. Scientific American Volume 24 Number 05 (January 1871) . -■Hi The diagram -is the section of a carriage, with broad, coni-cal wheels, resting on the inclined plane. The entrance tothe carriage is from above, and there are ample accommoda-tions for goods and passengers. The most singular propertyof this contrivance is, that its speed increases the more it isladen; and when checked on any part of the road, it will,when the cause of stoppage is removed, proceed on its jour-ney by mere power of gravity. Its path may be a circularroad formed of the inclined planes. But, to avoid a cir-cuitous rou
. Scientific American Volume 24 Number 05 (January 1871) . -■Hi The diagram -is the section of a carriage, with broad, coni-cal wheels, resting on the inclined plane. The entrance tothe carriage is from above, and there are ample accommoda-tions for goods and passengers. The most singular propertyof this contrivance is, that its speed increases the more it isladen; and when checked on any part of the road, it will,when the cause of stoppage is removed, proceed on its jour-ney by mere power of gravity. Its path may be a circularroad formed of the inclined planes. But, to avoid a cir-cuitous route, a double road ought to be made. The car-riage not having a retrograde motion on the inclined planes,a road to set out upon, and another to return by, are indis-pensable. I am indebted to a much-respected friend for the hint ofthis means of effecting a veritable pcrpeual motion. The Perpetual Motion Hunter is the title of an articlein the Imperial Magazine, vol. 6,1824: Fig. It gives me much pleasure (says the writer) to observe thatyou notice scientific subjects; you are very right in so doing,as it will not only give variety, but add considerably to thevalue of your very useful miscellany. It is my humbleopinion that such a procedure is infinitely better than fillingit with the splenetic effusions of angry minds, the ebullitionsof disappointed envy, or, what is worse, dealing out largeportions of scandal, and making use of personalities to woundvirtuous sensibility, as is the constant practice in some simi-lar publications. I am now, sir, an elderly man, and am sorry to inform youthat I have lost much valuable time, and, of course, money,too, from having been infected, in the early part of my life, with the vanity of hunting after that ignis fatuvs called the perpetual Common report informed me that itwould immortalize the name of the inventor; that by it thelongitude would be discovered; and that, on this account,the British Parliament had off
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