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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: PUZZLE
Message-ID: <6237@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 05:42:34 GMT
References: <24615@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <9916@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <9916@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> yphotons@athena.mit.edu writes:
>Have any ideas??????
[about making a DC electric motor out of magnets, paper clips,
thumbtacks, wire, and wood]

Check the early issues of Popular Science (circa 1958-1968).  One of
them shows you how to make an electric motor out of six tacks, a cork
from a bottle, wire, and magnets.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
                    ARPA:  dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu