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... discovered . His claims were first brought to public notice in 1873 and while they were derided by the few as being ... discovery in the pages of the popular press . So earnest Keely and his Amazing Motor.
... discovered . His claims were first brought to public notice in 1873 and while they were derided by the few as being ... discovery in the pages of the popular press . So earnest Keely and his Amazing Motor.
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... discovery of electricity and electro - magnetism had on inventors during the last century . Static electricity became ... discovered that two superimposed discs , one of copper and one of zinc , formed what he termed an electro - motive ...
... discovery of electricity and electro - magnetism had on inventors during the last century . Static electricity became ... discovered that two superimposed discs , one of copper and one of zinc , formed what he termed an electro - motive ...
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... discovered radium , and this material at once took over from electricity and electro - magnetism as the wonder discovery of the age . John William Strutt , the English physicist , built a fine foil electroscope which was gradually ...
... discovered radium , and this material at once took over from electricity and electro - magnetism as the wonder discovery of the age . John William Strutt , the English physicist , built a fine foil electroscope which was gradually ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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