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Perpetual Motion


  Comprising a History of the Efforts to Attain Self-Motive
  Mechanism with a Classified, _ILLUSTRATED_ Collection and
  Explanation of the Devices Whereby it Has Been Sought and Why
  They Failed, and Comprising Also a Revision and Re-Arrangement of
  the Information Afforded by "Search for Self-Motive Power During
  The 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries," London, 1861, and "A History
  of the Search for Self-Motive Power from the 13th to The 19th
  Century," London, 1870, by Henry Dircks, C. E., LL. D., Etc.


[Illustration]


    BY

    PERCY VERANCE




    Copyright 1916
    By
    20th Century Enlightenment Specialty Co.




CONTENTS


For Summarized Table of Contents, see page 358 _et seq._

                                                                    Page
    Introduction                                                       3

    Preface                                                         7-10

    Introductory Essay                                             11-21


    CHAPTER I.

    Devices by Means of Wheels and Weights                         22-67


    CHAPTER II.

    Devices by Means of Rolling Weights and Inclined Planes        68-75


    CHAPTER III.

    Hydraulic and Hydro-Mechanical Devices                        76-117


    CHAPTER IV.

    Pneumatic Siphon and Hydro-Pneumatic Devices                 118-162


    CHAPTER V.

    Magnetic Devices                                             163-174


    CHAPTER VI.

    Devices Utilizing Capillary Attraction and Physical
        Affinity                                                 