Letar du efter en historia om science fiction
"Mannen som lärde sig älska" aka "Brownshoes , en kort historia av Theodore Sturgeon , även det (oaccepterade) svaret på den här gamla frågan och den här ; först publicerad i Adam , maj 1969 ; reprinted på The Magazine of Fantasy och Science Fiction , oktober 1969 , som finns tillgänglig på Internetarkivet . Har någon av dessa omslag ringa en klocka?
om en uppfinnare som skapar en evig energimotor
Also he knew about transistors and double-helical gears and eccentric linkages and things like Wankels and fuel-cells. He fiddled around a lot in the back room with magnets and axles and colored fluids of various kinds, and one day he had an idea and began fooling with scissors and cardboard and some metal parts. It was mostly frame and a rotor, but it was made of certain things in a certain way. When he put it together the rotor began to spin, and he suddenly understood it. He made a very slight adjustment and the rotor, which was mostly cardboard, uttered a shrill rising sound and spun so fast that the axle, a ten-penny nail, chewed right through the cardboard bearings and the rotor took off and flew across the room, showering little unglued metal bits.
Jag kommer ihåg att uppfinnaren bara vill släppa ut den till världen för att ge alla fri obegränsad energi, men fruktar regeringens och företagens repressalier,
He also thought of making blueprints and scattering millions of copies over cities all over the world, and of finding good ethical scientists and engineers and banding them together into a firm which would manufacture and license the device and use it only for good things. Well you can do that with a new kind of rat-killer or sewing machine, but not with something so potent that it will change the face of the earth, eliminate hunger, smog, and the rape of raw materials — not when it will also eliminate the petro-chemical industry (except for dyes and plastics), the electric power companies, the internal combustion engine and everything involved in making it and fueling it, and even atomic energy for most of its purposes.
Så ställer han motorn i en tvättmaskin och säljer det.
Inte en tvättmaskin:
When it was time he redesigned his device, not with cardboard and glue, but with machined parts that were 70% monkey-puzzle — mechanical motions that cancelled each other, and wiring which energized coils which shorted themselves out. He patented parts and certain groupings of parts, and finally the whole contraption. He then took his degrees and graduate degrees, his published scholarly papers, his patents and his short hair-cut, together with a letter of introduction from his pastor, to a bank, and borrowed enough to buy into a failing company which made portable conveyor belts. His device was built into the drive segment, and he went on the road to sell the thing. It sold very well. It should. A six-volt automobile battery would load coal with that thing for a year without needing replacement or recharging, and no wonder, because the loading was being powered by that little black lump in the drive segment, which, though no bigger than a breadbox, and requiring no fuel, would silently and powerfully spin a shaft until the bearings wore out.