>Hi Folks!
>
>The following was sent in and I'm posting it here so all can check it
>out. Highly reminescent of the TOMI and the SMOT with some new twists.
>====================
>Anyone researching the pre-history of modern devices based on
>magnetic ramps with accelerated steel balls may find David M.
>MacMillan's Rolling Ball Web page of considerable interest.
>The URL is
>
> http://www.database.com/~lemur/rb-index.html
>
>It presents a wealth of information about rolling-ball clocks,
>rolling-ball sculptures, and rolling-ball perpetual motion
>machines. For example, it discusses the work of Johannes
>Taisnier (a.k.a. Taisnierus), a Jesuit Priest of the sixteenth
>century. He designed a device in which a steel ball ascended a
>magnetic ramp, fell through a hole, and returned to the bottom
>of the ramp to begin the cycle anew. Whether he actually built
>such a device is not known.
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