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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

PERPETUAL MOTION (Waterfall by M. Escher 1961)


All the machines we use need energy to function: a television needs electricity, a car needs petrol, a sailing boat needs wind, a bike needs a person to push the pedals.
Throughout history, people have tried to invent a machine that, once it was started, would not need more energy to keep functioning. This type of machine is called a perpetual motion machine.
Many people have tried to achieve fame by inventing a perpetual motion machine. However, all their machines eventually stopped because the energy ran out. If these inventions had worked, they would have changed the course of history. 

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