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{July,. 
BE Wos5P Ace Ean 7.8. 
Enrolled in the Months of Fune and Fuly. 
Mr. VARLEY’s MACHINE FOR 
PRODUCING PERPETUAL Moron. 
O*’ the 23d of May, 1797. letters pa- 
tent were granted to Mr. RICHARD 
VARLEY, of Damfide, Bolton-le-Moor, 
county of Laneafter, cotton manufattu- 
rer, for a machine for producing perpe- 
tual motion. 
‘The ignorant and prejudiced part of 
mankind have in all ages attached a folly 
to the purfuit of various myfteries of 
nature and fcience; {uch as the afcer- 
taining the longitude at fea, the variation 
of the magnetic needle, the tranf{muta- 
tion of metals, the quadrature of the 
circle, the adhefion of metallic-particles, 
the repulfion of. atmofpheric’ particles, 
the effential differences between bodies 
to the exclufion of their attributes, and 
perpetual motion. The laft has been 
thought, in the general meaning of the 
term, to be the moft chimerical, becaufe 
all-machines are compofed of perifhable 
fubftances. a aie 
Mr. VARLEY's difcovery of a new 
perpetual power appears however to pro- 
mife as much utility as fteam, wind, 
water, or any other force requifite for 
working mechanigal apparatus. 
We prefent our-readers beneath with 
the form of the opened fuperficies of his 
apparatus. with this peculiar advantage 
that it never dimimifhes its force, while 
the machine upon which it aéts, pre- 
forves its original form and folidity. 

A: is the periphery of a copper or 
ether veffel cipable of holding water, 
and px feétly air-tight, with acover; B 
is @wacel which revolves on the middle 
axle, defcribed by twe fmall circles;.C” 
is a large cylinder ; D is a pifton, to: 
contain condenfed airs. E is a tube 
through which the air ts conveyed to the- 
pitton; F is a {pring to prevent the ex- 
panfion of the condenfed air ; and Giis- 
a tube, by means-of which, and with the- 
affiftance of an air-pump, the airis drawn: 
from the cylinder €.. Bhus having de-- 
{cribed the machine; it appears that the 
principle. of the difcovéry. of the new 
power is: effeéted: by: ** converging the 
weight of the atmofpberé om a-wheet in ang 
other fluid,.and. by that meams- deftroying. 
ibe repulfive quality, or ré-adtion. ofi the 
ae 2 = - 
The procefs Mr. Varuzy purfues-im 
effeéting his purpofe is as follows: the 
copper veffel 1s filled with water, or any’ 
other fluid,. with the other apparatus in- 
ity.as before defcribed. It is then clofed! 
with the cover, and by means of leather 
on the edges is made perfeéthy air-tight.. 
In this condition, with the help of an. 
air-pump, a vacuum is formed in the 
large cylinder, over which cylinder is a 
{pring that is aéted wpon by the conden{- 
ed air conveyed into the pifton, through 
the tube F, and that produces the action 
of the wheel, becaufe water has no fpring. 
Et is found that upon every fquare 
inch of the earth’s furface there exifts a. 
weight of nearly fixteen pounds of com- 
mon air, and.that a column of mercury, 
whofé elevation will-be thirty inches, and 
its bafé one cubic inch, ‘will weigh fifteen 
pounds avoirdupoife, at the rate of eight 
ounces for every cubic inch of mercury, 
Since this atmo{pheric power can be con- 
denfed by various means,. the formation 
therefore of the vacuum in the cylinder 
and the preffure of the condenfed air 
againft it, of courfe produces the revolu- 
tion of the wheel,. which. is: the effect 
fought for:. 
‘Fhe cylinders can be increafed on the 
radii, or wheel-fpokes, to°any teighr,. 
as alfo. may the condenfed air. Con- 
fequently,, if a toothed fegment or cog- 
ged wheel.of: any: defcription, is fitred to 
it, it will receive the full aétion of the: 
weight of the. atmofphere, as its-impul- 
five power,. and may be eafily applied to 
any machine im: the fame manner-as if 
it were acted upon by fteam, wind, wa- 
ter, horfes, weight, {fpring, or any de- 
{cription of mutcular power neceffary to. 
produce motion.. 
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