Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — A GREAT INVENTION. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT INVENTION.

Walker Tp., Man Inventa a Novel Water Power-Wheel. Mr. A. G. Hendryx, a citizen of Walker tp., this county, has invented what he thinks promises to be one of the most important and useful inventions of modern times. Mr. Hendryx has been working and studying on the invention for the past five years and has finally succeeded in perfecting the machine, and through his attorney, George A. Williams, of Rensselaer, has made application for letters patent from the patent office; he has also taken preliminary steps to protect his rights iu foreign countries. The invention itself, like many important inventions, is very simple, making use of n principle of hydraulics that has been dormant ' for centuries. The machine consists of a waterwheel which supplies the water to run the wheel and nearest approaches practical perpetual motion of any thing ever invented. The machinery will be very valuable as the cheapest power available for railroad companies, irrigation companies, and in fact for pumping and supplying water any place under any circumstances; it may also be utilized as a power for running machinery. The chief features of the invention are the cheapness of construction, the fact that it costs absolutely nothing to operate the machine and th'- continuous and perpetual operation of the machine by its own power and energy. It may be seen at the home of the inventor, running continuously, supplying its own power and energy. The invention consists of a large wheel revolving on an axle. The outer rim of the wheel is supplied with buckets which are tilled with water from a pump 'operated by the wheel itself. The weight of the water as the wheel goes down furnishes the power, the buckets dumping at the bottom and going! up empty. The water is dumped into a tank from which it is pumped up to fill the buckets again and again, thus furnishing practically perpetual motion in the wheel. It is thought that the invention will be very valuable and make Mr. Hendryx a wealthy man, which lie well deserves after his long years of hard study and work.