Enbon and Anderson's Pump; Device of "Ed. Vocis
Rationis;" Böckler's Plates; John Linley's Hydraulic
Device; Device of Author of the "Voice of Reason;" An
Italian Device; P. Valentine Stansel's Device; Vogel's
Device; A Water Wheel-Driven Pump; "A Journeyman
Mechanic's" Device; James Black's Device; Archimedean
Screw and Liquid; John Sims's Problem; A Perpetual
Pump, by an Unknown Inventor; Explanation of the
Failure of Hydraulic and Hydro-Mechanical Devices to
Accomplish Perpetual Motion 76-117
CHAPTER IV--PNEUMATIC, SIPHON AND HYDRO-PNEUMATIC DEVICES--
The Hydrostatical Paradox; Pickering's Device; Stuckey's
Device; Prof. George Sinclair's Device; Jacob Brazill's
Device; Läserson's Device; Von Rathen & Ellis' Device;
Richard Varley's Device; Siphon and Funnel Device;
Orchard's Vacuum Engine; Robert Copland's Device;
Eaton's Perpetual Siphon; Legge's Hydro-Pneumatic
Power Device; Waterblowing Machine; Device by Means of
Buoyancy Through Media of Different Densities; Device
by Compressible and Distensible Bags in Liquid; George
Cunningham's Mercurial Pneumatic Device; Explanation of
the Failure of Pneumatic, Siphon and Hydro-Pneumatic
Devices to Accomplish Perpetual Motion 118-162
CHAPTER V--MAGNETIC DEVICES--
A Magnetic Pendulum; Magnetic-Driven Wheel; Mackintosh's
Experiment; Spence's Device; Joannis Theisneri's
Semi-Circle; Device of Dr. Jacobus 163-174
CHAPTER VI--DEVICES UTILIZING CAPILLARY ATTRACTION AND PHYSICAL
AFFINITY--
Ludeke & Wilcken's Device; the Jurin Device; Sir William
Congreve, Notice of; His Perpetual Motion Devices and
Writings 175-194
CHAPTER VII--LIQUID AIR AS A MEANS OF PERPETUAL MOTION--
Liquefaction of Air; Explanation of Conservation of
Energy Applied to; Perpetual Motion by Means of Liquid
Air Pompously Heralded; Failure Explained 195-196
CHAPTER VIII--RADIUM AND RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES CONSIDERED AS A
CONCEIVED SOURCE OF PERPETUAL MOTION--
Perpetual Emanation of Energy; Radium Clock by Lord
Rayleigh (Hon. R. J. Strutt); Lord Rayleigh Not a
Perpetual Motion Worker but Thoroughly Scientific 197-199
CHAPTER IX--PERPETUAL MOTION DEVICES ATTEMPTING ITS ATTAINMENT BY
A MISCONCEPTION OF THE RELATION OF MOMENTUM AND ENERGY--
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