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Drinking Bird Experiments and Studies
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Definition
A Drinking bird is a thermodynamically powered toy that imitates repeatedly a bird drinking from a water source. It is sometimes mistakenly thought of as a perpetual machine.
Background Information
- How does a Dippy Bird work? [View Resource]
- Miles Sullivan: the inventor of the drinking bird [View Experiment]
- Drinking bird - wikipedia [View Resource]
- The Famous Drinking Bird [View Resource]
K-12 Experiments, Labs, Lesson Plans and Science Fair Projects
- Generate electricity by evaporating water using a Classic Drinking Bird - Science Fair Project [View Experiment]
- Experiments with the drinking bird [View Experiment]
- Modification guide for a purely solar-powered bird [View Experiment]
- Drinking Bird Lesson Plan [View Experiment]
- Thermodynamic Drinking Bird Demonstration [View Experiment]
- Explanation of the Drinking Bird (video). [View Experiment]
- Gallery of variations, and "care guide" [View Experiment]
- Drinking Duck: Demonstration experiment (instructions and video) [View Experiment]
- The effects of ethanol on Drinking bird [View Experiment]
College Experiments, Labs, Studies and Articles
- Experiments with the drinking bird [View Experiment]
- Finite-time thermodynamics of an instrumented drinking bird toy [View Experiment]
- The Drinking Bird Experiments [View Experiment]
- The thermodynamics of the drinking bird toy [View Experiment]
Theses and Dissertations
- An integration of history and demonstrations of physics into the introductory physics course [View Thesis]
Patents
- Miles V. Sullivan designed the Drinking Bird in 1945 - filed for patent 2,402,463 on Aug 6, 1945 [View Patent]
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