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Uncles Perpetual Motion Toy

It was years later before I realized what I had seen, and by then my uncle had died. I talked to his sons and they remembered the toy working the same as I did, but they didn't know what had happened to it, but said that my uncle had probably taken it apart and used the parts on other of his tinkering. They said that this was usually what he did, once the boys had tired of one of the toys he'd built for them, he would take it apart and build something else from it. I don't know if my uncle knew that he had violated the "laws" of physics with his toy. I doubt it, he probably just wanted to make something that would run without help and so he built it. I asked the boys if he had built other toys or machines that ran by themselves, and they didn't know of any. I questioned them about if there was a motor or anything on the toy, being I was young, and may not have been aware of it. They assured me that there was nothing on it and the marbles made it run. They said that it had run for weeks at one time and then stopped, and my uncle had cleaned it and it again worked.
Uncles Perpetual Motion Toy


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