Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-20
PERPETUAL MOTION
Revealed in Dream 10 a French Lad Who
Claims to Have the Machine.

not misplaced, Bddeford will be ia
nous as the home of the discOverer of
perpetual motion, says the BiddefOrd
Record.
Belouin is youth of II who at
present boards at Mrs. Marters, No
IL Laconia block. He is bright,
clean looking young man and he has
| every confidence that the machine
which is to replace all other forms Of
| motive power is now in the patent Of
flee at Washington.
1t is his. Nobody else knows or can
| know anything about it until he gets
| ready to make public his secret.
For two months before he sent it to
Washington it had been running. 1t
was still running when he carefully
shipped it to Washington. 1t is still
running now, to the best of his knowl-
edge and belief
The machine is completely boxed up
and hidden. The inventor has the key
to the lock he put upon it, and this
lock is also Of his own invention and
unlike any other in existence.
All that there is for the public to see
at present is a revolving wheel upon
the outside of the iron box about two
feet long and a foot wide and high.
The secret mechanism within the
iron case will keep this wheel revolv-
ing forever and forever or until the
machine wears out. At least. such is
the faith of young Belouin and he
neither looks nor acts like a dreamer
or a crank
On the contrary he is a most matter
OF fact and practical young man to
judge from both appearance and con-
VerSation. That he is an inventive
genius is certain from the evidences of
his ingenuity upon which his friends
nave been permitted to gaze. These
have only been inventions incidental
to his own ambition of discovering
perpetual motion. or constructing
machine that would run without mo-
tive power until it Wore out.
There are several locks that he has
invented the like of which are not to
be found anywhere, and one of which
has fastened the big chest in which he
has kept his treasure and tools stored
for the last three years.
He has a three wheeled carriage
waiting for the Introduction of cleo
tricity which he believes will be the
most perfect vehicle the world has
ever seen. He is at work on a device
which is to furnish the necessary sup
ply of FRACTIONAL electricity in connec-
ton with his wonderful motor.
There is wonderful cradle which
will rock itself three weeks by an ad-
justment of sliding weights. This
cradle has been seen by others who
say that it will do all that the inven-
tor claims. but he himself has slight
interest in any such trivial inventions
as these.
Young Belouin was born in Bidde-
ford and has a brother and sister here.
When he was a small boy his parents
moved to Canada and took him with
them. He says that as far back as he
can remember he has been interested
in nothing else but mechanics. He
says that he was always thinking
about a machine that would run it
self forever.
One night when he was Is years old
and still living with his parents on a
small farm in Canada, he dreamed
how such a machine might be built |
as he had so long thought about.
After some difficulty he persuaded |
ipS PdACiitS " dllOW .llliLl TO come DdCk L
to Biddeford. Why he wanted to come |
here. was, he says. because he could |
not get the money to buy the tools |
he needed in Canada.
He came to Biddeford and went to
work in the York card room for so cents |
a day and he has worked there since
when the mills have been running, until |
Monday when he concluded that his
prospects warranted him in throwing
up his job.
Day and night, whenever he had any
spare time, he worked upon his inven-
ton.
Nobody, not even his brother or sister
was ever allowed to see what he was
doing. They knew in a general way
that he was working upon some inven-
ton. but did not know just what. He
says himself that he has never made
any talk to anybody in the three years
he. has been at work.
He mas kept everything to himself
until his device was perfected.
He has put every cent he could spare
into tools and says that his sister has
often lectured him for making such q
foolish use Of his money instead of