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Can a wheel just keep on turning?
Melvyn Bragg explores the centuries-old quest to build a perpetual motion machine. He's joined by Frank Close, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford, and Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Durham University.
First broadcast on In Our Time, 24 September 2015
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