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Among the artifacts housed at The Royal Society is a curious device purporting to be a perpetual motion machine. The creation of the late British scientist and author David Jones (aka Daedalus), the secret of how this machine gives the illusion of perpetual motion has yet to be revealed. Archivist Virginia Mills shares the backstory of this mystery and Adam takes a crack at uncovering how this implausible invention actually works!

Thanks to Brady Haran for bringing us to The Royal Society! You can find his Objectivity videos at    / objectivityvideos  
Learn more about this machine at https://royalsociety.org/blog/2018/09...

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Music by Jinglepunks

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