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wheel and axle
Sign in to savesimple machine which consists of a wheel attached to a smaller axle
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Vinony's link graph records 54 inbound references to wheel and axle, and connects out to mechanical advantage, China and Poland.
It is catalogued under topics including Simple machines and Vehicle technology.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- simple machine
- Part of
- water well
- Has part
- axle
- Image
- Wheelaxle quackenbos.gif
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- Commons category
- Windlasses
- different from
- windlass
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
The windlass is a well-known application of the wheel and axle.
The wheel and axle is a simple machine, consisting of a wheel attached to a smaller axle so that these two parts rotate together, in which a force is transferred from one to the other. The wheel and axle can be viewed as a version of the lever, with a drive force applied tangentially to the perimeter of the wheel, and a load force applied to the axle supported in a bearing, which serves as a fulcrum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wheel and axle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.