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... balls will sink it under the surface until the ball immediately over it is one - fourth its bulk in water , when the under ball will escape round the corner at C , and begin to ascend . 000 Fig . 68. An 1825 concept of per- petual ...
... balls will sink it under the surface until the ball immediately over it is one - fourth its bulk in water , when the under ball will escape round the corner at C , and begin to ascend . 000 Fig . 68. An 1825 concept of per- petual ...
Page 189
... ball dropped out of the receptacle and landed on a spring - loaded trigger which allowed another ball to drop on to the chain . As the second ball descended , it wound up the other ball so that when the second ball dropped off , the ...
... ball dropped out of the receptacle and landed on a spring - loaded trigger which allowed another ball to drop on to the chain . As the second ball descended , it wound up the other ball so that when the second ball dropped off , the ...
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... ball up to the top again . All the clocks so far described exist only in early works on horo- logy and there is no evidence to suggest that they were ever built . They owed their existence to the fertile minds of generally wise men ...
... ball up to the top again . All the clocks so far described exist only in early works on horo- logy and there is no evidence to suggest that they were ever built . They owed their existence to the fertile minds of generally wise men ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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