"Advances" in Perpetual motion?

[kleinjahr]

One of the books the wife gave me for Xmas was a reprint of Gardner D. Hiscox's "970 Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction" first published in 1904. Basically an encyclopedia of machines and mechanics, beautiful drawings. Anyroad, he included a chapter on perpetual motion which is worth the price of the book on it's own. His comments on some of them are priceless. Politely sardonic, if not sarcastic.
Main point, however, is that the "inventors" keep repeating previous errors. Most seem to be of the unbalanced wheel variety and quite a few of water driven ones. I think the funniest one is #960, which I call the goblet. Basically it is a funnel with a tube from the spout back into the top of the funnel. Hmm, probably make a decent manometer though.

 

[vbloke]

Perpetual motion

The type of diarrhoea I had last week

 

[JPK71]

Perpetual motion

The type of diarrhoea I had last week

I can relate to that - or rather; it just lasted 4-5 days. Became so annoying that I started coming up with stupid theories.
At a dinner party I politely declined to eat any of the fine foods that was presented, with the excuse that; making the experiment of dropping a piece of fruit, meat, bread whatever from at the same height as my mouth, the fruit, meat,bread would hit the floor faster if I ate it instead.

 

[The Kilted Yaksman]

I think the funniest one is #960, which I call the goblet. Basically it is a funnel with a tube from the spout back into the top of the funnel. Hmm, probably make a decent manometer though.

Sounds like a Klein Bottle. See some at kleinbottle.com. They're neat.

 

[kleinjahr]

Not a klein bottle. It's more like a water level with an upended 2 liter bottle on one end and the hose directed back above the bottle.

Do you mean the Acme kleinbottle? Might be fun to take one of the beer mugs into a pub and watch someone try to drink it dry. Better than a dribble glass.