Perpetual Motion

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Author

Dircks, Henry, 1806-1873

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery

Subject

Perpetual motion

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44771

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44771

Release Date

January 27, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Perpetual Motion
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
5. 5.CHAPTER I DEVICES BY MEANS OF WHEELS AND WEIGHTS — Wilars de Honecort — A Repetition of Wilars de Honecort's Plan — Leonardo da Vinci — A. Capra's Device — The Device of Dixon Vallance. England, 1825 — Furman's Device — Schirrmeister's Mechanical Movement — Ferguson's Device — B. Belidor's Device — Desagulier's Proposition on the Balance — A Proposition on the Balance, not taken notice of by Mechanical Writers, explained and confirmed by an Experiment. — John Haywood's Device — Explanation of the Failure of the Preceding Wheels and Weights Devices
6. 6.CHAPTER II DEVICES BY MEANS OF ROLLING WEIGHTS AND INCLINED PLANES — Device by Mercury in Inclined Glass Tube and Heavy Ball on Inclined Plane — Series of Inclined Planes — Device by Oscillating Trough and Cannon Balls — Unpublished Incline Plane and Weights Devices Noted by the Author
7. 7.CHAPTER III HYDRAULIC AND HYDRO-MECHANICAL DEVICES — Enbom & Anderson's Pump — Device of "Ed. Vocis Rationis" — Böckler's Plates — John Linley's Hydraulic Device. 1831 — Device of Author of the "Voice of Reason" — An Italian Device — P. Valentine Stansel's Device. Prior to 1657 — Vogel's Device — A Water Wheel-Driven Pump — "A Journeyman Mechanic's" Device — James Black's Device — Archimedean Screw and Liquid — John Sims's Problem. 1830 — A Perpetual Pump, by an Unknown Inventor — Why Hydraulic and Hydro-Mechanical Devices for Obtaining Perpetual Motion Failed to Work
8. 8.CHAPTER IV PNEUMATIC, SIPHON AND HYDRO-PNEUMATIC DEVICES — The Hydrostatical Paradox — Pickering's Device — Stuckey's Device — Prof. George Sinclair's Device — Jacob Brazill's Device — Läserson's Device — Von Rathen and Ellis's Device — Richard Varley's Device — Siphon and Funnel Device — Orchard's Vacuum Engine — Robert Copland's Device — Eaton's Perpetual Siphon. London. 1850 — Legge's Hydro-Pneumatic Power Device. 1850 — Waterblowing Machine — Device by Means of Buoyancy Through Media of Different Densities — Device by Compressible and Distensible Bags in Liquid — George Cunningham's Mercurial Pneumatic Device. Ireland. 1729 — The Manner of Setting It to Work — Why the Devices Described in this Chapter Failed to Work
9. 9.CHAPTER V MAGNETIC DEVICES — A Magnetic Pendulum — Magnetic-Driven Wheel — Mackintosh's Experiment — Spence's Device — Joannis Theisneri's Semi-Circle — Device of Dr. Jacobus
10. 10.CHAPTER VI DEVICES UTILIZING CAPILLARY ATTRACTION AND PHYSICAL AFFINITY — Ludeke and Wilckens's Device — The Jurin Device — Sir William Congreve
11. 11.CHAPTER VII Liquid Air as a Means of Perpetual Motion
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII Radium and Radio-Active Substances Considered as a Conceived Source of Perpetual Motion
13. 13.CHAPTER IX Perpetual Motion Devices Attempting Its Attainment by a Misconception of the Relation of Momentum and Energy — Momentum — Energy
14. 14.CHAPTER X The Alleged Inventions of Edward Sommerset, Sixth Earl and Second Marquis of Worcester, and of Jean Ernest Eli-Bessler (Councillor) Orffyreus — A Letter from Professor 's Gravesande to Sir Isaac Newton, Concerning Orffyreus's Wheel
15. 15.CHAPTER XI Conservation of Energy—A Discussion of the Relation of the Doctrine of Conservation of Energy, and the Possibility of Perpetual Motion
16. 16.CHAPTER XII Will Perpetual Motion Ever Be Accomplished? — The Possibility of Perpetual Motion Denied Remarks of Dr. Papin on a French Contrivance — Two "Certain" Plans for (Not) Producing Perpetual Motion — Article by Rev. John Wilkins — CHAP. IX.— Of a Perpetual Motion—The seeming facility and real difficulty of any such contrivance—The several ways whereby it hath been attempted, particularly by Chemistry. — CHAP. XIII.— Concerning several attempts of contriving a Perpetual Motion, by Magnetical Virtues. — CHAP. XIV.— The seeming probability of effecting a Continual Motion by Solid Weights in a Hollow Wheel or Sphere. — CHAP. XV.— Of composing, a Perpetual Motion by Fluid Weights—Concerning Archimedes his Water Screw—The great probability of accomplishing this enquiry by the help of that, with the fallibleness of it upon experiment. — The Paradoxical Hydrostatic Balance — Discussion by P. Gregorio Fontana — Article by William Nicholson — On the Mechanical Projects for Affording a Perpetual Motion — The Possibility of Perpetual Motion Asserted — John Bernoulli's Dissertation on Perpetual Motion — Construction — Demonstration — Corollary — P. Christopher Scheiner — T. H. Pasley — Article From Pamphleteer — J. Welch — Article From Mechanics' Magazine
17. 17.SUMMARIZED TABLE OF CONTENTS
18. 18.INDEX
19. 19.Transcribers' Notes

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