The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22
A VETERANS
DISCOVERY
Old Soldier Claims to Have
Found Perpetual Motion.
is At SOLDIERS HOME
What Mr.. W. E. Chamberlain Has to
Say About His ntlon-He is
Man With an Excellent War
Record.
is AT SOLDIERS HOME

Veteran w. Z. Chamberlain. now at the
Soldiers Home. Is satisfied that he has
solved tho long-sought problem OF perpet-
voted his time and his brain to tho work
OF solving the problem.
Around him In his room at the Home are
crude models Of his work Of the brain
com bined with mechanical genius. Mr..
hambcrlain Is a practical cabinet-maker,
end 1t was while at work at his trade
that the idea took possession OF him, and
since he has grown too feeble for hard
manual work, his brain has been active,
and while his fellows at the Home en-
gagged themselves in reading and smoking
and gossiping. he put forth his mental
energies In perfecting his model.
The model Is about as crude as could
be. It consists of a number Of curious
pieces of pasteboard and 2 pencil diagram
on large sheet OF paper. At intervals
the pieces of pasteboard are rivete6 with
collar buttons.
AN ACTIVE BRAIN.
Although Mr.. Chamberlain has passed
the allotted age, his face Is as ruddy, his
eyes as bright and his brain as active as
those Of man OF forty.
IT served my time as cablnet-n,aker at
John "a. Belvin's in 1S45, = he said to a
Times. Dispat ch reporter, who sat on tho
although went through some pretty
hard fighting during the war, was never
once struck by q bullet. had my foot
cut open. though. while assisting in throw
Ing up the works In front OF Petersburg"
Mr.. Chamberlain was In the Thirty
eighth Battalion, stribbling's Battery Of
Artillery, and went through the battles
at Petersburg. Suffolk. Plymouth, Will
Transport and elsewhere. =
Mr.. Chamberlain was In the battles
around Suffolk; he was at the battle Of
plymouth, he helped to drive Butler to
Bermuda Hundreds; he was In hard
battle at Williamsport. He was at Cold
| burg from his arrival to Its fall. He
won President Davis hundred-dolla gold
bond by not asking q furlough In 1864
He is native of Norfolk and lived
In farewell nineteen years before coming
to Richmond. He Is firmly convinced that
his invention is the correct thing. and he
| thinks it is something the world will ap-
preciate. The great obstacle in his way
! is the lack Of funds to push the matter.
| He is anxious to get into communication
With persons who desire to go into the
scheme with him, and he says he is pre-
pared to show any craftsman. mechanical
engineer or any other person the FEAST
| blity Of his Idea.
There are great many people
throughout the civilized world at work On
| what Is called perpetual notion" said
Mr.. Chamberlain. when they read what
| am going to state. they will discover
that I have found new idea.
after thirty-four years labor I have
| developed what is known In mechanics
as perpetual motion. I know this state
ment will give scientists a big laugh. but
will knock that out Of them by telling
them that I not only have the motion,
| but have the greatest power wheel the
| world has ever seen. In its action It
represents an undershot Wheel reversed.
| with this advantage. can use a hun
dred-foot shaft and a hundred-foet
diameter. can use an ounce weight
| I can work on mountain or
small desert, with nothing but oil to
( Intricate the bearings. The machine is
| Of simple construction and will run all
stationary machinery.
| "For the manufacture Of electricity
| yon can place your power where most
desired. I can pull half OF the diameter
| use an incline plane for short space
desired. On the hosting side of the wheel
use an incline plane for short space;
| then use what I call helper, which
| does not cost me anything to carry,
and I hoist the weights to the center at a
cost OF about 9ne-eighth Of my power
thus leaving me full power OF an tln-
| dershot wheel"
| Mr. Cham berlafn is anxious to COM
municateawith some expert craftsman
| who4willt enter into the scheme with him
! and help push the invention to g finish
.NDING DECEMBER 81, 1902 OF THE con-
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