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... fraud being driven by some mechanism in the very large diameter axle . As already determined , its builder was at one time a clockmaker and even as early as this , clocks could be made to run for a lengthy time without rewinding . Forty ...
... fraud being driven by some mechanism in the very large diameter axle . As already determined , its builder was at one time a clockmaker and even as early as this , clocks could be made to run for a lengthy time without rewinding . Forty ...
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... fraud , for fraud he was sure it was , was perpetrated . As the afternoon wore on , Paine once again connected up his machine to demonstrate some other aspect . This time , though , instead of bursting into life at full power , nothing ...
... fraud , for fraud he was sure it was , was perpetrated . As the afternoon wore on , Paine once again connected up his machine to demonstrate some other aspect . This time , though , instead of bursting into life at full power , nothing ...
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... fraud could be exposed . Had this happened in his lifetime , at the very least Keely would have received a lengthy session behind bars ; at the very worst , he might have been lynched . John Worrell Keely was born in Philadelphia on 3 ...
... fraud could be exposed . Had this happened in his lifetime , at the very least Keely would have received a lengthy session behind bars ; at the very worst , he might have been lynched . John Worrell Keely was born in Philadelphia on 3 ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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