Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — Perpetual Motion. [ARTICLE]

Perpetual Motion.

There is a clock at Brussels winch comes about as near being a perpetualmotion machine ascan be invented, for the sun does the winding. A shaft exposed to the solar rays causes an updraught of air which sets a fan in motion; The fan actuates mechanism which raises the wajght of the clock until it reaches the top, and then puts a break on the fan until the weight has gone down a little, when the fan is again liberated and proceeds to act as before. As long as the sun shines frequently enough, and the machinery does not wear out, the clock is practically a perpetual-motion machine. A bad owersmsn can never paddle his own canoe.