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THE CENTURY, 



pound 8 defcending doth 9 what no 

 thing lefs then one hundred pound 8 

 can effect. 



8 pounds. P. 



to do. 



[A most admirable way to raise Weights. ~\ In his MS. 

 of a select number of his inventions, we have, in No. 6, 

 the following earlier reading of the above : 



&quot; By these (his quintessence of motions) I can make 

 one pound raise an hundred, as high as the pound falls ; 

 and the one pound taken off the 112 pounds shall again 

 descend, performing the entire effect of an hundred 

 weight, that is, have the force which nothing less than 

 112 pounds can have any other way. An incredible 

 effect till seen, but true as strange.&quot; See Appendix A. 

 Keeping in view Nos. 25 and 27, we have here a third 

 application of the same principle, by which it is proposed 

 with one pound to raise a hundred &quot; as high as one pound 

 fallefh&quot; In the engraved figure of this demonstrative 

 model, one steam cylinder B, is shown, 

 with its steam pipe and valve at A ; 

 one end of a cord is attached to the 

 piston B, and passing over the drum 

 wheel D, is attached to the weight 

 X. As condensation ensues, the des 

 cent of B, will raise X ; and it may 

 be reset for another lift by drawing 

 off the condensed water at E, and re 

 admitting steam. 



Here we are required &quot; to make one 

 pound weight&quot; so that it shall be able to 

 raise 100 times its own weight, always bearing in mind 

 &quot;as high as onefaHeth.&quot; This being no Archime- 

 dian experiment would be unintelligible to any man 



