[HN Gopher] A 15-minute intro to involute gears
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       A 15-minute intro to involute gears
        
       Author : lapnect
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-11-17 07:52 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | kjellsbells wrote:
       | Reading this kind of stuff always makes me admire Victorian
       | engineers even more, who had to do all the math by hand, to say
       | nothing of the machine designs to cut and create these types of
       | gears and mechanical systems.
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       | I suppose they learned a lot from prior tech, like clockmaking,
       | but even there it would seem that fundamental problems would have
       | needed solutions from scratch (eg shear failure probably isnt
       | much of a worry in most clocks but would be catastrophic in a
       | steam engine).
        
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