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Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction
by
Gardner D. Hiscox, M.E.
Norman W. Henley Publ. Co.
1927

The Inventor's Paradox - Desaguliers' Demonstration
The Prevailing Wheel Type
Marquis Of Worcester Wheel
Rolling Balls
Folding Arms
Chain Wheel
Most Common Idea
Magnetism And Gravity
Pick-up Ball
Ball-Carrying Belt
Ferguson's Type
French, 1858
Revolving Tubes And Balls
Geared Motive Power
Differential Hydrostatic Wheel
Lever Type
Double Cone
Rocking Beam
Titling Tray And Ball
Rolling Ring
Differential Water Wheel
Multiple Water Wheel
Gear Problem
Mercurial Wheel
Water Wheel
Air-Bag Wheel
Water Wheel
Air Transfer In Submerged Wheel
Extending Weights And Water Transfer
Chain Buckets
Congreve's Sponges
Transfer Of Air
Differential Weight of Balls
Inclined Disk And Balls
Self-Moving Water Power
Chain Pump, 1618
Archimedean Screw
Differential Weight By Flotation
Floatation Problem
Liquid Transfer Wheel
Chain-Pump
Mercurial Displacement
Air-Buoyed Wheel
Magnetic Resistance
Overbalanced Cylinder
Hydrostatic Weight
Capillary Attraction
Magnetic Pendulum
Magnetic Wheel
Magnetic Mill
Regenerating Pendulum
Magnetic Wheel
Alternate Magnet Type
Electro-magnetic Type
Electrical Generation
Perpetual-Motion Puzzle



23. Perpetual Motion
The flotation problem 

     An upright tank, through which passes a number of floats connected by a band of elastic rubber attached to their ends, leaving just enough space between them to secure action on each side by the water. They are each of the same weight as an equal bulk of water at the surface, therefore the upper one in the tank has no comparative weight.

Perpetual Motion Machine: 953-Flotation

     The next lower one has a unit of upward force equal to the condensation of its bulk of water, and so on, each adding a unit to the upward tendency, until we come to the last, the pressure on which is altogether downward to the amount of the entire column of water; but we already have a number of opposing upward forces, and when we look on the other side and see the thirteen active weights, it seems clear that there will be a large surplus weight, over and above the opposing weight and the friction of the rollers and upper wheel. The weights were to pass through an elastic cylinder at the bottom.

(Subsection 953, from p.382)


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