Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...
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This touchless gear system uses fluid dynamics to transfer power and rotation without any teeth

From the chariot wheels crossing the Gobi Desert in 3,000 BCE to the intricate bronze clockwork of the Antikythera mechanism ...

Groundbreaking water-driven gear works without teeth or direct contact

Scientists at New York University and NYU Shanghai have developed a new kind of gear that works without teeth or direct ...

Gears Have Powered Technology for Millenia. Scientists Just Made a Game-Changing Improvement.

A new study reimagines the 3,000-year-old technology using fluids, avoiding the most annoying limitations of teeth-driven ...
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Fluid-driven “gears” could out-perform mechanical devices

US researchers have created a gear mechanism that uses fluids, rather than mechanical teeth, to generate rotation. They ...
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Scientists put teeth into water-driven gears

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

Liquid gears could challenge 5,000 years of mechanical engineering

The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...