Rotating wheel having teeth which mesh with another cogwheel or toothed part, used to transmit torque, convert rotation to translation or rarely other purposes
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![Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0023820/full/880%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.
Date: 1845Reference: 46106i- Pictures
Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
Reference: 40730i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40868i
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Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.
Gladwin, George.Reference: 44399i- Books
The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.
Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.Date: [1947]