Monday, February 4, 2008

The Impossible Dream

People in the early 1800's had been trying to create a perpetual-motion machine for hundreds of years, but what is a perpetual-motion machine and what was the most famous fraud of the 1800's?

11 comments:

.:*{briana alexis}*:. said...

A perpetual motion machine is one that would run forever and do work without a continual source of energy. The fraud is the keeley motor. This would break the laws of motion so this machine cannot be made.

Josh 41 said...

Perpetual motion machines are machines that were thought to make energy go on forever and be never ending. But based on the law of conservation of energy, energy cannot be created or destroyed so it is impossible to create it. The biggest fraud was by the Keely Motor Company in 1884 when the claimed to have finally created a machine that can create motion that goes on constantly.

chad said...

A perpetual motion machine is a object that would run forever without a continual source of fuel. The fruad is the keely motor. This would break the laws of motion because it would run forever so it cant be made.

taylorjo said...

A pertetual motion macchine are machines that do the work and that will run forever and also does the work without a continuous source of energy. Energy can not be created or destroyed, but it can only change form. The fruad machine is the keeley motor. It breaks the laws of motion.

Jon said...

it is like a machine that will keep going for a very long period of time. The perpetual analysis is just the machine that keeps going.

Mitchell Haaland said...

It is a machine that would go on forever and will never stop.You can'tcreate energy or destroy it according to the Law of Conservation of energy.

!~*Miranda! :} said...

A perpetual motion machine is one that would go forever and do work with a source of energy. But then the Law of conservation of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The fraud was by the Keely Motor Company in 1884. It is impossible.

Matthew said...

Perpetual motion machines are machines that never run out of energy. The biggest fraud was by the Keely Motor Company in 1884 when they claimed to created a perpetual motion machines.

Anonymous said...

Perpetual motion is movement that goes on forever without energy. The perpetual-motion machine is a device that gives more energy than what was put into it. This is impossibe becuase of the Law of Conservation of Energy. John Keely got lots of money from supporters claiming he was close to having made one. He said that he could get where one cup of water could make a train go. When he died, it turned out he had had a motor, energy source, hidden in the cellar.

Anonymous said...

A perpetual-motion machine is a machine that can run forever without a continual source of energy. The most famous fraud was the Keely Motor. This would break the laws of conservation of energy if it really worked.

travis s. said...

Perpetual motion machines run forever and work without a continual source of energy. The fake part about it is the keeley motor in it. It is impossible for it to work continuously because of Newton's Laws of Motions.