#physics

Stories tagged “physics” in the Weird Science History archive — 10 stories connected by this topic.

• The Perpetual Motion Machine Secretly Powered by an Old Man Upstairs Eating Bread
• The Falling Cat That Seemed to Break the Laws of Physics
• The Physicist Who Levitated a Frog — and Then Won a Real Nobel Prize
• The Cat Who Co-Authored a Physics Paper Because His Owner Used the Word 'We'
• Galloping Gertie: The Bridge That Taught Engineers to Fear the Wind
• The Bathtub That Took 24 Hours to Drain to Test a Myth
• The Ether-Hunting Machine That Found Nothing — and Broke Physics
• The Motor That Ran for Twenty-Six Years on a Secret Room Full of Compressed Air
• The Park Ranger Struck by Lightning Seven Times
• The Slinky: The Walking Spring That Fell Off a Navy Workbench

Related topics: #cats #history of science #hoaxes #meteorology #science myths #19th century #20th century #accidental invention