"'IAN, YOU'LL COME BACK TO ENGLAND WITH ME?'"
["PERPETUAL MOTION" SEEKERS.]
THEIR FASCINATING BUT HOPELESS PURSUIT.
With Illustrations of Machines that have been Invented Recently.
PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE WHICH WOULD NOT GO.
Three apparently hopeless quests have engaged the abilities of inventors and scientists from a very early period—the Philosopher's Stone, that should convert everything it touched into pure gold; the Elixir of Life, that once partaken of should invest the recipient with immortality on earth; and Perpetual Motion.