176 Relation of the Laws of Mechanics to Perpetual Motion: 
that if a power could be found which aie al peepee: over? 
balance the resistance of the air, and the friction of the parts of 
the apparatus, it might be so multiplied, as to eeiues any pot the 
effects for which force is required in the arts. If for instance the 
moving principle were a weight, and ten pounds could be so ap- 
plied as to preserve an uninterrupted motion of the machine, @ 
hundred pounds would accomplish much more. As the weight 
ey _might be easily enlarged, to almost any extent whatever, there 
a would scarcely be any bounds to the effects to be produced. 
4 4 _  'The vast expense now incurred, in providing reservoirs of water; 
in producing steam, in procuring labor, é&c., as moving forces, 
~. might be wholly dispensed with. In the various manufacturing 
establishments, in this country, and in Europe, millions of dollars 
might be saved, ina single year. 'The invention might be con- 
sidered a mine of wealth, even toa nation. It would not, per- 
haps, necessarily follow, that a power which would put in opera- 
.. tion a standing machine, as a mill or manufacturing establish- 
**%> ment, would be adapted to the progressive motion of a plow ’ 
ea “a coach. But it would seem less difficult to make such an a 
+ — ® plication of a moving force, than to originate the force itself. if 
athe additional. pareeveiiont could be effected, our oxen and our 
he: ‘draft horses. might b e rélieved: from their labors : our carriages . 
ee gravid be seerrolling throughthe streets of themselves ; and we 
P as uld be eroulag nearto the state of perfeetibility ieioted by 4 
Doing; when a ged need: ‘only to be tet loose into a field, to ac- 
omplish the work of. tillage: | 
fankind have not Seti: insensible to the immense advantages . 
> derived from perpetual motion. 'There is perhaps, no one 
ject on which the inventive faculties have more frequently 
een calledsinto exercise. It is doubtful aie ote ian or 
ev. ‘a single week has passed, for centuries, in . ‘it has not 
Siueuinied the garnest attention;of some one. - y ‘are parva ie 
Sa 
F ‘employed i an ‘théSearch, who tiever disclose their attempts to, the 
= “public They. have a double motive fo ae ping, rei on 
fe ~ em hd o i bi r su 
secure to themselves .t 
