Variables were represented by shaft motion, and addition and multiplication were accomplished by feeding the values into a set of gears.
Also described is the practical integration of the electrothermal microactuators in a monolithic microengine that is capable of rotating a set of gears.
Adopting the ideas from contemporary waterwheels, builders began to use fabric-covered, wood-framed sails located above the millstone, instead of a waterwheel below, to drive the grindstone through a set of gears.
When the wearer walks, the knee's motion drives a set of gears which turn a small generator.In this section Kissing cousins, missing children Human races or human race?
That's the way of the natural order of things, but Carnot is saying you can never build a set of gears and wheels and teeth and whatever you like so that at the end of the day, all that has happened is heat has flowed from cold to hot.
The mechanically operated digital display of the second timezone shows tens of hours, single hours, tens of minutes and single minutes, all displayed by mobile microsegments driven by an assemblage of 23 cams connected to a set of gears and a triggering and synchronization system.
Because the machine is so complex, by this point a cyclone, not a set of gears.
Because the machine is so complex, by this point – a cyclone, not a set of gears.
A pair of donkey engines rotated the turret through a set of gears; a full rotation was made in 22.5 seconds during testing on 9 February 1862.
This employed an inverted pendulum that, when disturbed by ground tremors, would trigger a set of gears that dropped a metal ball from one of eight dragon mouths (representing all eight directions) into a metal toad's mouth.
