The Machine That Fooled a City: Charles Redheffer’s Perpetual Motion Con
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In the year 1952, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein made some exciting predictions for the year 2000. One of them was that, “cancer, the common cold, and tooth decay will all be conquered.” I guess we all now know why he decided to be a science fiction writer.
For centuries, inventors chased one of the most tantalizing impossible dreams in mechanics: a…
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