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... discovery further and it fell to his pupil , Torricelli , to ' invent ' the barometer in 1643 . Various fluids were ... discovered that in a common barometer , the rise and fall of the mercury does not exceed three inches . The larger ...
... discovery further and it fell to his pupil , Torricelli , to ' invent ' the barometer in 1643 . Various fluids were ... discovered that in a common barometer , the rise and fall of the mercury does not exceed three inches . The larger ...
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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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