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February 25, 2014 03:36 pm PST
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Ye olde history of perpetual motionmachines
Cambridge science historian Simon Schaffer researched the history of quack science's most iconic device, the perpetual motion machine. Cabinet magazine's Christopher Turner recently interviewed Schaffer about one famed demonstration from 1721, and the, er, perpetual attraction of such devices to this day.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/C67asygTMMs/story01.htm
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