experiment to grow a chemical garden. He is also known for his series of fake perpetual-motion machines, one of which is in the Technisches Museum, Vienna. In 2009 a documentary film about his work and inventions, Perpetual Motion Machine, was made and shown at the Newcastle Science Festival 2010. He was known in Germany as a regular guest on the 1980s TV science quiz show Kopf um Kopf (Head to Head), presenting interesting physics experiments. Personal life In 1972 he married Jane Burgess but the marriage only lasted one year. He had a long relationship with the artist Naomi Hunt. He died in 2017 from prostate cancer. Bibliography The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes, (1982) W. H. Freeman ; The Further Inventions of Daedalus, (1999) Oxford University Press The Aha! Moment: A Scientist's Take on Creativity (2011) Johns Hopkins University Press Why Are We Conscious?: A Scientist's Take on Consciousness and Extrasensory Perception (2017) CRC Press , References External links Biography at American Scientist Online The Strange Story of Napoleon's Wallpaper – Page 3, David Jones, with picture and wallpaper British science writers People educated at Eltham College Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Newcastle University Scientists from London 1938 births 2017 deaths 20th-century British chemists 20th-century British non-fiction writers 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British chemists 21st-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century British male writers British male non-fiction writers Writers from London