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Re: Perpetuum Mobile invented !

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From: Alan Uncle Al Schwartz
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:00
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mcdermid@hcl.com wrote:
>In <4og421$m10@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <uncleal0@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>The nicest hoax I've seen is a digital clock with no power supply.  All 
>>there was was a big coil of many turns of very fine wire, a full 
>>wave bridge rectifier, and the solid state LCD Clock.  Energy from the 
>>vacuum!  Or from inductance with local electric wiring or EMF pollution 
>>re radio and TV.
>
>Hey, that's still kinda neat though.  An actual useful (sort-of) application
>of broadcast power.  I'll have to build one of these.

It was a litle LCD clock.  Add a small capacitor to store a little more 
oompgh between digit changes, and you have it all!

-- 
Alan "Uncle Al" Schwartz
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From: Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <uncleal0@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Perpetuum Mobile invented !
Date: 1996/05/30
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