In the Niles Weekly Register of 1812, there were two mentions of a most interesting invention – a perpetual motion machine. Apparently a “great number of gentleman” examined the apparatus and were “satisfied that it is what what the inventor declared it to be.”
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Great find.
And to think we are still reading about free energy scams (aka green energy) 200 years later.
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Michael E. Newton Reply:
February 11th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
But today, the government subsidizes it.
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