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Page 54
... turn the screw as is carried up by it . ' But , on the other side , if all the water falling upon one wheel would be able to turn it round , then half of it would serve with two wheels , and the rest may be so disposed of in the fall as ...
... turn the screw as is carried up by it . ' But , on the other side , if all the water falling upon one wheel would be able to turn it round , then half of it would serve with two wheels , and the rest may be so disposed of in the fall as ...
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... turn for long enough to convince a con- ditioned audience that they were in fact witnessing a self - turning wheel . It might also be mentioned that the flywheel itself was rare at this time : certainly its purpose in engineering was ...
... turn for long enough to convince a con- ditioned audience that they were in fact witnessing a self - turning wheel . It might also be mentioned that the flywheel itself was rare at this time : certainly its purpose in engineering was ...
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... turn the wheel . As the wheel rotated , two carbon brushes conveyed electricity to energise the magnet . The current was then broken as the wheel completed its revolu- tion , then switched on to make the next revolution and so on . Once ...
... turn the wheel . As the wheel rotated , two carbon brushes conveyed electricity to energise the magnet . The current was then broken as the wheel completed its revolu- tion , then switched on to make the next revolution and so on . Once ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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