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... Redheffer's discovery is genuine , and that it is incontestibly a perpetual self - moving principle ... This is to be valid until the 15th inst . , at sunsetting . ' Redheffer had already applied to the legislature of Pennsylvania for a ...
... Redheffer's discovery is genuine , and that it is incontestibly a perpetual self - moving principle ... This is to be valid until the 15th inst . , at sunsetting . ' Redheffer had already applied to the legislature of Pennsylvania for a ...
Page 128
... Redheffer was invited to attend . Red- heffer was so amazed to see the machine at work , apparently demonstrating the very principle which his had failed to perfect. Fig . 76. Model of the Redheffer perpetual motion machine in the ...
... Redheffer was invited to attend . Red- heffer was so amazed to see the machine at work , apparently demonstrating the very principle which his had failed to perfect. Fig . 76. Model of the Redheffer perpetual motion machine in the ...
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... Redheffer's New York machine , he says that the catgut string led through one of the laths and the frame of the machine to the upright shaft of ' a principal wheel ' . There were but two wheels in the device , the large one and a ...
... Redheffer's New York machine , he says that the catgut string led through one of the laths and the frame of the machine to the upright shaft of ' a principal wheel ' . There were but two wheels in the device , the large one and a ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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