SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

Muse | February 1, 2008| | Copyright

When he was nine years old, physicist Robert Park had a brilliant idea. He'd just received two gifts. One was a generator that attached to the back wheel of his bicycle, so that as the wheel turned the generator produced electricity. The other was a set of gears and axles. Now, thought Robert, if I could rig up an electric motor to run off the electricity from the generator, then the bike would run itself. Wheel turns round, generator makes electricity, current runs motor, motor makes bike wheel go round. The world's first self-propelled bicycle!

But his plan soon fizzled, says Park, who's ...

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