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...wind, current, sun, rotation—believing that if he did so he’d be able to create enough wealth to sustain more than a trillion people. Infinite wealth could be generated, he thought, by concentrating infinite power on the infinite resources of the earth. Unsurprisingly, his contraption??which was christened “The Satellite” but was little more than a glorified plow—failed to bear the fruits Etzler dreamed of. The Satellite and the mentality that would inspire someone to conceive of such a project is, Stoll says...
...bells and mallets that form the Kendall Band demonstrate theories taught in introductory physics, a course you wouldn’t normally associate with the contraption??s creator, Paul H. Matisse ’54, grandson of famed artist Henri Matisse...
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