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problem of invention compared with many whose execution does not cause any particular wonder. The practical science of Invention, concerning which no book, perhaps, has ever yet been written inquires into the principles which should govern the general art of Invention.

2. The transmission, transformation, and prevention of Motion. This general science has been called cinematics. It contemplates the employment of five general means:

a. Trains of machinery having rigid parts.

b. Solid pieces not rigid, either Springs, Plastic Bodies, Bands, Sheets, or Lines.

c. Fluids, the motion being conveyed by the massive motion of the fluid, by diffusion, by waves of different kinds, or by vortices.

d. Electric circuits, conduction of heat, etc.

3. The transformation of energy by Prime Motors. These operate by the following general classes of means.

a. By gravity, as in Water Power;

b. By elasticity alone, as in a Watch;

c. By the heat of a chemical reaction, as in the combustion of coal; and this heat is most conveniently

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