Odd " Perpetual Motion" Machine? Wires, Spinner and Electric Contacts. Boy Scout Project Homemade

Some kind of Weird experimental wire device constructd with a spinning objects suspended in the moddle with a large construction nail balanced between coils. Your guess is as good as mine. Early Boy Scout elecrical spinner? Merit Badge for perpecual motion machine? Weird Science Project circa 1950 (?) Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb