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On the Application of Electrico-Magnetic Poxcer to Mechanics. 

 By M. J. D. BoTTo, Turin. 



The singular energy with which magnetic action is developed 

 in soft iron, under the influence of electricity in motion, is well 

 known. 



As the possibility of applying this new power to mechunical 

 purposes involves a subject of much interest, I have been in- 

 duced to make known the results which I have obtained * 



• I may here remark, that the expectancy of giving a wider range to my 

 experiments, and al.so my being under the necessity of leaving town, have 

 produced cotisiderahle delay in the publication of these facts. I have now, 

 however, determined to announce them, from having seen in the last number 

 oi Gazette Piemonlaise, that M. Jacobi of Konigsberg has succeeded in obtain- 

 ing perpetual motion simply by means of electrico-magnetic influence. 



