Overall: Width x Depth x Height [max.360, 150, max.255]
Medium:
cast iron and brass on wood pedestal
Rights:
For educational use only. All rights reserved by the contributor(s) and publisher(s).
Audience:
General public
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Description:
This is a nonplanar mechanism. Imagine the four bar linkage on the surface of a sphere with all the rotary axes intersecting at the center of the sphere. The making of the four circular shaped links is a remarkable feat of 19th century machining. This linkage was called a 'conic quadric crank chain'.
The model is obviously not made at the workshop of the Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe and seems to be the Reuleaux model C03.
