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  • - Contrary to toothed-wheel power gears only series components are used, which are available in many developing countries.

    1. Objectives of the Introduction of Animal-Powered Mills 1996

  • - By using series components and since over dimensioning can be dispensed with, the material costs are low compared to the traditional toothed-wheel power gears.

    1. Objectives of the Introduction of Animal-Powered Mills 1996

  • Suppose the pinion on the axis of the barrel of the winch has twelve teeth, and the toothed-wheel, H H, seventy-two teeth, that is, six times as many as the former.

    On the Conservation of Force 1909

  • The winch must now be turned round six times before the toothed-wheel, H, and the barrel, D, have made one turn, and before the rope which raises the load has been lifted by a length equal to the circumference of the barrel.

    On the Conservation of Force 1909

  • Most other fixed parts of machines may be regarded as modified and compound levers; a toothed-wheel, for instance as a series of levers, the ends of which are represented by the individual teeth, and one after the other of which is put in activity in the degree in which the tooth in question seizes or is seized by the adjacent pinion.

    On the Conservation of Force 1909

  • My own telescope -- though the large toothed-wheel and the quadrant were made inconveniently heavy (through a mistake of the workman who constructed the instrument) -- worked as easily and almost as conveniently as an equatorial.

    Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. 1862

  • First, it included the endless screw working into a toothed-wheel, for boring steam-cylinders, which is still in use.

    Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Following up the presumed necessity for a more effectual adhesion between the wheels and the rails, Mr. Blenkinsop of Leeds, in 1811, took out a patent for a racked or tooth-rail laid along one side of the road, into which the toothed-wheel of his locomotive worked as pinions work into a rack.

    Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

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