The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-06

cry force known has been pressed into the
service. The most usual method employ
ed by would-be inventors OF perpetual mo-
ton is as we have remarked above, SIM
pie wheel with hinged weights round Its
periphery. But there have been many
other ways OF arriving at failure. The in
clined plane, with spheres Of iron running
up and down on Il, or, rather, in a
groove in II, Is also very usual and per-
cussion, magnetism, and electricity have
played important parts in the straining
after perpetual motion.
A curious machine was invented IN
America some time since. 1t acted, or
rather should have acted, by capillary at
traction. A piece of cloth, endless, like
an ordinary roller towel, was so arranged
that one side of II could take up water
from a trough. This would cause the
cloth to shrink. ana so pull up the piece
at the bottom, causing a continuous mo-
ton, claimed the inventor. II didn't. An.
other curious machine was built as fol-
lows: And endless pipe In the shape Of an
oval was stood erect on one side, and
one-half of Il was filled with water, the
other half being empty. Then balls heavier
than air, but lighter than water, were
dropped through the part only occupied
by air, and popped through valve at the
bottom OF tho pipe, so entering the half
OF the tube occupied by water. OF course
D
came through another valve into the air
space, fell down, and repeated the opera
ton There Is great virtue IA an
III" according 10 high authOrl-
", but there was the opposite
In Il IN this Instance. II the water in the
tube had been obliglng enough 70 stay IN
its proper place the perpetual motion
would have been discovered but the water
did not know its place, and so the lngen-
ious contrivance was a failure. A very
simple arrangement was patented IN
America In 1876. II consisted Of a pair OF
cones hinged az their aplces inside. The
patenteo proposed TO run Il on rails In
clined TO each other. There was n space
between the two cones for freight and
passengers, and the principle upon which
the car so formed was 10 run was based
upon the fact that II two cones be placed
upon the planes inclined 10 each other (the
rails In this case) their bases viii tend
10 come together. Gamgoe's famous per-
pctual-motlon machine, which was patent
ed few years ago, was n very clever ar
rangement worked by the alternate COM
preston OF air and water. II really did
work for ten hours at a stretch-that ia, Il
ran, but ala not work. and would have
been perfect but for one little thing. That
tribe was the complete elimination Of fric-
ton. However. the machine was a sue
cess IN one way for patent valve ar
rangemcnt, which was part OF II. was sold
by the inventor for the respectable sum
Of $1,000 pounds
Scientists have for n long time past rec
oRnized the impossibllty OF perpetual mo-
ton. About a hundred years ago the AGA
demlo Hoyalc des Sciences at Paris passed
a resolution that they would no longer cu-
terrain letters upon this subject and they
Included with % the quadrature OF the cir
Gle, the tri-section Of the arc, and the du-
pllcatlon OF The cube. but In spite OF this
there were taken out OF England and
France alone during the ten years ending
1870, no less than ii9 patents for perpetual
motion. II 10 hardly 70 be expected that
tho chovalier dindustrle should keep his