Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-04-14
Local Intelligence.

4 New INVENTION -That the principle
of perpetual motion exists in the operations
OF Nature there can be no doubt. Bat the
ingenuity of man has, for long time, been
exercised in the invention of plan for its
application to Machinery. We know that it
is an absolute impossibility for any mere hui
man agency to cuntrivc machine which VIII
possess the inherent power to start ITSELF anu
continue its movcmcGts forever, as all matter
is destructiJlc-tle corroding tooth OF lime
eats away everything material. Finite Wis
dom cannot grasp the omnipotencc OF crea-
tive energy. and originate System oil laws,
whose legitimate aud unaidcd influence will
impart life and motion to inanimate matter
for if it could, man might stay the conquer
ing arm of Death, and reverse the motion Of
the Planets wheeling in their spheres sublime !;
or bid chaos itself start into forms of strength
and beauty instinct with life and notion
But it may lay hold of natural laws, and
illustrate them iutclligibly, by means of
peculiar combinations or notifications of the
mechanical powers.
The dcrclopment of the princin1c of perpct-
ual motion has, hitherto, batled the efforts
Of inventive genius, and taxed to its utmost
energies mechanical philosophy. \ machine
which possesses the power to start itself, is, es-
sentially, an unfolding of that principle in
Nature which governs al, her movements. 1t
is the opinion of some that such machine has
been invented; or at least the way is open
ed up to its full and final accomplishment by
a revelation of the operative cause Of cease
less motion. This is accorded to it by thco-
retcal and practical mechanics who have ex-
amined it.
The discovercr of this principle is Noah
I. Tilghman, Esq, q native Of Worcester
county, Nd, who has associated with him, in
the proprietorship of his invention, Nelson
Beall, Esq, one of the most entcrprsing and
energetic citizens Of Allegany county. We
have witnessed the exhibition of this inge-
NOUS piece of mechanicism Frauklin-the
lightning -tamer-s reported to have once
said that If any man should succeed in de-
veloping the principle of perpetual motion
the machinery would be simple. This is GER
tanly simple,
1t consists of four whcels-two of which
revove in a horizontal, and the other two in
vertical, direction. Those revolving holi-
zontally are cog wheels those revolving YER
tically are supplied upon the side with teeth.
so constructed as to fit the cogs of the hori-
zontal wheels The horizontal cog wheels
revove upon shafts, which, respectively, ex-
tend from the center Of the machine to the
top and bottom, and turn in contrary direc-
tons. One vertical wheel is adjusted upon
an axis so as to strike with its teeth the cog
wheels: and the other vertical wheel talso
supplied with teeth upon the side is merely
suspended upon the cog Wheels with more
of its weight on one side Of the center of
motion than on the other, and kept to its pc
sition by several small rollers against which
the outer edge rests.
These things constitute the whole machine
ry. Now, what is its mo,lus opera,diF
Mr.. Iilghmans explanation is, that the
vertical wheel which is suspended upon the
horizontal cog wheels, and revolving without
an axis, is constantly-drawn down by the at
traction of gravitaton and as the greater
part of the wheel is always on one side of
the center Of motion, it must continue to re-
volve as long as the laws of gravity act upon
matter-that it is circular lever, evcrlast-
ingly endeavoring to find u center.
Mr.. Tilghman very courtcously and kind
ly exhibits and explains it to all who desire
see it,
1t is designed, soon, to test its practical IL
tility in its application to the propulsion of
machinery,