3 Most Incredible Attempts at Perpetual Motion Machines
Can we ever build a machine that runs forever?
For centuries, inventors and dreamers alike have been obsessed by the idea of creating a machine that can run forever without any use of external energy source. This magical concept has led to an immediate chase stating that it cannot be done, but in reality this has led to some of the most ingenious, whimsical and downright brilliant designs that have ever been thought up in world history.
Although the laws of physics offers an absolute negativity to such a possibility, it shows that human never slack in their experimentations. Focus on the greatest attempts to the impossible and see how science, dream, and endeavor have combined to make possible what once seemed inconceivable.
1- The Classic Dream of an Overbalanced Wheel
The overbalanced wheel, also called “Bhaskara’s wheel” was fitted with weights on movable arms, designed to specifically shift as the wheels rotate, allowing it to spin endlessly. This idea dates back to the 12th Century when an Indian mathematician Bhāskara II proposed the concept.
The inventors expected and hypothesized that where there were weights in motion, there would always be a relative constantly causing imbalance…
