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Perpetual Motion

Preface (About the Book)

Summarized Table of Contents

Introductory Essay

Chapter I

Devices By Means of Wheels And Weights

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

John Haywood's Device

Explanation of the Failure of the Preceding Wheels And Weights Devices

Chapter II

Devices By Means of Rolling Weights And Inclined Planes

Series of Inclined Planes

Device By Oscillating Trough And Cannon Balls

Unpublished Incline Plane And Weights Devices Noted By the Author

Chapter III

Hydraulic And Hydro-Mechanical Devices

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

Chapter IV

Pneumatic, Siphon And Hydro-Pneumatic Devices

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

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

Chapter VI

Devices Utilizing Capillary Attraction And Physical Affinity

Ludeke And Wilckens's Device

The Jurin Device

Sir William Congreve

Chapter VII

Liquid Air As a Means of Perpetual Motion

Chapter VIII

Radium And Radio-Active Substances Considered As a Conceived Source of Perpetual Motion

Chapter IX

Perpetual Motion Devices Attempting Its Attainment By a Misconception of the Relation of Momentum And Energy

Momentum

Energy

Chapter X

The Alleged Inventions of Edward Sommerset, Sixth Earl And Second Marquis of Worcester, And of Jean Ernest Eli-Bessler (Councillor) Orffyreus

Chapter XI

Conservation of Energy—A Discussion of the Relation of the Doctrine of Conservation of Energy, And the Possibility of Perpetual Motion

Chapter XII

Will Perpetual Motion Ever Be Accomplished?

Two "Certain" Plans For (Not) Producing Perpetual Motion

Article By Rev. John Wilkins

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