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... scheme , but he also went to the bother of making a model and testing it out sufficiently thoroughly for him to be able to determine that it wouldn't work , and to make a fair assessment as to the apparent reasons why . If only so many ...
... scheme , but he also went to the bother of making a model and testing it out sufficiently thoroughly for him to be able to determine that it wouldn't work , and to make a fair assessment as to the apparent reasons why . If only so many ...
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... scheme for perpetual motion , always insisting that the heat of the atmosphere was a fur- nace for his liquid air , and consistently refusing to admit that he lost any power in getting the air to a temperature below that of the ...
... scheme for perpetual motion , always insisting that the heat of the atmosphere was a fur- nace for his liquid air , and consistently refusing to admit that he lost any power in getting the air to a temperature below that of the ...
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... scheme can be depended on not to work , but it proves that deep down inside us all there is a latent belief that ... schemes and ask me ( a ) if they will work , or ( b ) why they won't work . Although as a design engineer I have built ...
... scheme can be depended on not to work , but it proves that deep down inside us all there is a latent belief that ... schemes and ask me ( a ) if they will work , or ( b ) why they won't work . Although as a design engineer I have built ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
Copyright | |
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