Except that the machine just inside the entrance (it’s gone now) was one of George Rhoads’ kinetic sculptures, NOT a purported perpetual motion machine. The electric motor running the ball elevator was always quite visible.
It wasn’t one of the Daedalus machines shown in bonser’s link, but it resembled a couple of them and was probably from his studio.
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And the Rhoads sculpture is stuill there – MilliCal and I were watching it intently just yesterday. They’ve moved it from the big atrrum with the polarized light mural to the taller atrium right behind the Main Entrance, on the side overlooking Charles River’s Back Bay.
But Steorn’s website is still up and running, and their forums are active. Steorn have posted to say that Randi has it wrong.
Of course, given that Steorn don’t seem to have done anything since their non-demonstration in mid 2007, they may well have actually gone out of business in a practical sense. Indeed, were they ever in business, in any practical sense?
Just funny business, as they say.
I’d lost my link to their website and I didn’t google it, so that’s my fault for passing on a single second hand reference. But they do seem to have been mysteriously silent for someone who has the most revolutionary discovery since Columbus thought he found Asia working except for a set of warm bearings.
Interesting, but no; the Daedelus models are a lot closer to what I remember.