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Show The First Idea of Perpntual Motion, Houecourt, a Flemish architect of the , thirteenth century, loft a drawing of a i wheel that was to solve the problem of : perpetual motion with this memoran- ! dtim: "Many a time have skillful work- j men tried to contrive a wheel that shall turn of itself. Hero ia a way to make such a one. by an uneven number of mallets or by quicksilver," But unfortunately unfort-unately lie did not leave tho wheel. From his time on Beekers after perpetual perpet-ual motion have been numerous, manv of them supposed to bo very respectable and intelligent men. Among the. receivers receiv-ers of eighty-six English and twenty-three twenty-three French patents taken out for perpetual per-petual motions between 18G0 and 1SCU were a colonial bishop, a professor of philosophy, ono of languages, two barons, bar-ons, ft Knight Te mpbr. a doctor of medicine, med-icine, two civil engineers, several mechanical me-chanical engineers, etc. --Chicago Herald. |