The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention

by Paul Scheerbart

In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from his laundry-room-cum-laboratory, hiring plumbers and mechanics to construct his models while spinning out a series of imagined futures that his invention-in-the-making was going to enable. The Perpetual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984115544
• ISBN13: 9780984115549
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 7.2"