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From: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington )
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Mr. Neumann?
Message-ID: <971@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 09:06:09 EST
Article-I.D.: umn-cs.971
Posted: Thu Mar 13 09:06:09 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Mar-86 07:41:29 EST
References: <654@ihlpl.UUCP> <609@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington )
Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN
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In article <609@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>In article <654@ihlpl.UUCP> ihlpl!bde (Bryan Ewbank) writes:
>
>>... an inventor named Neumann who had (he claimed) invented a device which
>>produced more conventional energy that it used.  The kicker was that this
>>device was somehow converting *magnetic* energy into electrical energy.
>>The US Patent office turned him down ... "impossible to make."
>
>Interesting that your article did not contain the phrase "Perpetual Motion
>Machine".  I would wager that Mr. Neumann himself avoided that term.
>
>Clearly that's what the Patent Office thinks it is; they got fed up with


PLEASE, PLEASE !

Let's not start the Neumann discussion again. Enough is enough. Read past 
postings if you want but let's not get in to it again.

Paul Fink