Perpetual Motion.

For ages past the above idea has been the constant dream of a certain class of minds, and is as prevalent to-day as in the past. To save such minds from the t ouble of re-inventing for the thousandth time the same old wornout devices, a few of the m st common are here sufficiently illustrated to show those engaged in such effts that their plans are old. It is rath r singular that such hydraulic geniuses almost invariably select the poorest kind of wheels to be combined, in order to get 175 per cent. from a double use of the water. The plan of Mr. Jones only contemplated increased capacity for diameter and part gate economy, but his plans have long been abandoned by more intelligent builders.

"Our wheel discharges its water inward, downward and outward, and dis charges as much inward as any central discharge wheel of same diameter; as much outward as a Fourneyron, and downward as much as any Jonval, &c., &c." There is not the slightest reason to doubt the ability of such devices to discharge an abundance of water, but years of experience and demonstrations by decisive tests prove beyond chance for dispute that all double arrangements are less effective than simple single turbines. Various kinds have been tested and invariably with the same results; the single wheel has proved the best in every way. The Leffel turbine has been continued in its original form simply because all the claims hinge upon the use of the double wheel, and to give up that would invalidate the whole patent.

The plan consists simply of placing several Jonval wheels in a tube, one above another, each pair rotating in opposite directions. H. Twitchell of Pulaski, N. Y, furnished a set for trial, three wheels; the upper one stationary, acting as chutes; the two beneath rotating in opposite directions, being connected together by gears, hollow and solid shaft, arranged the same as those connecting Wynkoop wheels. First test was with upper wheel, lower wheel removed.

L. D. WYNKOOP'S

Double Power Water Wheel.

Patented January 30, 1866.

In this improvement we have a device for combining wheels driven by the force of running water, and also by the weight of the fluid, both acting in the same direction, and the latter using the water which has already given power to the former.

Fig. 1 shows the external appearance of the case of the wheel, and Fig. 2 the two motors with their gearing. The stream is received at A, Fig. 1, and, by the spiral form of the case, is forced to receive a rotary motion as in the common Turbine. This water acts directly on the buckets, B, Fig. 2, which radiate from the center. They are connected to a hollow shaft, which carries the large bevel gear, C, gearing into the pinion, D, on the horizontal shaft. Passing through the inside of this main shaft is the shaft, E, to which the scroll wheel, F, is secured at the bottom, and a bevel gear, smaller than C, at the top. This gear meshes with the pinion, G, on the horizontal shaft. After the water, by its rotary force, has done its work on B, it falls and operates F, giving it twice the speed of B. By this combination we claim that this device has twice the power of an ordinary wheel with the same weight and force of water. It has been tested by practical men with even greater results. There is now one of these wheels in successful operation in the machine shop of Messrs. CLAPP & HAMBLIN'S, of this City, who have the exclusive right for the manufacture of the same in this State, and the public are invited to call and test it for themselves. The proprietors, L. D. Wynkoop and S. P. Stone, are now prepared to negotiate with any responsible parties for the right to manufacture the same in any State of the Union. In offering this to the public, we are aware that the cry of humbug will be made, but we guarantee all we claim for it, and we wish no one to engage in it until he is satisfied that what we claim is true. Any inquiries addressed to the proprietors, at Owosso, Mich., will be promptly attended to.

L. D. WYNKOOP.
S. P. STONE.

We the undersigned have seen the Wynkoop Wheel in operation and believe it to be all the inventor claims for it.

J. B. BARNES, Mayor,

A. BARTLETT, City Marshal,

E. D. GREGORY,

C. W. CLAPP & CO.,

D. R. STONE,

N. MCBAIN,

GREEN & LEE, Editors "Press,"
DANIEL LYON,

WILLIAM FLETCHER,

JAMES W. STEDMAN,
P. M. ROWELL,

J. H. CHAMPION,

EDWARD SMITH, Machinist,
A. J. PATTERSON,
C. A. BALDWIN,
E. SALSBURY,
H. S. GALUSHE,
C. OSBURN.

CERTIFICATE:

From the experiments performed with the Wynkoop Wheel in the Foundry of Messrs. Clapp & Hamblin of this city, I find it to utilize more than 175 per cent. of the absolute weight of water used; probably nearer 200. This I regard as no violation of the principle laid down in our natural philosophy, viz: that no wheel can be invented which will utilize 100 per cent., as the wheel in question is not a single one, but such a combination of wheels, as can not fail to give a vast increase of power.

I. C. COCHRAN. Principal of Owosso Union School.
HENRY GOULD, Millwright, Owosso City.

The debut of this wheel furnished ample proof that "Perpetual Motion" theories take as readily with those ranking with the learned, as with those having little knowledge of books. Several College Professors, (one at the head of a State Board of Education,) endorsed the claims of Mr. Wynkoop, furnished means to develop the merits of his device, and were present at its test and quietus.

The Economy Water Wheel.

COMPLETE AND READY FOR SETTING UP.

We offer a challenge of $1000 to the country to pro. duce a Turbine Water Wheel of same diameter and under same fall that will furnish one-half as much power as our wheel.

Fulton, Myers & Co.,

SOLE MANUFACTURERS,

Indianapolis, Ind.

My father was a practical miller and a thorough millwright; he contended that there was no water wheel then in existence that utilized but a little over half the power of the water that passed over, under, or through any water wheel in use; and how to utilize this lost power was a difficult problem to an inventive mind to solve; nevertheless, perseverance and a determination to conquer all obstacles in the way, I finally invented and completely overcame this great difficulty, the utilizing of this otherwise lost power of water. I will give a complete description of the construction and action of the water on my Double kight and Left Reacting Turbine Water Wheels The onehalf diameter of their size are blocked or filled up in the centre, to cause water by a tapering centre, a suitable height above the chutes, to spread all around from the inlets above, striking every bucket at the same time, at the farthest part from the wheel's centre, at the point of the wheel where the water exerts the greatest force and power. The chutes and also the buckets of both water wheels are straight blades, set at an angle of 45 degrees, that the current of water from the chutes above may strike the buckets of the upper wheel squarely at right angles, and as these buckets rccede from the force of the current, the water escapes off these blades with still greater force by adding the second wheel of the same dimensions immзdiately under the first, with blades set also at 45 degrees in an opposite direction to again receive this otherwise lost force of the current of water, turning said wheel to the left hand. This is the important feature in my great improvement on all single turbines, by utilizing this otherwise lost force, utilizing the water twice over.

Smith's Upper Spring Valley Mills. This is to certify, that the undersigned, millers and millwrights of Buckingham, were present at the testing trial of J. Hough's Great Compound I.-X.-L. Double Right and Left Reacting Turbine Water Wheels, and we are free to say, they far exceeded our most sanguine expectations by doing one-third more work with the same amount of water as it takes for the old ordinary single turbine water wheel. This we were eye witnesses to.