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Watt's Parallelogram


A linkage used in the original steam engine to turn back-and-forth motion into approximately straight-line motion.


See also

Linkage, Watt's Curve

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References

Rademacher, H. and Toeplitz, O. The Enjoyment of Mathematics: Selections from Mathematics for the Amateur. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 119-121, 1957.

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Watt's Parallelogram

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Watt's Parallelogram." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/WattsParallelogram.html

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