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diameter of a bucket wheel, then at a certain height direct these 

 balls by a slightly inclined shoot to the buckets of the wheel rea- 

 soning that being so far from the centre the balls would have 

 thereby sufficient additional power to raise them through the ver- 

 tical diameter and yet leave some available energy for useful pur- 

 poses. 



Fig IV. — Haywood's Patent, No. 1750, 1790. 

 Gravity Wheel. 

 9. Richard's patent, No. 1870, of 1858, chosen for illustration 

 in the text, utilizing precisely the same principle, but differently 

 reasoned. The inventor here says that the number of balls 

 descending greatly exceeds that of the ascending series, so that 

 the latter is constantly overbalanced. Thus in over a century the 



