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The Office of Perpetual Motion

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An illustrated register of American patents for machines that claimed to produce more power than they received.

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This meticulous investigation reads patent documents sheet by sheet, then applies one clear test: what, exactly, pays for the motion? Of 14 patents examined so far, 12 were taken down as ordinary machines with hidden inputs, while two remain in the exhibition as claims of genuine perpetual motion.

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Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.

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Lost and Found, 1850–1900 rewardifreturned.com

An archival collection of nineteenth-century newspaper notices for lost objects, preserved as original clippings with checked transcriptions.

 Ink and Alibi Society: Crime Fiction for the Mailbox inkandalibisociety.com

An immersive crime-fiction edition delivered as eight sealed envelopes containing correspondence, evidence, photographs, and private audio.

 The Archive of Disturbed Houses disturbedhouses.com

An interactive archive of newspaper accounts of ghostly disturbances from 1662 to 1929.