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Simple mechanisms explained

Simple mechanisms explained
Email Below you’ll find animated diagrams and explanations of how various mechanisms work. Some of these have been crucial to major evolutions in mechanisms and technology, and allow us to do anything from fire weaponry to make cars move with the press of a pedal. Maltese Cross mechanism powers second hand movement in the clock: Radial engines are used in aircraft. Reciprocating movements power steam engines in locomotives: Sewing machine: Manual transmission mechanism, also known as “stick shift” is used to change gears in vehicles: This mechanism is called constant-velocity joint and is used in front-wheel drive vehicles: Torpedo-boat destroyer system is used to destroy fleet in naval military operations: The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine which uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating pistons: + Bonus – mechanism you can watch forever Leave your comment: You may also like these posts:

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Molecular secrets of the "iron-plated snail" February 03, 2010 Molecular secrets of the “iron-plated snail” Life isn’t easy for the “scaly-foot gastropod”. Ah, but the scaly-foot gastropod has its own tricks. Oh yes way. The upshot, as they write in their paper (PDF here), is that the shell is “unlike any other known natural or synthetic engineered armor.” Within the indent region, consolidation of the granular structure is observed within and around the indent. Beyond awesome. Being scientists of biomimicry, the authors surmise that if it were possible to reverse-engineer the entire shell — it’s not just the outer iron layer that’s cool; there are also two inner layers with gooey nougat that are equally important in defending the snail — they could produce superstrong materials for military defense and “load-bearing”. Fair enough. Iron snails, people! (Thanks to the Eco Tone blog for alerting me to this one!) <a href="

Aerospace Digital Library Gates Puts Feynman Lectures Online MicrosoftThe new Tuva Web site features annotated videos of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates believes that if he had been able to watch physicist Richard Feynman lecture on physics in 1964 his life might have played out differently. Mr. However, Mr. Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. The name “Tuva” was chosen in reference to Dr. Mr. “I do think that making science cool to people when they’re young and therefore getting more people to go into it in an in-depth way, I think that’s very important right now,” Mr. The Tuva Web site will be expanded with additional Feynman lectures in the future, Mr. Mr. “I couldn’t help myself, I watched them one more time,” he said. This post originally described Gates as a “freshman” dropout, that’s incorrect.

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