. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. 370 PERPETUAL MOTION. 926. PERPETUAL MOTION. French, 1858. The inventionconsists in communicating a rotary motion to a fly wheel or drum by means of a set of falling weights tied to-gether by chains, ropes, or straps. Thisset of weights, forming an endless chain,runs
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. 370 PERPETUAL MOTION. 926. PERPETUAL MOTION. French, 1858. The inventionconsists in communicating a rotary motion to a fly wheel or drum by means of a set of falling weights tied to-gether by chains, ropes, or straps. Thisset of weights, forming an endless chain,runs over two pulleys, suitably disposedup and down near the fly wheel, whichis provided with a set of cups fixedaround its periphery, so as to receive theweights as they are delivered by the upperpulley, and to carry them down to thelower pulley, whence the same weightsreascend in a straight direction to theupper pulley. The weights of the endless chain running or falHngdown in the curvilinear direction of the periphery of the drum are morenumerous than those that are raised up in a straight line, because thecurvilinear line is longer than the straight one, and the difference ofheaviness due to the number of weights is the force which, by its actionat the end of the levers or radii of the drum, causes that drum 927. PERPETUAL MOTION. Revolving tubes and balls. Theballs, A and B, are in equilibrium because they are at an equal distance from the vertical line that passes throughthe center E. By the construction of themachine, the ball, D, being, on the con-trary, more distant from the point of sup-port than the ball, C, must prevail over thelatter and break the equilibrium. It mustthen descend to the point, B, and causethe apparatus to make a quarter revolu-tion. Now the latter can not take placewithout the rod, A, B, which was situatedvertically, assuming a horizontal position, and then the balls, A and B,are to each other as were the balls D, C. One must overcome theothe
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