The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-21
LATEST IN PERPETUAL MOTION,
a Man in Oneida Pretends to Have
Discovered the Secret.
From The Syracuse Herald.


From the Syracuse Herald.
For the last twenty years David jennings,
Of Oneida has been try ng to so We perpst-
ual motion. He has had his model in oper-
alton for several days in the Evans House.
The workings of the machine have been
witnessed by at least a thou and people,
representing points as far distant as Phila-
de phia, New York, Boston and Chicago.
AT the time the reporter aud artist Wis
tied Mr.. jennings at his model room and
workshop he said he had numerous offers ct
fabulous sums for an interest in his ilven-
tion.
In thecenter Of the room stands the ninety
seventh model that Dir. Jennings has ex-
perimeuted upon. The invent was not
loath to allow an examination Of tie ma
chine, and he proceeded TO set his motor in
mo,ion.
Tue machine is suspended In a wooden
frame about 9 feet long. 2 feet wide, and
feet high, and is in the form OF an endless
chain which RUS in the figure Of a tri-
angle over tnree pulleys leaving three
spaces or grades TO pass over, one going
down, another up, and t4ird about on a
level The line traversed is nearly like tbs
framework of a harp st nding upright
The down line Of the chain is NJ arly as long
as the other two. The links are about .
inches in length, and are almost in the
shape of a triangi. At the top of tue
frame is located no main pulley. over which
the chain runs. II is attached to a small
shaft, which is geared TO fly wheel about
3 feet in circumference, and which, Mr..
Jennings said, could be made TO make about
l,0OO revolutions minute.
The links of the chain are so made with
automatic working hooks that as they move
over the wheel at he top and begin to de-
.cend the hooks catch up every other link
and make a double chain of it. The links
are held in place until each one begins to
turn to 90 Up. when the hook drops out and
the chain moves by single links. Nj. Jen-
nings says that the weight going up is only
about half that Wien going down. The
increased weight downward serves TO pull
the single link chain up and around the two
sides of the triangle, the inventor SAYS.
The main pulley wheel on top is crmpo ed
Of two disks, upon the outer edge of which
rest the axles which run through the links
of the chain, and which it supports as tho
chain runs over the wheel. The CHAIN must
be properly hooked by baud before it can
be started on its first perpetual motion tour,
il is said. II is claimed that the machine
now on exhibition is about one-telth horse
power
> To start the motor Mr.. Jennings removed
q small pin located on an upper corner of
the frame, an apparently the chain started
off on its triangular tour without any
power. and gradually gained momen un.
Mr.. Jennings stepped to the opposite side Of
the frame and regulated the motion with
sma brake.
at has been twenty-one years since I
built my first model to try aud solve tina
perpetual motion problem" said Mr..
Jennings, "and since that time | have
spent more than $4,000 in my experiments
l have built ninety seven moiels, and ex-
perimented ON more than sixty different
principles"
In reference to securing a pate1t on his
invent n, Mr.. Jenni g said: 1.-THE papers
are in washington, and my Syracuse at
possible.