Brings back childhood memories. Enjoyed reading about these and the accompanying illustrations as a kid from the excellent book Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman. Nirantara Chalana Yantralu they were called in Telugu translation.
I read the same in Malayalam! That book was one of my earliest introductions to practical physics. He deconstructs pretty much all the early "perpetual machine" designs in the book.
I also particularly remember the chapter with the experiments with soap bubbles as being very interesting as a kid.
Yakov Perelman - Physics for Entertainment - https://archive.org/details/PhysicsForEntertainment-Eng-Yako...
I see that Astronomy for Entertainment, Algebra for Entertainment, Figures for Entertainment also exist.