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From: gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
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Subject: Re: Perpetual Motion Machine (Honest!)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 18:51:28 EST
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> start laughing yet).  He claims that it is *not* a perpetual motion
> machine; he says that it gets its `energy' from the `magnetic field'
> (quotes are mine).  Well, understandably the patent office said very
> loudly, "No bloody way!"  So, this guy takes them to court with a whole
> bunch of "expert witnesses", including some scientist from
> Sperry-Univac in Minnesota (I think).  This scientist and a former
> patent official support this inventor's claim (i.e., they say, "it is
> true!").  So, the judge told the patent office to write up a patent.
> But they still refused...and that is all I remember.
>

Sounds a lot like the infamous Free Energy box that Tesla built many
years ago -- but that device is nowhere to be found...  I hope that
inventor doesn't wind up the same way.

Gary