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Perpetuating the Dream of Perpetual Motion An Adair County Legacy: A modest proposal to observe "Lingan Selby Day," on the birthday of Perpetual Motion Machine developer Lingan Selby To ColumbiaMagazine.com: I always thought Mr. Selby's grave marker should read "Perpetually at Rest," but maybe that's just the orange and black mushrooms talking. And too, I've often wondered if that worthy gentleman would have had greater success had he been a lawyer. They're forevermore making motions... And on the back, "Quixotic questers never quit." It's at this point that my mother-in-law's daughter would kindly suggest, with the able assistance of a two by four, that I up the dosage of my meds. s/Jim Proud member of the Lingan Selby Perpetually Perplexed Fan Club According to local legend, Lingan Selby is the only one of Adair County's Perpetual Motion Machine inventors to die for the cause. According to lore, one of the Famous Five Hill Bros. of Gradyville, KY, invented one, but destroyed it before presenting it to the world because it was "of the devil." John Marshall Clemens nearly lost a family while working to perfect the machine which killed Selby, when the father of Mark Twain went down into northern Tennessee to fulfill Selby's dream. And of course, the quest for perpetual motion is alive, somewhat, in the development of the Dyno-Rev by Mark Karnes, though it is not purely a self-sustaining device. -EWLingan Selby's final resting place, Union Cemetery, photo by Tony Harvey This story was posted on 2010-06-19 06:51:12
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