Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-01
Ru>; sY CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE
An Invention by SIR. Earnum somethin
n p0rna.uel NATHAN

An Invention by SIR. Earnum Something
like Perpetual Motion
II win be interesting TO many tn u'an1,
o. people in rhi, prominently mech snicsl
age ~ real \ description Of a IA, min, IN =
vented AMI constructsi by Mr. r T. Bar
mum lhat IS fairly entitled to be called a
perpetual motion machine Thi, wonderful!
li;tls machine ran tirelsssly until most
unfortunately burned with Mr. Bar
nuns aaDiSom. residence, Iranistan,
twenty year. ago. Many Of Mr.. Barnum's
friends and visitors OF those days marvslei
why the machine wa, never put on exhibit
ton in his then popular museum in New
York. The reason given at that TINS was
that toe people could mover be msds to be-
bs!isvs either that Mr. Barnum inven:el or
made ths machine. or that it wa. made to
run with .uch simple means. furnishsd by
nature i:,elf Many inventors had visited
Mr. Barnun. AMI many others had written
70 him urging him 20 buy mach 70, that
they claimed could be described in the pub
lie PRINTS a, perpetual motion, All, indeed
Mr. Barnam purchased more than one o.
such ma chimes for his museum bat n. r..l.i
never bring himself to believe OF ir,-s lat
. machine could not b, mad. ~,uli
run from it, finish unit u =, >, u I'D with
out trick
In fact. he urge. twenty ilht resrs ago.
when mechanics was in ii. infancy, AMI the
papers wers constantly di-cu-,ir. tae prob
lem Of perpetual motion, that 81 b ma
chino could be made. AMI mads - e. per
petually. His first idea. a. exilaiA-i 10 the
writer, was TO utili.e IN co.v,ni,n: and
simpls form the power 81 -xlnr.iou AMI
IN all nj - .. Stae
the difference in ths natural tam 1erature
between night and day walls ., .l.a isn't
IL properly applet, - run NJ, Contemplated
machins nom the moment & WA flushed
until its motion had worn its-lf cut
Tbs bass Of Mr. Barnurn's IN Ain, vas
made Of siass, somethinS in tie sa-;- Of a
pill box, sight inchs. in diameter ~ three
inche. deep This bsss WAS file W., uu.ck-
silver. There -. opening IN -. esnter
and top o; ets bass about half an IN in di-
araetsr. A gas tubs Of shs san. diameter
o. the ess, and six inches long as IN
9rtsi In tse middle Of the hole =, t,et when
The hea. cf midday caused the quicksilver
70 expand, IL would rise up through t.s tube
and force piston upward. On the top o:
The piston rod was Pisced abou, fivc rounds
Of lss5. When tie temperature cculc; the
metal contracted in the hass and tube. and
the phora ~as made 10 follow the 9nicksil-
yer IN the tube That gave the piston . re-
drrccal mctic- Gear wheels ernnectcd
win the vertical piston rci gave high SPEED
- TIE four-inch ~ wheel and TIE rnscbins
was couplsss. A movement Of l-icn1 Of
IN ncA 81 the piston rod gave
.ctioa r. IRE periphery Of the
fy Wheel 81 seventeen iachc. 20 the rairute
which VS. quit. enough to ,kor eha. the
machine ~ss n motion II nv recollection
nc. 81 fault, ;hs ~ wheel va. s.cured to
ite sha:: BY siisht friction only. - thst 4
the exact time 1t ehsnSs 81 motion Of the
piston rod the wheel would alp On ies shafs
and continue It's motion until tbs motion Of
IT seaft vas reversed. when IN due time the
Wheel vuuli ss,P and instantly reverse III
Motion. and % on. OF cour,s ether mechAn-
ical devic-s could b applied IN this coansc.
Son which would Gauss the wheel to rotate
one way. nc msts~ vticA NV ~ 'pise,n
rod Travelled
The machine rar constantly from the mo-
meat 10 wss discovered until IN was de-
snysi sy Gre, -four yssn After NJ
Rsrnum shiaks that shs future clock viii b
% constructed that shs eAangss IN tempsr.-
turs between day and night VII Wind Il
aad wind u Gsuiy. viahus sntis ~