The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-01-13

exert inOuSdnd times more uec0mpOSlDg
force than that which is equivalent 10 keep
up the mechanical! force Tor moving the he
Ices. He can therefore apply one part ol
bis resultant force TO keep up his productive
force, and have nine hundred and ninety
nine parts left clear-so much that has cost
him nothing. t1q4
q Hereis perpetual motion with witness
perpetual motion to all intents and pur'
poses-perpetual motion beyond the mos
IsaDguine dreams Of lis craziest pursuer.-
Here the great element Of life is chained
! tanned and subjected 10 the dominion o.
man as completely as the wind or the water
ever were. The consequence of this dis
coyery are enough to upset the soundest in
tellect. 1t must make a revolution In
science and in society, 1t puls society un-
der new conditions, bysyirtue Of which a
hundrcd things may easily happen. which we
now think impossible. Wealth may loose
its influence and tyranny Its motive. E.
mancipa,ed from physicallabof in SC great
measure and insured SO much higher de-
gree Of physical comfort, the race may ad-
vance in moral culture and development
more in one generation than it otherwise
would ina thousand years. Given light,
heat and power, free as the water, and we
are armed against all other wants, and for
titled against all enemies.
The consequences are so overwhelming
that it seems impossible to believe them
Yet they all result irresistably from facts
which the testimony Of our senses oblige us
to believe We saw, examined and handled
the secrets Of Mr.. Paines hlices and the pc
culiar tlcctrodc necessary to give full! effect
to SO potent current. We saw, as no one
could help seeing, how, if the common
helices would do anything, these would do
infinitely more. We could now easily con-
struct the apparatus, if SO disposed, and
should have no doubt of lis results. The
results which we witnessed were too abun.
dant an overwhelming to leave the slight.
est doubt that the great desideratum is
achieved. It is far within the limits O
truth TO say that the mechanical power thai
would result from the combustion of The
hydrogen which we saw evolved from wa
ter by turning the helices one minute would
continue TO turn them an hour. nay, tuker
IN connection with the oxygen which nigh
have been evolved at the same time, i
would have been able to lift the man whit
turned, up through the roof, and would hav,
been fully equal to the solution Of that cele
bra!ed problem-to lift ones self by tn
waistband.
Regarding water henceforth as the only fue
of the civilized world, we feel exceedingly aux
ious that our city should seize the opportunit
before monopoly has laid hold of it, to add thi
splendid use of The elements to our Cochituat
blessing. Letthe city at once look into the a
fair, and paying the discoverer the sum whic
is Justly his due-or rather that which will Sa
isfy him for the right to use his discovery, so f,
as Boston is concerned, make it the property
, the citizens, as much as the water itself. Or
/. half as much money as we have expended in pr
curing the supply of water, willmake it avail,
BILE for all the purposes Of light and fuel to Il
> whole city-we shall have no more coal ar
wood to import, and our excellent City Ga
t Company whice has probably got back its cap
0 tai several times already, will only have to re
[ ceiye 100000 or so for its pipes and fixture
1t does not matter straw to us how strange
, may be that Mr.. Paine has notsooner introduce
,, his discovery and invention to the world-th
he has not lighted up the Astor House or exhib
tied in Boston-we have seen the thing dor
e and can dol it. The thing which.we have seer
being done, all the rest follws, Of course, as SUI
n as day follows sunrise-Sailing vessels are dri'
!, en- from the ocean-locomotives run witho
i smoke or spark-the entire smoke nuisance, al
4 all dust and ashes, nuisances to boot ceal
n from all civilized cities and habitations. Eve
. portion of the world becomes habitable. Ply
ical darkness is abolished-and we are mist
ken if the moral darkness does not go alol
> with it.
At all events, our gas bills will be lightene
/ for if Mr.. Paine don't gives us bis light after
e reasonable time, we will make some for ou
! selves and enjoy it.