The Perpetual Motion Machine - the Story of an Invention
( German - Das Perpetuum mobile, Die Geschichte einer Erfindung - 1910 )
essay by Paul Scheerbart
translated by Andrew Joron
Published: Wakefield Press - paperback - 2015
ISBN: 0984115544 / 9780984115549
synopsis
essay / memoir / story of a failed but energetically inspired attempt to set such a machine into motion; it is a fascinating record, as the translator puts it, “of a two-and-a-half-year-long tantrum of the imagination.”
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( German - Das Perpetuum mobile, Die Geschichte einer Erfindung - 1910 )
essay by Paul Scheerbart
translated by Andrew Joron
Published: Wakefield Press - paperback - 2015
ISBN: 0984115544 / 9780984115549
synopsis
essay / memoir / story of a failed but energetically inspired attempt to set such a machine into motion; it is a fascinating record, as the translator puts it, “of a two-and-a-half-year-long tantrum of the imagination.”
awards
….