New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-03

wheels
There are those who indulge visions Of rolling
balls land their cognates) set to Whiri rouha
inclined rings and tables, and expected 70
rather momentum enough in descending TO
carry them up to and overthe starting points
and as necessary result, to keep on rolling
Unfortunately, some slight matter has always
been wanting, and it is not yet found out Oy
these artists.
So, also, with Centrifugal Power; wheels
once set agoing are to increase in velocity till,
like bursting planets or grindstones, their ma
terials cannot hold them together, and thelr
very authors fly from them in alarm. we
Joined a party, several years ago. to witness
the operation of a centrifugal machine in a
small wooden building. 1t was worked oy
hand; the fly was of the primitive form
heavy balls on the ends of separate arms Inc
crank was turned till, Of sudden, the arms
and balls we're thrown, one toward the roof, and
others against the netherlands and windows.
We rushed out unipjured, and the inventor with
US. He inquired triumphantly what we thought
of that, and wondered at our declining to pur-
chase interests in the discovery Of his Power
Generator.
That velocity can be increased without cor
responding consumption Of power is an old
form of the perpetual-mOtion problem, and
like all its kindred ia figure of straw and
wind. dressed out and set on its legs by
arguments, and knocked over and demolished
by facts, All our working mechanisms oppose
it, and though it has been petulantly said, they
ought not" how are they to be induced to be-
come more complacent Let the proposition
be Intercepted as everypractical one ought to
be, by experiment, and it tells the truth. Neg
lect thi. test and you are in danger of believing
a le In one thing at least, artificial machines
are akin to living ones-the faster they run
the sooner theytire. Machines have beensetu up
to contradict this expression of a universal law {;
and on trial they have started of easily like
race-hOrses,a and been quickly urgednto sweep
ing gallop but sooR as the lash laid aside, in
stead ofgoiDg on swifter and swifter, they gradu-
ally slackened into canter, trot, walk, and
at last stood notwithstanding the truth in
the faces of all present.
Another and more agreeable phase of much
the same principle may be contemplated in the
devices of those who dream of resilient balls
light, elastic, airy leapers-which dropped per
pendicularly on rebounding floors are invited te
spring back as high as from whence they fell
When they do this they will without difficulty
and as matter of necessity continue their sal
taticns--there would be no stop to the dancing
| And could they be made to ascend the veriest
trihe above the spot they drsp from, they
would rise in time above the clouds and finally
leave the planet altogether-reversing the
common action Of gravity which makes all
earthly things csave to the bosom Of theil
mother From her they have to be foreibly taker
and even then can only be momentarily kept
from her. There might be some difficulty IL
converting this kind of motion to practical pur
poses but it could undoubtedly be overcome
Nor have eclectics engaged in this search beer
more fortunate than others, although still al
fecting pity for such as spend their means
living, and the best part of their lives in d vin
at one place for what must DO dug out of sey
eral places.
A number of experimenters, worn out b.
disappointments, abandoning all hopes of sue
cess from the foregoing schemes, unable TO en-
dure longer suspense and determined to en-
their troubles, 20 straight to the apothecar.
and purchase drugs enough to extinguish
dozen lives. BE not alarmed, they don't Blu.
with q view to swallow them, but, as
final attempt, TO ascertain if virtue can befoun'
in them to bring up the spirit they seek
Something has whispered that it may be lyin
perdue in acids, alkalies and such things a
chemists deal in, that little copper, zinc an
aqua.fortis, few yards of wire and piece
soft iron may peradventure have the power &
bring it forth Indeed these and kindre
things did at one time excite strong hopes, an
BY some ardent seekers have not yet been abar
dOned.
Still among the disappointed there hare bee
suicides. 1t is melancholy reflection that i
this wild chase, through what might be Gale
trackless wastes, many victim has fallen; an
victims whose bleached bones serve not a
warnings, for still there are those who, unabl
to bear up under invariable defeat, plunge int
the vortex Of despair. Because they canno
find that which does not exist, and therefor
is not to be found, they foolishly and wicked
put an end to themselves, for not even so muc
as an ienis fatuus,
But of the victims that immediate thenselve
to experimentation idols, there are those VIII
neither die by the rope, knife or water, nor b
being broken down with grief, but from th
heart suddenly bursting with JOY. With SONS