the "Bagdad Batteries", then use 
the "air screw" of Da Vinci slightly modified (which was actually conceived 
in India or China, depending on source). Granted, it would look more along 
the lines of Steampunk (or Gaslight Fantasy), but would be a bit closer to 
being perceived as period(esque).

L~
Necessity is the Mother of Invention. However, once the necessities are 
taken care of, then Indolence takes up foster care...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at infionline.net>
To: "The Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Cc: "Ceara ni Neill" <ceara at HouseBarra.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] Do these things work?


At 03:55 AM 6/12/2008 -0500, CEARA wrote:

>I know it's discouraging to find something that seems like a great idea
>but isn't rated for our purposes...but it also makes us start thinking
>about other possibilities. As they say, necessity is the mother of
>invention--and that's the fun part!

Two suggestions:
         1) If you want to be period, all you need is a slave to wave a fan
at you.  The fan design may vary according to the culture of your persona;
design of slaves has long been standardized.
         2) If you insist on an electric motor
instead of a slave, what you need
is a solar-power setup with a 12-volt
output.  The solar array doesn't actually
have to run the fan, merely recharge the battery.  This will cost you at 
least
a hundred bucks (or considerably more), if prices haven't changed too much
since I last researched a similar prospect.
-- YIS,
-- Britton