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Gear wheels and gear drives

If you look at the complicated systems that exist today, it’s hard to

imagine that gears and gear drives have been around for such a

long time. In fact, they have been in use for thousands of years. One

impressive example is the mysterious “Antikythera mechanism,”

built over 2,000 years ago in Greece. It was used to perform auto-

matic calculations of the position of the sun and the moon. Even

then, gears were already hard at work.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

was already using lots of gear wheels in his in-

ventions in the 15th century. If you have ever

visited an old windmill, you may have marveled

over all the wooden gears in its drive mecha-

nism. When more stable gears were construct-

ed out of metal, they were able to transmit

much more powerful forces. It isn’t just the de-

velopment of the clock that would have been

inconceivable without them. Cars, kitchen

utensils, construction equipment, and indus-

trial machinery — all sorts of things use gears.

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