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... Bucket Fountain : ' How to raise water constantly , with two buckets only , day and night , without any force other than its own motion , using not so much as any force , wheel , or sucker , nor more pulleys than one on which the cord ...
... Bucket Fountain : ' How to raise water constantly , with two buckets only , day and night , without any force other than its own motion , using not so much as any force , wheel , or sucker , nor more pulleys than one on which the cord ...
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... buckets on pivots . As the flow of water turns the wheel round , the buckets enter the water and are submerged , and then pass up the rear of the wheel until they come into contact with a fixed trough designed to take a stream of water ...
... buckets on pivots . As the flow of water turns the wheel round , the buckets enter the water and are submerged , and then pass up the rear of the wheel until they come into contact with a fixed trough designed to take a stream of water ...
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... buckets , lifted 12 gallons per revolution , made four revolutions a minute , and therefore lifted over 300 tons of ... bucket chains , the water could be lifted to a great height , at each level putting yet more power into the central ...
... buckets , lifted 12 gallons per revolution , made four revolutions a minute , and therefore lifted over 300 tons of ... bucket chains , the water could be lifted to a great height , at each level putting yet more power into the central ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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