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    The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines. It was invented...
    3 KB (340 words) - 14:58, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Epicyclic gearing
    "planet") revolves around the center of the other (the "sun"). A carrier connects the centers of the two gears and rotates, to carry the planet gear(s)...
    37 KB (5,360 words) - 07:54, 14 March 2025
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    was never contested by Murdoch, however, and Boulton and Watt's firm continued to use the sun and planet gear in their rotative engines, even long after...
    58 KB (6,997 words) - 05:43, 7 February 2025
  • with an invention of their employee William Murdoch, the so-called sun and planet gear, patented by Watt in 1781. Nuvolari, A. / Verspagen, B. / von Tunzelmann...
    1 KB (114 words) - 05:30, 12 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ravigneaux planetary gearset
    has two sun gears, a large sun and a small sun, and a single planet carrier, holding two sets of planetary gears, inner planets and outer planets. The carrier...
    9 KB (1,138 words) - 06:56, 21 December 2024
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    engine, including the sun and planet gear and D slide valve. He invented the steam gun and the pneumatic tube message system, and worked on one of the...
    36 KB (5,389 words) - 23:15, 5 February 2025
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    example of a very early and intricate geared device, designed to calculate astronomical positions of the sun, moon, and planets, and predict eclipses. Its...
    83 KB (11,259 words) - 09:28, 19 March 2025
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    and Watt. Watt patented it in October 1781. The sun and planet gear is a simple epicyclic gear. The planet is attached rigidly to the end of the connecting...
    7 KB (522 words) - 15:54, 29 January 2021
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    Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781 introduced a system using a sun and planet gear to turn the linear motion of the engines into...
    31 KB (4,080 words) - 14:46, 6 March 2025
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    rotates around a slew base. This type of gear assembly is called a sun and planet gear. The axles may be multiple and are driven by DC-powered axle motors...
    4 KB (578 words) - 15:36, 31 December 2024
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    a flywheel by means of a crank (or, historically, by means of a sun and planet gear). These beam engines could be used to directly power the line-shafting...
    17 KB (2,103 words) - 14:53, 7 February 2025
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    used to automatically regulate the speed of the engine. Finally the sun and planet gear convert the reciprocating motion of the beam into a rotating motion...
    11 KB (1,164 words) - 17:20, 10 December 2024
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    October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" –...
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  • Thumbnail for Simpson planetary gearset
    commonly but not necessarily have the same gears and gear ratios, both gearsets share a common sun gear. The planet carrier of the first gearset ("first" means...
    6 KB (598 words) - 03:14, 19 March 2025
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    Soho Manufactory (category Demolished buildings and structures in the West Midlands (county))
    1782, it became the first site with a Watt steam engine with the sun and planet gear. It was also home to the first steam-powered mint, whose presses...
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    made illustrations for a paddle boat and war carriages that were propelled by manually turned compound cranks and gear wheels, identified as an early crankshaft...
    24 KB (2,460 words) - 04:16, 3 March 2025
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    Reciprocating compressor – Device used to pump gases at high pressure Sun and planet gear – Type of gear used in early beam engines Mobley, Keith R (2001). Plant Engineer's...
    3 KB (449 words) - 02:04, 31 October 2024
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    Asia (modern Turkey) and the 6th century saw mills at Ephesus in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and at Gerasa in Roman Syria. The crank and connecting rod mechanism...
    18 KB (2,001 words) - 00:50, 13 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Parallel motion linkage
    through a Sun and planet gear system). See the diagram on the right. A is the journal (bearing) of the walking beam KAC, which rocks up and down about...
    8 KB (868 words) - 20:13, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antikythera mechanism
    grounded gear (one was identified in the wreckage, and the second is shared by two of the planets), one gear used to reverse the direction of the sun anomaly...
    131 KB (13,335 words) - 16:58, 19 March 2025
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