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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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PMOTION3.ASC
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This is a story from a book called FOIBLES AND FALLACIES OF
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SCIENCE, written by Mr.Daniel Hering in 1924.
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History relates several types of perpetual motion machines. The
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inventor's motives range from the ideal of pure invention to an
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attempt to defraud the public. Perpetual motion machines have been
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traced back for several hundred years.
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As of this date there has been no known account of a working
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perpetual motion machine which can be built and demonstrated by
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anyone other than the inventor. Although, we have heard many
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claims, we have yet to see a working model. This does not rule
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out the possibility that one could actually be made and
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practically demonstrated.
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The U.S.Patent Office receives about one hundred applications a
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year on perpetual motion machines but they are usually rejected by
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the office, without research into their workability.
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The keywords which bring about the rejection are perpetual motion.
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contributed by Ron Barker
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THE LIQUEFACTION OF AIR AND THE HOPES IT AROUSED ;
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PERPETUAL MOTION OF THE SECOND KIND
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Why should a little matter like the second law of
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thermodynamics obstruct the path to perpetual motion when we
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consider what we might achieve if we could be rid of it?
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The boundless possibilities growing out of the achievement of
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perpetual motion were too fascinating, its unlimited and
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uncomplaining response to the heightened complexity and increased
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demands of modern civilization was too satisfying for it to be
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abandoned, and every advance in science stimulated the hope that a
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new principle would do away with the limitations imposed by
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earlier partial and imperfect knowledge.
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By 1895 gases had been liquefied by the so-called
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regenerative method with less difficulty and expense than had
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before been possible; Mr. Charles E. Tripler of New York had
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devised apparatus for the liquefaction of air in large quantity,
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and a popular article concerning Mr. Tripler's laboratory and his
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remarkable work was published in McClure's Magazine for March
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1899. This article, written by Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, then of
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the editoral staff of the magazine, contained some startling
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statements and one especially which meant the refutation of the
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second law of thermodynamics and the achievement of the perpetual
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motion.
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Mr. Tripler said :
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" I have actually made about ten gallons of liquid air in my
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liquifier by the use of about three gallons in my engine.
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There is, therefore, a surplusage of seven gallons that has
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cost me nothing, and which I can use elsewhere as power."
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The very cold liquid air in the boiler of an engine would be
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vaporized and have high pressure under the heating effect of the
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atmosphere, without any other fuel, and the air thus under
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pressure would drive the engine which, in turn, would compress
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more air to be liquefied and employed for power purposes. The use
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of air for driving the engine constituted no difficulty either in
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theory or practice, but according to accepted ideas of science, as
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much work would be required in compressing the air and depriving
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it of heat as the air could possibly restore in again reaching its
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normal pressure and temperature. Still, there was Mr. Tripler's
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statement which he offered to verify in his laboratory.
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At the invitation of McClure's Magazine, through Mr. Baker,
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two professors, heads of the departments of Physics and Chemistry
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in a prominent university, visited Mr. Tripler's laboratory to
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witness such a demonstration. The visit, though made by
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appointment, proved to be not conveniently timed for Mr. Tripler,
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and nothing came of it except a brief comment from each of them
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criticizing Mr. Tripler's claims. This the magazine did not
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publish, and the exploitation of liquid air and its wonders
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continued. Those who had declared war to the death on the second
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law of thermodynamics were elated and exultant.
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Mr. Tripler resented calling his invention a scheme for
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perpetual motion - always insisting that the heat of the
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atmosphere was a furnace for his liquid air, and consistently
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refusing to admit that he lost any power in getting the air to a
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temperature below that of the surrounding bodies, i.e., denying
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the validity of the second law of thermodynamics. The promises of
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the liquid air scheme were alluring -bewilderingly so - and its
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friends were loath to give up the hopes based upon them. Posing as
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an exemption from a painful but inexorable law, this fallacy
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lingered for several years and died hard.
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Another example of the "second kind" of perpetual motion is
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found in a pamphlet entitled "Die Perpetuum mobile Theorie," by
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Franz Hoffmann, of Saalfeld Prussia. It was published in Leipzig,
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in 1912, there years after an international aviation contest at
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Rheims, in which the Germans were worsted and two years before the
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outbreak of the great world war.
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It is a rather involved scheme which winds up with this naive
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bit of patriotic sentiment :
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" Anyone who cannot understand that, there is no help for, -
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it will happen with him just as with certain gentlemen who,
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some ten years ago, had not been able to understand that a
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body that was essentially heavier than air could
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nevertheless lift itself free in the air. The consequence
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of this intellectual debility was that three years ago in
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Rheims we had to let Messieurs Frenchmen and Americans fly
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away from us instead of the Germans leading the remaining
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nations in flying.
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" Perhaps a gracious fate may preserve poor Germany from
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another Rheims humiliation that will come from the fact
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that not until other nations arrive in Hamburg or Bremen
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with their `perpetual motion' ships, will the German
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Michael awake from his lethargy."
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He implores every reader who still has any regard for
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Germany's name and honor to do what he can that, at least in
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respect to perpetual motion, Germany may remain in advance of the
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other nations!
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Submitted by: Ronald Barker,
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Vangard Sciences
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***** SPECIAL NOTE *****
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There are several other articles on the Keelynet BBS that you can
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download on perpetual motion.
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1. KeelHoax.ASC = The Story of Keely being a Hoax.
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2. Pmotion1.ASC = Overall history of Perpetual Motion.
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3. Pmotion2.ASC = The Redhffer Fiasco Story.
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4. Pmotion3.ASC = The Liquefaction of Air and The Hopes It
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Aroused: Perpetual Motion of The Second
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Kind.
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Jerry Decker and I will be working on some drawings that can be
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included into some of the articles. The current problem involves
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the time necessary to scan and edit the images as well as choosing
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the graphic formats (.PCX, .TIF, etc..) to use which will allow
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everyone to view them easily.
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Ron Barker
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