impaired by rotation or the ravagesof time, and to give it a path encircling the earth, would as-suredly continue to roll along in one undeviating course tilltime shall be no more. A series of inclined planes is to be erected in such amanner that a cone will ascend one (its sides forming an… … -■Hi The diagram -is the section of a carriage, with broad, coni-cal wheels, resting on the inclined plane. The entrance tothe carriage is from above, and there are ample accommoda-tions for goods and passengers. The most singular propertyof this contrivance is, that its speed increases the more it…
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