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Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 376

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, E, are in-tended to revolve by the space under thevessel, B, being a vacuum, and thereforelighter than the same portion of air; a lit-tle before the vessel, B, reaches the high-est point of the wheels, it begins to close,and opens the opposite vessel, D, in thesame manner as the vessel, C, opens… … 372 PERPETUAL MOTION. never out of order. The particles of mercury not being entirely freefrom friction, a little power is requisite to open and shut the vessels;this is expected to be effected by the rods, F, connected to the lever, G,by chains. The rods, F, give motion to other rods, H, by the…

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