He was an extraordinarily talented inventor and engineer – this can still be seen today in the Nymphenburg Palace Park. At the same time, Joseph von Baader from Munich was also very talented in the art of making enemies.
You can say that this machine works stoically. Like a perpetual motion machine, the cast-iron balance beams rock in a constant rhythm, the piston rods move up and sideways, while the water wheels turn down in the shaft. It’s as if the heavy iron pieces were dancing with each other, going up and down, to the left, to the right and in circles, but nothing crunches, scratches or squeaks, only a monotonous whirring can be heard and sometimes the gurgling and splashing of the water underneath Machine flowing channel.