Perpetual Motion
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Chapters (435)
- Perpetual Motion
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- CHAPTER I DEVICES BY MEANS OF WHEELS AND WEIGHTS
- Wilars de Honecort
- 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
- A Proposition on the Balance, not taken notice of by Mechanical Writers, explained and confirmed by an Experiment.
- 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
- Device by Mercury in Inclined Glass Tube and Heavy Ball on Inclined Plane
- 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- Unpublished Incline Plane and Weights Devices Noted by the Author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
- Enbom & Anderson's Pump
- 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
- Why Hydraulic and Hydro-Mechanical Devices for Obtaining Perpetual Motion Failed to Work
- CHAPTER IV PNEUMATIC, SIPHON AND HYDRO-PNEUMATIC DEVICES
- The Hydrostatical Paradox
- 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
- The Manner of Setting It to Work
- Why the Devices Described in this Chapter Failed to Work
- 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
- A Letter from Professor 's Gravesande to Sir Isaac Newton, Concerning Orffyreus's Wheel
- 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?
- The Possibility of Perpetual Motion Denied Remarks of Dr. Papin on a French Contrivance
- Two "Certain" Plans for (Not) Producing Perpetual Motion
- Article by Rev. John Wilkins
- CHAP. IX.—Of a Perpetual Motion—The seeming facility and real difficulty of any such contrivance—The several ways whereby it hath been attempted, particularly by Chemistry.
- CHAP. XIII.—Concerning several attempts of contriving a Perpetual Motion, by Magnetical Virtues.
- CHAP. XIV.—The seeming probability of effecting a Continual Motion by Solid Weights in a Hollow Wheel or Sphere.
- CHAP. XV.—Of composing, a Perpetual Motion by Fluid Weights—Concerning Archimedes his Water Screw—The great probability of accomplishing this enquiry by the help of that, with the fallibleness of it upon experiment.
- 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
- SUMMARIZED TABLE OF CONTENTS
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