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... exhibition , according to Sellers , this shaft ostensibly gave motion to a grindstone or some other working machine , which device was in reality driving the perpetual motion . This was proved by the way in which the pins in the lantern ...
... exhibition , according to Sellers , this shaft ostensibly gave motion to a grindstone or some other working machine , which device was in reality driving the perpetual motion . This was proved by the way in which the pins in the lantern ...
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... exhibitions were made before capitalists in Philadelphia , New York and Boston , and demonstra- tions were made of a powerful force which Keely persuaded them was produced by the ' disintegration ' of a few drops of water . Such exhibitions ...
... exhibitions were made before capitalists in Philadelphia , New York and Boston , and demonstra- tions were made of a powerful force which Keely persuaded them was produced by the ' disintegration ' of a few drops of water . Such exhibitions ...
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... exhibition case of the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University under the care of Dr A. J. Croft who has traced its origins and made an assessment of its life . It was pur- chased from a London firm of instrument makers , Watkin & Hall ...
... exhibition case of the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University under the care of Dr A. J. Croft who has traced its origins and made an assessment of its life . It was pur- chased from a London firm of instrument makers , Watkin & Hall ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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