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A NOVEL MOTOR.
The engraving shows a means of imparting motion to vehicles and machinery by.the employment of soft tubing beneath a flexible bearing surface for traction wheels. The tubing and flexible bearing, under the influence of steam, water, air, or other expansible or compressible fluid forced into it, will form a wedge-shaped or inclined wall or abutment in the rear of the tangential bearing of the wheel, and propel it with greater or less speed according to the pressure of the propelling medium.