Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — Perpetual Motion. [ARTICLE]

Perpetual Motion.

“I want you to build a perpetual motion machine for me,” said a gentleman who entered the office of the City Mill Works the other day. A smile spread over the countenances of the men at the desks, and they told him that perpetual motion was an impossibility. He quickly gave thorn to understand that he hadnot called to get advice, but to have work done thathe had already planned. A description of the machine was taken, and an estimate made of the approximate cost, but the company declined to build it unless he would pay for the material and seventy five cents an hour for the time of the machinist while working it.’ He accepted the conditions, furnished security for the payment of the bill, and went into the machine room to give his instructions to the men who are making it. They laughed at him, and good naturedly referred to the thousands of failures that had followed similar attempts to get power out of nothing. “B**e here, young man,” said he, “I am older than you are, and I have spent twenty-three years in studying this subject, so it is/probable that I know as much abouffit as you do, and I am inclined to think I know more. You do the work, and I will show you a machine that will go.” The principle on which it works is that of falling balls striking levers, three of them descending all the time and raising one. It was tried a century ago. and has never been successful. The labor on it has already cost him *s72, and it will amount to SSOO before it is finished. Two of the twenty-inch castiron wheels in it each have i, 167 machine cut teeth, and two others each have 284, The inventor is a toll gate keeper named Hocket, who has a gate on the Williamsburg Pike at the G. R. and I. railroad crossing. He has a large offer for the righfcto use and sell the machine in the Uqjted States when he demonstrates by actual experiment that it will work.—Richmond Palladium. ' l -