The device is
expected to operate as follows:
The frictional electrical machine is started,
which magnetizes the
temporary magnet and draws the armature toward it. This breaks the
circuit at the point, I, E, which demagnetizes the temporary magnet and
allows the spring, J, to again close the circuit. By this means a
continued motion is expected to be kept up.
To those not familiar with the science of
molecular physics this device
may appear very plausible; a little reading, however, upon the subject
of the correlation of forces will serve to show its utter fallacy.