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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
Magnetic wheel

     A light wheel on friction rollers, set with slips of iron at an angle around its periphery. N, N are two magnets, which, attracting the rim of the wheel, will render one side lighter and the other heavier, causing it to revolve ad infinitum: or, to render it more powerful, let the steel rims be magnetized, and fixed on the wheel with their north poles toward its center.

Perpetual Motion Machine: 964-MagneticWheel

     Let two more magnets be added, as shown by the unshaded lines; let these two, S, S, be placed with their south poles nearest the rim of the wheel, and the other two, N, N, with their north poles in that position. Now, as similar poles repel and opposite poles attract, the wheel will be driven round by attraction and repulsion acting conjointly on four points of its circumference. B, B are blocks of wood to keep off the attraction of the magnets from that part of the wheel which has passed them. No substance yet found that interrupts the magnetic field.

(Subsection 964, from p.387)


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