The Garden of Archimedes
 The Garden of Archimedes
 A Museum for Mathematics


Curves and mechanisms

F. Conti


(from the catalogue of the exhibition)



What is a mechanism ?

The problem of rectilinear motion without friction

Watt's mechanism

Tchebycheff's mechanism

Peaucellier's inverter

Hart's connecting rod mechanism

Curves, connecting rod mechanisms and profiles

The articulated quadrilateral and some applications









 

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