Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an analog calculator that was way ahead of its ...

Rotating the nut causes linear movement along ... influencing the speed and torque change between them. Compound gear mechanism made up of 4 gears - gear B and gear C have a shared axel In a ...

This turns the attached gear which is meshed with other gears to divide the rotation rate down to once ... Of course, you could also replace the drive mechanism with something like an RC servo ...

In biology we can also find examples of this linkage, as in the human knee joint, where the mechanism allows rotation and keeps the two legs bones attached to each other. It is also present in ...

The Antikythera mechanism was thought to have been used ... in the spacing of the teeth and evidence of variations in gear rotation – are combined together for a more comprehensive simulated ...