Full name: Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession

Author: Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780760709269 0760709262

An illustrated overview of perpetualmotion machines and their inventors. The deceptively simple task of making a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion machine designers. And, despite the naivete and even the blatant trickery of many inventors, there still exist a handful of mechanisms which defy explanation: * a vast canvascovered wheel which turned by itself was erected in the Tower of London * another wheel turned endlessly in Germany and was discussed by philosophers and scientists throughout Europe, including Sir Isaac Newton Similar books: Quantum by Manjit Kumar Thirty Years that Shook Physics by George Gamow Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segre The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder Before The Fallout by Diana Preston To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps by Peter Galison Uncertainty by David Lindley The Quantum Story by Jim Baggott Big Science by Michael Hiltzik The Second Creation by Robert P. Crease On the Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking The Perfect Theory by Pedro G. Ferreira Pendulum by Amir D. Aczel The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande