Caveat: Three Gears Arranged in a Triangle Cannot Turn

3gears2Here is a truly useless but intriguing gadget someone made, to disprove the idea that three gears arranged in a triangle cannot turn.

[daily log: walking, 6.5km]

One comment

  1. David

    I wouldn’t call it a disproof of the original theorem since, in any plane perpendicular to the axes of rotation, one of the gears is always disengaged from the other two.
    Still, as he says, it’s fun to watch.

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