In one sense there is no such thing as perpetual motion.
In fact we get in space an example of perpetual motion.
This affords and has afforded a fine field for the perpetual motionist, and if only the current would maintain itself without a sustaining power, perpetual motionin fact would be attained.
How it came to be known that he sought the secret of perpetual motion, is beyond me.
You saw him coming up the road towards you and the words "perpetual motion" rushed, whispering, to your mind.
Amongst his various speculations while at Willington, he tried to discover a means of Perpetual Motion.
He continued his attempts to solve the mystery of Perpetual Motion, and contrived several model machines with the object of embodying his ideas in a practical working shape.
And yet in spite of all the absurdities involved, for many centuries men, regarded by their fellows as intelligent and learned, tried to discover the great principle of "perpetual motion.
Plato believes that the soul is in perpetual motion, but that it is immovable as regards motion from place to place.
Thales first pronounced that the soul is that being which is in a perpetual motion, or that whose motion proceeds from itself.
It was like some long nightmare, this interminable experience of muffled sounds and shapes, of perpetual motion, conceived, and carried out in darkness.
The Squire turned through a gate down the main aisle of the home covert, and the nose and the tail of the spaniel John, who scented creatures to the left and right, were in perpetual motion.
A perpetual motionmachine of this nature, too, is, according to our experience, impossible, and this impossibility forms the content of the second fundamental principle.
It will be necessary, in the face of this new discovery, to write a new definition of Perpetual Motion.
Now the consequence of this, and such like machines [assuming them to be as above described,] is nothing less than a perpetual motion.
A useful collection on the history of the attempts at perpetual motion, that is, at obtaining the consequences of power without any power to produce them.
I should have nothing left to live for, had I not happened to hear that he has a perpetual motion on hand.
But suppose I could get over that difficulty, would the contrivance have a right to the name of a perpetual motion?
I have been working for some time at an attempt after a perpetual motion, but, I must confess, more from a metaphysical or logical point of view than a mechanical one.
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