The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-28
ALLEGED PERPETUAL. MOTION.
Curious Machine of Man Whose Name La
Not Yet Known to Fame.
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Special Correspondence.l

present residing in this city, and yet his
name is unknown beyond mere local
lines. refer to Joseph Conday, a re-
served man, difident one withal, who
owes his obsctrity to the fact that he
prefers the quiet of his study to the tu-
mult of o public career.
Mr.. Conday was born in Buda-Pesth
in 1910, and came with his parents to
this country in 1851. The family set
tied in New York city, where the senior
Conday died few years later, bequeath-
ing to his wife and only child-Joseph-.
a comfortable fortune. !
Joseph was an eager student from his
early years, and BY the time he was S5
he could converse fuently in five Ian
guages-German, italian, Spanish, Eng
lish and French. He was also profoundly
versed in mathematics, astronomy and
geology, and could quote the best
thoughts of the best thinkers in poetry
and prose-his memory being simply
phenomenal
On the death of his mother in 1880, he
returned to his Hungarian home, but
came back to the United States in 1890,
and since then he has devoted the whole
of his time and attention to solving the
problem Of perpetual motions problem
that the scientists are almost a unit in
declaring to be insoluble.
was introduced to Mr.. Conday by a
mutual friend one day recently and
found him to be tall, slender man of
nervous mold, with severely classic
features, bright, black eyes, black, wavy
hair, gentle smile and most gracious
mien.
After the conversation had drifted in
conventional channel for spell said,
81 understand you are trying to demon
strate that perpetual motion can bereal-
ized."
eyes, and Twill soon startle the world
with my discovery. 1t is very simple.
The most remarkable thing connected
with it is the fact that it was never
thought of before particularly in this
electrical age. The savants have been
teaching for centuries that perpetual
motion was a dream and delusion.
This set me to thinking, and soon saw
the fallacy Of their position-saw that
since the primal planets were rolled into
space until this day the whole solar sys-
tenn has been in perpetual motion-a mo
ton as faithful and forceful now as it
was in the beginning-if there ever was
a beginning.
ssThe sun, the moon, Arcturus, Orion
and all the immortal procession of the
starsZaye, the very orb beneath our
heels-have filed forward in their orbits
without pausing once for the flight of
flying moment, for if there had been
one stop or stay a universal cataclysm
and chaos would have followed.
'sThe heat at the center of the earth is
caused by electricity in perpetual mo-
ton. Electricity in perpetual motion
permeates the universe It is life. Let
it cease and there will be rest-or death
to all created things.
"Having realized this tremendous
truth, began studying electricity in all
it's forms and phases as far as it is COM
prehensible to the finite mind. I read
all that has been written on the subject,
and then began to make original ex-
periments. But come to my workshop,
where can explain more clearly"
I followed him to little by street
just west of the state capitol building
followed him to the second floor of a
modest brick building. In a front room,
Uttered with all sorts of mechanical de-
vices, was a long bench between two
windows. On this bench was a round
brass plate 10 feet in diameter and rest
ing on four iron rods each 2 feet high.
On the plate was leaden globe, weigh
ing at least 10 pounds, and this globe
was spinning round and round in a
groove at rate that fairly made my
eyes ache as I looked.
"Now," said Mr.. Conday, '.if you look
more closely, you will see that this plate
is divided all the way round the groove
the rim being upheld by these post"
tapping the four rods Of iron-''and the
body Of the plate being upheld bythis
iron shaft. If you look still more close
ly, you will see that this globe is circled
by narrow steel belt that slips as the
globe makes its circuit and that this belt
is connected with the machinery under
the plate"-pointing to a lot Of pulleys,
wheels, etc., that were whirling round
and round at rate that made my senses
reel.
s'That machine has been in perpetual
motion day and night, night and day,
since the hour set it going, and that
was on the 18th of May, 1922
"What is the motive force?' queried.
ELECTRICITY"
"But how harnessed? Is the machine
connected With
tsIt is connected with nothing. Watch!"
and he lifted the instrument from the
table. s'Does it look like it was con-
nected with some outside dynamo or any
thing else?"
I was forced to confess that it didn't.
"But," went on, 'swhat then is the Sc
cret of it's motion? I mean, what new
principle in the application of electricity
is here in forcew
81 am not ct liberty to tell until have
secured patent. have interested sew
eral capitalists in the instrument, and
we will be ready for business in due