Sentence examples for cog wheel from inspiring English sources

The locomotive's double cog wheel locks into the rack for traction.

Tap Priority and only specific interruptions will be allowed through - to set these up, tap the little cog wheel on the top right hand corner.

If you peer into the Richard Mille watch, there is always something that catches the eye; a cog wheel, a pinion, the movement of the escapement.

Later in the century Robert Hooke, an English physicist, first produced a sound wave of known frequency, using a rotating cog wheel as a measuring device.

The app's cog wheel interface.

Previously, the interrupter had been a mechanical device requiring the physician to turn a cog wheel or employ an assistant to do so.

The curator, Judith Clark, used two cog wheels that turned and at the point where they came together would be a dress from the past and its present version.

In a substantial work of paper engineering, including turning cog wheels as part of the front cover, David Macauley's How Machines Work (Zoo Break!) is a vivid interactive introduction to simple scientific principles all neatly wrapped up in a story.

All the working parts are exposed – rusty cogs, bicycle wheels, coils, springs and old sewing machine parts, connected together like some quivering Jean Tinguely contraption.

Many tourists visit the glacier, since it is easily accessible by the cog-wheel railway between Chamonix and Montenvers.

As well as rambling and biking, there is an enduringly popular railway circuit, which comprises the 3km-long Cog-wheel Railway – operational since 1874, electrified in 1929 – and the Children's Railway, an 11km narrow-gauge constructed by communist youth brigades after the second world war, and to this day still mostly staffed by teenagers.