23. Perpetual Motion
Chain
pump
Chain pump as
known in 1618. A water wheel which is expected through a system of
gearing to operate a chain pump, which pump should raise the water
necessary to propel the wheel, and so on forever. It is probably
unnecessary to inform our readers that this fallacious principle has
been tried in various ways, and that there are occasionally yet to be
found those so unskilled in mechanical science, and incapable of seeing
the radical error of the device, as to waste their substance in a
repetition of this time-honored blunder.
(Subsection 950, from
p.380)
