South Carolina Temperance Advocate

PERPETUAL Motion.—An artisan in very humble circumstances, residing in Ipswich, England, has, after three years' labor, succeeded in constructing a model of a machine, 15 inches by 13, and 12 inches deep, which is self-acting after being put in motion by a screw. It is powerful enough to turn a grindstone against the power of one person who had a bar of iron on the stone. It was kept in motion upwards of thirty-six hours, at the end of which time its speed was not diminished; and the constructor, whose name is Thos. Stanard, contends that the machine will keep in motion as long as the materials will last. The invention was offered to several firms in Ipswich, who declined to take it up, since which three persons belonging to one of the first firms of engineers in London have visited Ipswich, and examined the machine, and have been induced to pay the inventor liberally, and have taken the machine and the inventor to London to prosecute inquiry.