Cogs will get your mental gears grinding with its mechanical puzzles that require you to rearrange gears, pipes and cranks to achieve a certain result. It’s reminiscent of those sliding puzzles you ...

As a gearing executive at KHK USA, Dengel’s answer would be along the lines of: “Gears that use ‘module’ as the measurement ...

Many mechanical devices have been inspired by examples in nature, but it’s not often that nature replicates something only known to be made by human beings. Meet Issus coeleoptratus, more commonly ...

The very first computers existed long, long before the microchip-powered devices we use every day here in the future. And over the centuries, there have been various different kinds of mechanical ...

If you think humans invented the kind of gears you find in an automobile transmission, think again. Scientists have discovered that the humble Issus, a plant hopping insect the size of a flea, has ...

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Mechanical watchmaking is truly an art, and at no time is that more apparent than when luxury watchmakers flex their engineering skills to design and build impossibly thin functional timepieces free ...