"Fascinating, fun, and functional." That’s how Clayton Boyer describes the gears in the Brew Tipper, his wooden mechanism that pours a bottle of beer into a glass. He adds: "I love creating geared mechanisms and gadgets."
The Corpus Clock has a hundred and one little interesting factoids about everything from its design to its unveiling to its message — and it’s just hanging out on a street corner in Cambridge.
How do you fix a stone gear that has a chipped tooth and has surfaces roughened by acid erosion and covered in black grime? You bring in an art conservator.
It's called GearHouse Brewing Co. It's in Chambersburg, a small town in south-central Pennsylvania. And it's fit for a gearhead. The bar/restaurant is decorated inside and out with more than 15 gears and gear blanks.
Last year, Hot Wheels celebrated its 50th anniversary. While a writing gig in manufacturing and engineering probably sounded surreal to the 8-year-old version of this author, truth be told, he was obsessed with Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys for most of his childhood. Somewhere in a box in the basement there’s a 1967 Camaro and a 1953 Corvette
that would still bring a smile to this face.
Before Dr. Who, there was Professor Quartermass (a 1950s BBC TV and film creation). And, in the-here-and-now, there is Elon Musk — a flesh-and-blood living legend in his own time — or mind: take your pick. But the point here is that he’s for real — not a fictional sci-fi icon.
Regular readers of Gear Talk, our bi-weekly gear blog courtesy of Charles Schultz, know that he is extremely passionate about building an educational library and keeping detailed records in order to best transfer a companyâ??s gear knowledge from one generation to the next. While we adhere to this in the pages of Gear Technology, itâ??s worth noting that technical journals, magazines and 1,800 page bevel gear textbooks are not the only way to learn a little something about this great industry of ours.