Perpetual MotionAn illustrated overview of perpetualmotion machines and their inventors. The deceptively simple task of making a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion machine designers. And, despite the naivete and even the blatant trickery of many inventors, there still exist a handful of mechanisms which defy explanation: * a vast canvascovered wheel which turned by itself was erected in the Tower of London * another wheel turned endlessly in Germany and was discussed by philosophers and scientists throughout Europe, including Sir Isaac Newton |
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Contents
Introduction | 15 |
Medieval Perpetual Motion | 41 |
Selfmoving Wheels and Overbalancing Weights | 58 |
Lodestones ElectroMagnetism and Steam | 83 |
Capillary Attraction and Spongewheels | 94 |
Coxs Perpetual Motion | 110 |
The Redheffer Perpetual Motion | 125 |
Keely and his Amazing Motor | 139 |
EverRinging Bells and Radium Perpetual Motion | 166 |
Perpetual Motion Inventors Barred from the | 176 |
Rolling Ball Clocks | 186 |
Perpetual Lamps | 194 |
Philosophical Perpetual Motion and Atomic Energy | 200 |
The Perpetuity of the Perpetual Motion Inventor | 207 |
A Summing Up | 219 |
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ΙΟ Odd Ideas about Vaporisation and Liquefaction | 151 |
The Astonishing Case of the Garabed Project | 160 |
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