ANOTHER ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET.
Dr William H. Gray, of West Fall, is quite ante that he has at last discovered the secret of perpetual motion, and has constrno'od a wheel which he thinks will ran for ever. It derives its motion from the attraction of gravitation, a meohanic%l movement being placed on the wheel m each a way that the demanding side Is tbe heaviest. By the force of its action it keeps the whoel steadily m motion. The wheel is twenty-six inohes In diameter by eight inches In thlckneeß, and ia mouDted on a wooden frame resembling a grindstone framo. The wheel is keyed to a stool axle, which reats on brass bearings Dr Gray has had one of the machines at work at his house working steadily for the past three months. He labored 20 yearß over his invention.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1608, 13 July 1887, Page 3
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143ANOTHER ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1608, 13 July 1887, Page 3
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