. 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. the circumference, so as to allow thebelt to pass freely and to meet theweights. The weights are met by thebelt as the wheel revolves, and areraised from the circumference until theyare at last brought close to the nave,where they remain till, by the revolu-tion of th
. 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. the circumference, so as to allow thebelt to pass freely and to meet theweights. The weights are met by thebelt as the wheel revolves, and areraised from the circumference until theyare at last brought close to the nave,where they remain till, by the revolu-tion of the wheel, they are allowed toroll out through the spokes to thecircumference 925. PERPETUAL MOTION. Fergusons type to prove itsimpossibihty. 1770. The axle is placed horizontally, and the spokes turn in a vertical position. Thespokes are jointed, as shown,and to each of them is fixed aframe in which a weight, D,moves. When any spoke is in ahorizontal position, the weight,D, in it falls down, and pullsthe weighted arm. A, of the thenvertical spoke straight out, bymeans of a cord, C, going overthe pulley, B, to the weight when the spokes comeabout to the left hand, theirweights fall back and cease pull-ing, so that the spokes then bend at their joints and the balls at theirends come nearer the center on the left
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