The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-01-02
Perpetual Motion.

Mr.. Robert T. Haveus, of DAYTON
Ohio, brother of Rev. Mr.. Haveas, late O
Bloomington, claims 20 have invented per
petual motion. We find in the Daytor
Journal description of the machine, which
We publish, merely as a curiosity, ard not
because we have any idea that the old sci.
entific chimera Of perpetual motion has re.
ally been accomplished. Machines which
apparently solved the problem have repeat
edly been invented, but always proved fail
ures at last, and we cannot anticipate any
better fate for the preset one.
The Journal says Mr.. Havens is a self
| made man, of much natural ability, who has
| devoted several years of study and expert
ment to the subject He claims to have dis
covered that the Newtonian law of gravita-
ton IS fallacy, and that the planets are
Kept In motion by the continual action of
attraction and repulsion.
The Journal continues:
Mr.. Havens has succeeded in communi-
eating continued motion to a magnetized
body from the attraction and repulsion of
the magnetic poles. The production of such
motion is not confined to one particular ad-
Justment OF the magnets, but can be accom-
plished by several methJds. Having wit
messed some of his experiments we will un.
dertake to illustrate the manner and give the
hypothesis Of Mr.. Havens.
" A common horse shoe magnet, or
common magnet Is placed in a vertical posi-
ton; and magnetized body is suspended
over 1t obiiquely on pivot so that it may
freely describe circle, ellipsis or any other
curve; the lower pole of the suspended bo-
dy is brought near the similar pole of the
magnet, and off it starts, but it does not stop
as one would suppose who is deeply i'm
pressed with the philosophy that attraction
and repulson of the same magnet would
produce an equilibrium. 1t continues to re-
volve. The adjustment required for conti-
nued motion is to hang the suspended body
so that its lower end may revolye thin the
centre of attraction and without the centre !
of repulsion. Mr.. HaveDs shows by his ex-
periments that there is point within the /
circle of repulsion where the tendency to /.
move is equal in all directions. That if the /
same poles are placed near each other in !
that centre there is no norepulsion-the bodies /
Will remain at rest. Ii the moving magnet /
is suspended over the fixed magnet centrally /
It viii in describing a revolution pass
through the centres of attraction and repul-
sion, and hence soon cease TO move, but if so
suspended as to move outside of the centre
Of one and inside Of the centre Of the other
i TeCci'es Ccntlnueu lpetus-suIHcleEt 10
balance all opposing forces. AnC moreover,
he moving magnet adjusts itself to the size
md power Of the magnetic forces and takes
hat position in revolving which gives it a
steady velocity, and there it sustains a mo-
ion, neither increased or diminished-.hat
s in the aggregate-in parts of its orbit its
notion is greater than in other parts-and
Is orbit is not a circle-but an ellepsis-
This motion is illustrative Of the motion OF /
he earth around the sun.
Mr. Havens has also succeeded in pro-
iucing continued motion which illustrates
he diurnal motion Of the earth. ."-Bloom-
ngtoR Paragraph.