Villard’s machine An architect named Villard de Honnecourt drew an impractical perpetual motion machine in the 13th century that was also an overbalanced wheel. His device, and other similar ...

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We see our share of pitches for perpetual motion machines in the Hackaday tips line, and we generally ignore them and move along. And while this magnetic levitation motor does not break the laws ...

Perpetual Motion Machines Over the past 400 years numerous inventors have proposed marvelous ways of getting something for nothing. All these proposals have foundered on either the first or the ...

“My father loved gadgets and worked on all kinds—wraparound windshields, perpetual motion machines.” Molella came to the Smithsonian to study the journals of Joseph Henry, the first ...

This is the trouble with the seekers after perpetual motion. They really expect something from ' nothing; they expect an efect without a cause to produce it They take a machine (A) and a certain ...