This is emphatically not the case with Mr. Bangerter. His is a most practical mind. His record as an inventor is one of successes. He has had twenty years’ experience as a practical and technical mechanical engineer, with a great number of patents and inventions in operation all over the world. His marvelous automatic machines--taking wrought casting and bars of metal and automatically making gears, chains, spindles, screws, pinions, etc., of the highest precision--is a striking example of his great ability. At two World’s Expositions--in Paris, 1900, and Belgium, 1905--the Jury of International Selection of Mechanical Experts awarded him Silver and Gold Medals and Diplomas for his inventions of the most marvelous machines. A TRULY WONDERFUL INVENTION Bangerter’s Perpetual Time Clock is a truly wonderful mechanism and an exact, reliable timepiece. It will do the work for which it is intended, as long as the mechanical parts hold together--as long as the shafts and spindles run in their bearings. In other words, this clock will run for [Illustration: BANGERTER’S PERPETUAL CLOCK.] generations--yes, from 100 to 500 years--without winding. During this unbelievably long period this clock will run, show the exact time, strike the hours and play the marvelous Westminster melodies without the slightest expenditure of time or effort in winding up with springs or weights. There is employed no electricity, chemicals, secret preparations or fuel, to produce the power and energy to run Bangerter’s Perpetual Force Clock. Yet there is a natural law behind it all--the secret of its practical application was discovered and successfully applied by the young Swiss inventor. WHAT DOES PERPETUAL MOTION MEAN? To avoid loss of time and to obviate dissension and discussion between readers and critics herewith is given the technical understanding of the title “PERPETUAL MOTION.” It is taken from “The International Cyclopedia,” Vol. II, Page 522, and reads as follows: “Perpetual Motion means an engine which, without any supply of power from without, can not only maintain its own motion forever, or as long as its material lasts, but can also be applied to drive machinery, and therefore to do external work. In other words, it means a device for creating power energy without corresponding expenditure. This is now known to be absolutely impossible, no matter what physical forces be employed.” The Bangerter Clock is eloquent evidence that the theory just quoted (and heretofore generally accepted as correct) is not, in fact, correct. It will be necessary, in the face of this new discovery, to write a new definition of Perpetual Motion. Impossibilities of yesterday are the stern realities of to-day. We have now arrived at such a stage of advancement as to be surprised at no discovery or invention, no matter how improbable or wonderful. NAPOLEON’S FATAL ERROR.