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... steam engine , had also begun with a similar axiom , and by this means established numerous con- clusions concerning ... steam engine . The First Law's axiom is no longer true : you cannot completely convert a fixed amount of heat into ...
... steam engine , had also begun with a similar axiom , and by this means established numerous con- clusions concerning ... steam engine . The First Law's axiom is no longer true : you cannot completely convert a fixed amount of heat into ...
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... steam engine in another part of the build- ing . And the workers stopped at six . This seemed a strange coinci- dence , and Morton concluded that the electric battery either served to operate a concealed belt - shift between what was ...
... steam engine in another part of the build- ing . And the workers stopped at six . This seemed a strange coinci- dence , and Morton concluded that the electric battery either served to operate a concealed belt - shift between what was ...
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... steam for high - speed run- ning , and thus a back - pressure effectively held down the speed . Introducing air at the right point relieved this back pressure and hence the engine ran faster . Subsequently there was a similar flurry of ...
... steam for high - speed run- ning , and thus a back - pressure effectively held down the speed . Introducing air at the right point relieved this back pressure and hence the engine ran faster . Subsequently there was a similar flurry of ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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