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Show Perpetual Motion Discredited. It scemsNinrdly credible, but up to tho year 1772, thero wns no scientist Jn all Europo who knew enough to categorically deny thnt thcro was such a thing as perpetual motion. It remained for Sir Isaac Newton and the French scientist, Do La Hire, to demonstrate boyond doubt tho Impossibility Im-possibility of attaining it. Quito a llttlo tlmo passed before tho scientific world in general was willing to accept tho Nowtonlnn theory, the-ory, but Anally tho French Academy I of Sclenco nt Paris, in 1770, publicly ! declared that perpetual motion was ' an Impossibility and thereby branded all thoso who still Insisted upon experimenting ex-perimenting with It as charlatnnBv-Pittsburgh charlatnnBv-Pittsburgh Lender. |