"PERPETUAL MOTION" CLOCK
RUN* ON AIR POWER OBEBBO, Sweden, .Tan. 11. . A "perpetual motion" clock which has been keeping correct time since it was mtxilji .19 year.s ago without being w;ound up, is still running in Orebro, .Sweden. It .works by changes in the air pressure. The clock movement consists lot' - seven metal boxes, which are affected by changes in atmospheric, pressure. The movement they receive i'roiu these changes i.s employed to draw up a weight, which turns tho clock hands.
It will not stop, ticking until it," wears out, and it according to ;the inventor, about otie ten-millionth of one horse power. „ w '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 11
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104"PERPETUAL MOTION" CLOCK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 11
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