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The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon (1865)

Dircks, Henry, 1806-1873 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 487

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nd such like machines [assuming them to be as above 454 THE CENTURY, described,] is notliing less than a perpetual motion.Of course he does not admit even the possibility of suchan an-angements of parts, he only allows that if thatcould be executed, the other would follow. But Desa-guliers admitted… … having 40 spokes, seven feet each, and with an innerrim coinciding with the periphery, at one foot distance,all round. Next provide 40 balls or weights, hangingin the centre of cords or chains two feet long. Nowfasten one end of this cord at the top of the centre spokeC, and the other end of the…

Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667 · Inventions · Industrial arts -- History

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