Inventors

  1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Inventors
photo of Mary Bellis

Mary's Inventors Blog

By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide to Inventors since 1997

That's Impossible - Perpetual Motion Machine

Monday October 6, 2003
The USPTO will not patent a perpetual motion machine, however, I still find the idea fascinating and I have put together a collection of interesting websites and information on the topic of perpetual motion.

Comments

November 19, 2007 at 12:40 pm
(1) Jim says:

There are at least 2 different ways to do this.
For the most part, it is considered impossible because of poor engineering. If you look at the attempts that are used to demonstrate it is impossible, they are of engineering standard that would not be acceptable today.

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Discuss

Community Forum

Explore Inventors

About.com Special Features

Inventors

  1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Inventors

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.