Sentence examples for sprockets from inspiring English sources

In 1903 the "Wright Flyer", with bicycle-derived sprockets and chains driving its propellers, became the world's first powered aircraft.And as for Mr Penn's dream bike?

Technology's own greatest strength constant, frenetic innovation may also be its weakness, at least in the world of metaphors.Consider "click of a mouse", as in "now you can buy sprockets from Uzbekistan at the click of a mouse".

By varying the size of the sprockets and chainwheels, the rear wheel can turn faster or slower than the crank.

Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on spur gears, worm gears, helical gears, splines, and sprockets.

Power is normally transmitted to the rear-wheel sprockets by a chain, though occasionally belts or shafts are used.

Modern bicycles have up to 10 sprockets on the rear freewheel and 3 chainwheels on the crank, providing a theoretical maximum of 30 different gear ratios.

The chain coupling consists of two hardened-steel sprockets, one on each shaft, with a nylon or metal roller chain wrapped around the closely aligned sprockets and connected at the ends.

Upon outgrowing them, however, the young consumers switched to 10-speeds, so named because two chainwheels and five freewheel sprockets allowed a total of 10 different gear ratios.

In such cases, sprockets (wheels with teeth shaped to mesh with a chain) take the place of gears and drive one another by means of a chain passing over the sprocket teeth.

"What is the sprocket horsepower of the Chieftain tank?" he asked the British ambassador.

The first 8-mm film was made by using 16-mm film, punched with twice as many sprocket holes of the same size and shape.