Perpetual Motion.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6162, 16 May 1914, Page 1

Perpetual Motion.

I'crpctnul motion is, after all, dojfined to solve the great problem of mechaoical power, ii the invention of an Italian engineer, .Signor \ irgimo t'lorio, is all that is claimed (or it. -Nations ncwl no longvr dread the day when their coal supply will be m|i«iisted, as it has been.suid might bo tho cuse with Kngland in llirci! 'or four centuries Sipnoi' I'lorio ban a substitute at hand which is butter 'tli a n coal, better than pet roleuni, and better, in fact, than most of the agents now employed to produce mechanical potter-, it in perpetual motion, not ol (ho abstract kind sought by mediaeval power. It is perpetual ; motion produced simply b v the continual difiereucc between the atmosphere and the water in the largest part ot tile inhabited globe. At a meeting of savants, held t;,. 'HM'r dav at I lie offices of n Paris ilew .-.paper, which Dr. lierthclot, Jl. t'annlle I'lummariou, and others attended, Sigjior Klario demonstrated his invention. It consists simply ot four'hollow globes poised at certain distance*, two on each ,-ide oi an vi.sis. and connected by tube-. One of the globes is half, iilhd with water, and a> soon as it is in contact with the water in the tank, while the other is only expoied to tin- air, there is a slight contraction in one globo and an expansion in another. Tho water in one of the globes begins lo How into the other, and causes the equilibrium to be lost. The third hollow globe is then brought by a natural process of compensating equilibrium into touch with the water, the fourth remains oxposed only to tho air. and tho same process is repented. I'ha globes continue alternately U, tilt and to pour out reciprocally the superfluous water and keep up a regular circular motion of the apparatus. This is tho way itnivas explained by the. invrmtor, and his practical demonstration seemed to carry out his theory. The savants who witnessed the experiment declared that it was most intemtiMg,