Mova “Perpetual Spin” Globe—“What's the go o' that?”

Some children drive their parents batty asking a seemingly endless series of “Why?” The young James Clerk Maxwell preferred the query, “What’s the go o’ that?” We might ask the same about this device, which uses Maxwell’s electromagnetism in particularly clever ways to provide the illusion of perpetual motion.

Here is more about Mova Globes. If you want one of your own, they are not inexpensive.

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Here is a video on how to build a DIY version

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