The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-06-21
A uo,o- Of Perpetual Notion.

NUTuG UF " GIGANTIC. INlosFAEAbLt. AND
PEarEI-M MuTIoN." But sTEoSGLT srG-
ErNg STEAM.
Tler. i. on exhibition ~ le Chambers
street. oI, oi ,le many curious machines
U1l have been made to utilize The force
o.. --7ri-a-i1u. j., inventors. Messr, Pe-rl
l lrae'... rlU &c gigantic, lneomn1r-
l.e perpetual motor The h0D p.ss ult-1
r' .llui,L.' and various other rc~ound-
tr- names. DO consist. ~ two very large
wheel, which reyoive Iu opposite direction,
and am hung about four niche, au1rr.
Nrlu the circumference ~ each wheel
are seven division. or sections IN which
il. Uad. q wood roll. freely. The SEE
tou b shaped iu such . way that when the
tll is i-~c-udine r. j. carried on the radius
clos. ia rle Circumference. but when
a.e-ui.u- r 8, carried about halfway be-
tween tlc centre and circumference.
Ile machine apparently depends Tor lis
qowe- lVon thf falling Of : ball weighing
-,r pound. = distance OF i've feet. Ini,
power ul- f0 overcome the friction - the
machine. which. although slight. must De-
considered. aud j. ie>sened iy tae friction
~ tle IAN, themselves - they pass along
o. gutter, prepared for them. What r.
mans l. said iO be- sufficient o. cause The
wheel. to rcyolye. More than that.
there il o belt running from q pulley.
o .llillr pulley, upon q cider-pTe>s, au0
another belt which turns q gayly-decorated
So ~ arms When the reporter o the
Hor.l requested one u the proprietOrs to
remove rhi, first belt be refused upon the
ground that il would take too long and that
Oh wheels would then reyOive - rapidly
tlli they would throw the balls al over the
room. While n i impossible 20 say that
,as Arge wheels are run by The belt from
tle cid-r-press il j. equally impg. siDle %
so that ihe cider-prcs- l. rtln os the motor.
4, tLs two wheels are geared together
they may, for the purposes 81 inquiry, D.
re-arded a. one. and Il l. certain that no
arrangements NJ weights would even turn
one wheel There would be between them
q point where the action and reaction
would he fhe sdns. and the machine would
stop heIAer the motive-power be- az
Pied through the belt from the cider-press
OF b. concealed 20 The machinery, Il l. cer-
IAN taai b i- applied somewhere.
Il wa, upon the principle used hy the
exhibitors that all Oi the experimentation
nlselia-, from the tune o. De Honecourt
Del g. fifteenth century % thar % the Mar
GUS " Worcester in the eighteenth, were
constructed. Zach - their projectors
WORKED IN the direction q utilizing The
Increased eject upon the fulcTun OF .
huger lever. and taking for granted
ta-i tbe axis O, q wheel represented
iu.crum. they endeayoTeG % arrange
IT, APPARATUS In such . way a. 10
cause the weight 70 ~ furthest frotn
IT, axis while descending aud nearer
vA..e ascending. Caprss. Of BOsogna. IN
vented 2 machine in 1915 which consisted
% wheel upon the circumference 81
Which weights attached % small arms were
aingeG. His theory was that a. the ma
chine turned. the falling weight would h.
carried By tlse arm 20 greater distance
from LIE ceutre--eiying > longer radius
and thereby turn the u heel. In the machine
invented by the Marquis u Worcester. en-
nOu balls were Used, which, rolling 10
aud out, il Wa hoped would produce the
desired effect. In all ~ these, however.
aud In MANY other similar machines, Il " q
found that there wac always a point al
which slle machine would balance and mo-
ton would ease In other words, under
the third law % mechanics ncre was Rl-
VANS t.oinf whcre action and rexcgiOH Ia
came esItlai, When this law WIS demon
sfraied is Newton In his PriHeiyiG, /. va.
acknowledged by al that Il plsl On end
10 the theory of the Possibility O.
perpetual ns<al0n IN mechanics. Force
ar energy, however, waS not then under.
stood. Zach manifestation. such ~ heat
Wa supposed 10 be individual or separate
and wzs regarded - ''fuid." kgalogd