PERPETUAL MOTION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

PERPETUAL MOTION.

tie vera 1 people have had a shot at making something that would go on tor ever, like Tennyson's brook. And these have not all been cranks. A mechanician, for instance, made a top, waLeti was balanced on diamond tips and spun in a vacuum, which ran for twelve month*. A Swiss watchmaker lias lately invented an electric watch which will go for fifteen years without requiring to be re-wound. A wateli and clock luukor of Uurtou has in his possession an electric clock of his own making which has' already gone twelve years, and has never failed to record the time during that period, although it has never been rewound. He claims that the mechanism will last fifty years, and that he would not be surprised if the clock ran uninterruptedly for a century. Of course, the possibilities of radioactivity are to-day only dimly known, but they may yet revolutionise all our notions of motion and energy, and put even electricity out of court. MUXICU'AL IMELLIUEXL'E First Councillor: " Here's a- finelooking street." Second Ditto: "You're right. What's 1 the best thing to do with it " Let's have it dug up for a drain.' "But wouldn't it be proper to pave it first?-"' ''Of course; 1 thought you would understand that. Then-, aft<>r it is paved and a drain put itv. we'll have it repaved '•' "AH in readiness to bo dug up again lor the gas-pipe 'i I see you understand the principles of municipal econloinv. And, after «■«< have had it repayed W a second time, then what'" "Well, then it will be ready for widening- Then 1 s nothing I admire ho niu>h iif- system in the care and improvement of our roadways. ' Niece-"My husband's so careless; he's always losing his' buttons." Aunt—" Perhaps thye are not sown on carefully, dear." Xieeu* That's iust it; he'e awfully slipshod lutli liitf setting."