Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-28

III,
There Is man residing in the pretty village Of
hldgetoWn. Ont, who also believes that he
mas the biggest invention ct the century, and
mat all that Is needed to make his fortune can
pc supplied by distnterested capitalists. There
Is L, a. olnei ence. however. between the manner
While Mr.. Keely seeks to mystify everything,
the Ridgetown man tries to make all as clear
as Croton water. The other day reporter Of
tne Detroit Free Press drove out to interview
lowing Is the report OF the conversation that
took place when Mr.. Phillips was found:
II hear you nave perpetual motion ma
II have it, sir, as sure as there Is q Goa In
Heaven" cried Mr.. Phillips earnestly.
ANY objection to our seeing 1t ?'
mot In the least. Come this way" and we
were LED Into small clubhouse, with a mud
noor, from which the water oozed as We
stepped around.
In the center stood an intricate arrangement
''Do you understand all about astronomy,
geometry. philosophy, algebra, trigonometry
ahd every force of nature?" asked Phillips
Certainly" said ], with becoming modesty.
/ I'm newspaper man, you know
futable and undeniable principles"
"All such machines are.
mo. SIR this Is the only one. Now. what are
the obstacles to perpetual notion" said PcIl-
the combination.
principally that the machine doesn't go" he
Not at all. The things to be overcome are
gravity. friction ana the finding of center 70
he system. Now there Is one example of ger.
petual motion that every inventor has oyt r.
lookup. Can yQu tell what 1t Isl"
We gave it up.
"lt Is the solar system that go5s perpet-
ually. If you make q machine on the same
principle as the solar system you have per-
petuSl motion. Don't you see. don't you see?'
"Then this rig OF tanning. mill wheels repre-
sents the solar SYSTEM"
g. The exact counterpart. This center y heel
With 1T are the four great planets. Below is
the earth, with the moon revolving around i5
Gnls DOlt Is Che noon. next Is Venus and next
Mars, all connected together by the cogs as
you see, one above the other"
Three upright double bars Of iron punched
full OF holes stood from floor to ceiling, In line
about about two feet apart, and the wheels were ar
great planets which, by the way, were much
bigger than the sun, had each OF their halves
filled In with lead, which made one hemisphere
much heavier than the other.
"You see." said Phillips, taking one lead
loaded Wheel and liking it SO that 1t would re-
volve. Il put the lead above and let it swing
the lead IL. carries the wheel past the center 70
we can get force that will carry it over the
one eighth the lead will go over the top and
come around again, and then we shall have per-
petual motion, don't you Sae?"
An right; how do you overcome that
well. when this wheel is just ready to cone
up THESE others are just ready to fall, and their
WeightcarIies the first over the center, don't
you see? Then, when the next wheel comes up
the ilrst Is ready to help 1t over the dead point,
why doesn't the machine 90, then?n
NOW, don't you see," Phillips ratified on,
unheedtDg the question, 81 have overcome
gravity by the Arrangement of the loaded
wheels have found the center OF the system
there en0OOh n
the friction, don't you sect"
We didn't see, but Mr.. Phillips showed how
with this perfect instrument he could take his
longitude and latitude at sea and then went on:
Another thing to be found was perfect
number. Can you name perfect number?'
Number one is generally looked on as a
perfect number"
NO; SO is the perfect number. You can
divide it four times and not have an odd num-
Der. don't you see? 96-4S "a ~ G. don you see?
Now On the large wheels there are So cogs, on
next - and next 6; don't you see? Why, it can't
fall its founded On mathematics"
But why doesn't the machine"
NOW, This was shown to me in vision. I
went to DR.. Monroe, of Brucefield Che lives in
Detroit now, and when you go back you can
ask him, and said. Doctor, I've found perpet-
uai motion, and what do you think the doctor
SAID? would you believe that he said would
go crazy II l hunted after perpetual mction?n
we expressed astonishment at such medical
opinion.
hours every night on this machine, and l."
doesn't II go?"
-. 1T ~ VIA go-pretty soon. 1t will revolution
itself?"
1T would go now II 1t was well oiled up"
every now and then turned the crazy conglom-
Grafton Of cogs, which ratified and stopped the
nc ment Dis hand was removed.