Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-24
PERPETUAL MOTION.
Manchester Man Thinks He Has the
 Marvellous Secret.

South Manchester, April 24.-Wil- liam Forsyth, who lives with Robert
 Mclaughlin at the corner of South Main and Sunset streets, is the in- ventor of a machine which not only shows that perpetual motion is pos sible, but also places it in use as a
 motive power. When seen ty re-
 porter yesterday MT Forsyth was not
 at first inclined to talk on the mat
 ter, as he has not yet had his inven-
 tion patented, although he has al-
 ready taken the first steps in that
 direction and has consulted a Hart
 ford lawyer on the matter. He was
 afraid that, should he go too far in
 his description of the work 1t would
 be possible for some other person to
 take his ideas and put them into op-
 eration, and, should it then come to
 a test as to the proper owner of the patent, he might lose in the legal fight, as he is only laborer working for $1.50 a day. The invention, he stated, was the result of three years work, during which he had spent all of his spare time and about all of his spare money in trying to get it per fected. About month ago he was rewarded by seeing his idea carried into effect and when his last touches were put on he found that it would do just as he expected it would. The first test came when he stated the machine in motion and d line of shafting was driven at a high rate of speed for forty-eight hours. In order to stop it he found it necessary to use plank as a lever, but since that time he has added brake and he can now stop the machine without much trouble, and it can be started by the weight of finger.
 Since boyhood, he said, he had been interested in engines and power but did not have the opportunity to go along with the work which he liked best. He is a native of Ireland and after coming to this country a few years ago he continued his ex- perimenting and is now a student oi engineering in correspondence school. For days and nights he thought it would be possible to &C., complish the feat which thousands have tried and failed in. Idea after idea would come to him and be tried but only to prove a failure. One night he said, while asleep after a long evening of experimenting, he had dream. In the dream he saw where he had made mistakes and how they could be changed. The dream was SC vivid in his mind the next morning that he decided to see if ht could not carry into operation the idea thus conveyed. He went to work and now states that he has accomplished the end and that he has discovered the way for perpetual motion being used as a commercial force. In his invention there are three balls, each weighing, he states, about 14 pounds. These are so arranged that they can be started by the. gentle push of one finger. As they get going they at tain a high rate of speed in a very short time. There is a contrivance. just what it is he will not at this time state. that makes it possible for him to transmit the power thus secured by the rotation Of the ball. to a pulley which in turn runs a line of shafting.
 At his home he has rigged up a line of shafting and it was this line that was kept running for 4S hours when the final test came. When the balls, which really furnish the power. get going. he throws in a clutch pulley and this starts the other part of the invention in oper- ation- Mr Forsyth figures that the machine which he has invented can furnish between three and four horsepower and that with little trouble. or by building other ma chimes along the same lines as his. but in equal proportions. the horse power can be greatly increased. The engine which he has invented eov- CTS a space four feet by seven feet and stands three feet high. The amount of the weight of iron which the engine runs Is a Ift le over goo pounds Just as, soon as he Eets his patent straightened out he wfIII give a demonstration of his invsn- ton. but for the present has del