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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US scientists invent water-driven gears for robots and machines that resist wear

Scientists at New York University have developed a new gear mechanism that uses fluid dynamics rather than interlocking ...
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This Touchless Gear System Uses Fluid Dynamics to Transfer Power and Rotation Without Any Teeth

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.

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, ...

Wolf Tooth Components adds 6mm Offset 8-Bolt Chainrings

Now you can get lower gearing for your gravel adventure bike without messing up the chainline & use modern cranks with older MTB derailleurs.