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Perpetual Motion.From the Concord Register.Mr C. H. DeJarnett of Bethel Township, £ Cabarrus county, N. C., is about finishing 1 up a machine which will, he claims, knock £ Keeley’s Motor cold as a sledge and ruin 1 every steam engine in the country, for all t you will have to do will be to place it iu t position, give the fly wheel a start and it 1 will keep going until the skies fall. He i calls the machine DeJarnett’s Self Sustain- t ing Motor. lt;We visited Mr DeJarnett’s shop, and he 1 undertook to explain the workings of his i new machine. Two fly wheels, two cone shaped pieces of mechanicism and one band « wheel, were the only things visible in the i shop, and these, when put together, are the : substance of the motor. Now, just what to i begin an explanation on first, we are not certain whether we know or not. Anyhow, the two cones, or oscillators revolve on pedestals, with the two driving wheels between them. The driving wheels are constructed to receive balls, as a water wheel does water. The oscillators are circled with a pipe through which the balls pass upwards on their way from, into the wheels. At every revolution of the wheel, one ball drops out below, into this pipe; while one is discharged from above into the wheel, fourteen balls being constantly on the descent and seven on the ascent. The oscillators revolve in opposite directions and each receives a ball from the wheels and discharges one into them, simultaneously, and that’s the way the thing keeps its head level. The machine which Mr DeJarnett is now perlecting, will occupy about as much space in a room as an ordinary bedstead and will be driven by 22 ten pound balls and its motive power will be sufficient to run a cotton factory. We have purposely avoided giving our readers such a description of the machine as would enable them to go to work and make one for themselves before Mr DeJarnett receives his patent on it.Fifteen months ago it was, when he began to work oti his motor ami latterly his hammer has been ringing unceasingly in an endeavor to get all the parts complete, and have it on exhibition at the State Fair. The fate of most inventors seems to have beset him and he finds it up-hill business to work with no money in his pockets. To remedy this evil he has hit upon a plan to sell certificates ol stock at one dollar each, he paying back to the holders, in the event the motor is a success, the sum ol one hundred dollars for each dollar invested. Moderate success has rewarded him so far.Mr DeJarnett is about sixty years old and has been trying to solve the problem ol perpetual motion for the past six years and his labors are about culminated. lie has certainly constructed a machine that will run itself until it wears out, and if lie can give it the motive power which he claims, why then, there is nothing for him to do but to retire on a fortune. ^---
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Charlotte Democrat
Charlotte, North Carolina, US
Fri, Oct 03, 1879
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