Bhāskara's wheel
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bh-skara-s-wheel-223-2800246
title:
Bhāskara's wheel
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Bhāskara's wheel was a hypothetical perpetual-motion machine design created around 1150 CE by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. The wheel consisted of curved or tilted spokes partially filled with mercury. Once in motion, the mercury would flow from one side of the spoke to another, thus forcing the wheel to continue motion, in constant dynamic equilibrium. Like all perpetual-motion machines, Bhaskara's wheel is a long-discredited mechanism. To truly overbalance the wheel and cause motion, t
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Hypothetical perpetual motion machine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara%27s_wheel
date created:
2009-01-04T18:35:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T13:33:43Z
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