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... experiment . He fastened one end of a flexible cord to a nail driven into the wall and from the other he suspended a heavy ball . The set - up which he made is shown in Fig . 5 . Lifting the pendulum from M to A in such a way as to keep ...
... experiment . He fastened one end of a flexible cord to a nail driven into the wall and from the other he suspended a heavy ball . The set - up which he made is shown in Fig . 5 . Lifting the pendulum from M to A in such a way as to keep ...
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... experiments at Fort Lafayette . Scott's first visit to Keely's workshop at 1422 N. Twentieth Street , was made with Mrs ... experiment had been shown to admiring investors and investigators from the earliest Keely and his Amazing Motor 143.
... experiments at Fort Lafayette . Scott's first visit to Keely's workshop at 1422 N. Twentieth Street , was made with Mrs ... experiment had been shown to admiring investors and investigators from the earliest Keely and his Amazing Motor 143.
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... experiment , now a regular labora- tory demonstration written into the textbooks , shows how the super - cooling of the lead ring reduces electrical resistance to nought and so produces a sort of perfect flywheel.1 There is one form of ...
... experiment , now a regular labora- tory demonstration written into the textbooks , shows how the super - cooling of the lead ring reduces electrical resistance to nought and so produces a sort of perfect flywheel.1 There is one form of ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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