Perpetually rotating wheel

[scorpio]

Hi,

I was in Austria in the spring. I have seen this machine work in the Technical Museum of Vienna. I went there first in 2003. At the time, was there and it worked.

Here is a video from the machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQ33OFljOg

and photos:

[TinselKoala]

And here is a description of the device, with a picture of its builder, along with other perpetual motion machines that he has made.
Many science centers around the world have one of these machines. There's one in the Ontario Science Centre as well.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/art.htm
Scroll down to David "Dedalus" Jones, where you will see a picture of the above device at the Vienna Science Museum.

[scorpio]

Yes, I read. But I have no idea how it works. Perhaps the night watchman change the batteries at night. 
...Or not...?

[TinselKoala]

Yes, I read. But I have no idea how it works. Perhaps the night watchman change the batteries at night. 
...Or not...?

I've spent hours staring at the one in the Ontario Science Centre. I think it is one of the ones pictured on the link I gave, or a close relative. It's pretty cool. I think it's powered by compressed air that comes in via one of the transparent plastic support pieces and then is channeled up a hollow frame member. It would only take something like a small aquarium pump to keep it turning, and the pump could be located under the floor or even in a light fixture.

[derricka]

Are you absolutely SURE about that TK?

Excerpt from "I, Fraudulous" by David "Daedalus" Jones:
"I complicated it with a number of cunning distractions, each designed to lead the scientific mind along one or other of several false trails."