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MR. FREDERICK SMITH described in NATURE of January 28 (p. 294) a simple heating machine, which he constructed with a nickel disk, so that when heated before a magnet it began to revolve. A similar heating machine was shown by Prof. Dr. T. Stefan, Vice-President of the Imperial and Royal Academy in Vienna, in the course of a lecture to his students, among whom I was, in the year 1885. A memoir on it appeared in the publications of the above-named Society. The machine was thus constructed : nickel plates were fixed on a wheel, like that of a water-mill, and a magnet was placed before it. By heating a nickel plate before the magnet, it was repulsed by the magnet, and a succeeding plate was attracted, so that the wheel commenced to rotate.
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KARAMATE, K. A Simple Heat Engine. Nature 45, 416 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045416c0
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