Show t i 1 N Nobody ob odY Can I 1 INVENTION INVENTION of a perpetual moti motion on machine is A claimed by Richard of Ne New w York He has organized the Perpetual Motion P Power ower Heat and Light company and d is offering g worth of stock at 10 cents a share Dont Don't t crowd Mr great problem will be t to o fight off pirates For Eor jh the patent office re recognizing n that tha t tI I I 1 perpetual motion is is a scientific fallacy long since made a rule against issuing patents patents' on any contraPtion contraption contraption con con- supposed to run forever without outside ai Perpetual motion never has be been n achieved except in spending by congress Six follies of science six science six things neither you I Inor nor any anyone one else can do Perpetual motion isone is one In 1874 many thought John Keely PhiladelPhia Philadelphia Phila Phil adelphia a- a delphia carpenter had invented it The Keely II motor gave wonderful results But EUit it got its power from compressed air secretly conveyed The fraud was exposed after the inventor died He sold much stock Squaring the circle and multiplication of the cube are two other They have driven many mathematicians crazy I Fourth scientific folly is the magic black art I which mediaeval sorcerers sought and pretended I they found Magic Magis would mean doing Thurstons Thurston's tricks without I sleight of hand or other fakery Fifth scientific fallacy is the elixir of life Ponce de Leon sought it in a fabled fountain of youth V of Paris seeks it in monkey glands Sixth sc scientific f fallacy I is s transmutation of metals metals conversion conversion of iron or lead or other basic metals into gold or silver That men like Richard Ulra-ni Ulra still attempt to I achieve the six follies of science sh shows ws that there is always always' someone who refuses to believe that i anything is impossible I It is man mans man's s 's nat nature re to deny that he lie is limited in his powers Laughed at J jeered he lie defies precedent precedent and and thereby makes progress This I spirit ma may y no not t achieve the original goal but it will accomplish something Thus Glauber who I devoted a lifetime to attempting to change lead I into gold disc discovered vered a very useful salt that bears his name I Professor Frederick Soddy of Oxford says i that when man has enough radium and can work I with volts of electricity he lie may reap really Y be able to change changa lead into gold Six follies of science we call them now But will future man Ivan solve them and look back and laugh at us Flying was once onca called the seventh folly of ence It has been taker taken tak rl off the list |