Unworkable Devices and misconcenptions 1

[Pressed]

More about engineering than history, but educational.

The Physical Principles of Unworkable Devices.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm

I am not as sure about this site, but here it is.

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/miscon4.html

Just found them and thought I'd share.

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Feeling frisky.........

http://www.tailofthedragon.com

 

[Skogsgurra]

Read the

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/physgal.htm

paper with big grin on face. Grin disappeared when I read the concluding sentences: "Perpetual motion machines have mechanical features different from those familiar and useful machines. The inventor hopes that such novelties of design may produce novel results. But the result is usually failure"

Shouldn't it have been "But the result is invariably failure"?



Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

 

[TheTick]

Not necessarily. There may still be novel results, even if they are not the desired results

 

[Skogsgurra]

Hmmm...

Gunnar Englund

http://www.gke.org

 

[rmw]

Gunnar,

I think your word should be "inevitably" instead of "invariably."

rmw

 

[PBroad]

If humans make mistakes how come Murphy's law has no exceptions!