The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-07-27
HASN'T GIVEN 1T UP YET.
A York County Man Devoting His Life co
Studying Perpetual Motion.

Samuel P. Fall, an East Lebanon her
nit. has for more than forty years been
trying to discover method of applying
perpetual motion.
His latest device of perpetual motion had
a large pulley set in a standard. 10 the
outer SUI face of the pulley are attached
number of tubes containing quicksilver,
which acts as floating weight in each
tube. AS the pulley reyolVes system OF
mechanism holds tho tubes extended on
one side, while as they rise on the other
side, the same mechanism allows them to
unlock automatically and hang pendant,
Mr.. Falls idea being that the tubes
present less resistance when hanging
than when extended.
AS the tubes pass the apex of the pulley
the quicksilver flows gently down the
inclining tubes, constantly adding to
their weight as they 60 Mr.. Fall believes
that if he can succeed in governing the
weight accurately he will be able to over
come the dead center. The other idea
that he describes is what he terms a
double cross, the arms impartiug motion
by means of weights, the whole governed
by the central portion above the arms.
This he believes is certain TO prove sue
cess as soon as he is able to overcome the
dead centre.
Mr.. Fall gets most of his ideas on per-
petual motion in dreams and visions. He
says forty years aga he was sitting in a
chair in his kitchen sort of dreaming and
staring vacantly at the clock on the wall
when he was astonished to see the usually
we'll behaved old timekeeper winding
itself up.
'tThen and there he says, there ap-
peared unto me a man. l know not
whence he came nor whittier he went
but I saw him as distinctly as l see you
now, and he said to me; 4 am Calico,
and am going to give to you that
motion. am going away now for seven
long, long years..
GAS he said this, he waved his hand
slowly above his bead, and saying: But
I shall return, vanished as he had come.
81 stared at the clock and meditated,
trying to reason and explain the meaning
of this visit. 1t came to me all in an in
slant, like flash of lightning, that had
been selected from among all others to
solve the problem of perpetual motion.
and even after all these years Of labor
that have passed have never lost faith
in that promise.
81 WAS then exceedingly ignorant, but
had in my youth learned to read and
write. I began to study the Bible. I was
not then a believer in it's teachings, but
the more I read and studied the more
believed. pored over its pages night and
day. and have discovered among other
things that it was written by one man
from Genesis to Revelations.
kE' Shorty after the appearance Of my
strange visitant I felt peculiar sensation
in my head. It was as though was be-
ing sprinkled with water, and I am now
satisfied that it was water, water from
the fountain of knowledge. I wal. being
prepared for the work that am destined
to accomplish.
ST have written great deal. and have
several times copied the BibIe, chapter
after chapter, explaining the mysteries as
wrote, until all is as clear to me as the
air we breathe. The manuscript that I
have down in that old house there would
make a load for this pair of horses. 1t is
all in poetry, but it is in crude form. In
future years I shall copy the best of it
and write book. Although am not a
believer in spiritualism, do believe that
the dead can communicate with the
living, but it must be through third
party, messenger, SO to speak. I sec
many things in visions.
"Once l had been for many months at
work on piece of mechanism that I
fondly hoped would reveal to me the
secret of perpetual motion, but one night
a man appeared in vision and directed
me to bury the fruits of my labor.
dared not do otherwise. In the early
morning went out and followed his bid
ding. / have never yentured to work up
on the same principle since. Had con-
tinued I feel certain that success would
have crowned my efforts, but perhaps I
was wrong and he knew better than I.
Anyway, it is beneath the soil, and I
alone know where.
mot very long ago had vision, in
which say table extending toward the
rising sun, as far as the eye could reach.
There was no food upon the table, but
on either side sat hosts of men. Their
number must have been very great. At
the head of this table there were three
vacant chairs. Then there appeared a
man who was familiar to me. one whom
1 knew had failed in business. When he
had seated himself at the head of the
table, there were no vacant chairs, but 1
was provided with chair and given a
small portion of food at side table.
sThis vision represented to me that the
men at the table were those who had
struggled with the problem of perpetual
motion, and the placing of my neighbor
at the head of the table was to show me
that all had failed. alone was allowed
to partake of food. This I consider in the
nature of direct message to me to per-