Infinity machine
An infinity machine illustrated by multiple transmission Translation progressive immobility of participating, getting slower running gears . It seems that such a machine could run forever. Infinity machines can be found in many engineering museums . The machine can be built with gears or worm gears .
Example in the technology museum Dynamikum (Pirmasens)
The infinity machine has a 16-stage reduction gear with the same gear sets. The transmission input is driven at a constant speed that is clearly perceptible. The gear output is set in concrete.
It seems paradoxical that the gearbox input is driven without ceasing, while the concrete-cast gearbox output obviously cannot rotate at all. This can be explained by the fact that the "lost movement" is mainly compensated by backlash in the gearbox. In the example in Dynamikum , the exit of a stage rotates at a seventh the speed of the entrance. By connecting 16 steps in series, the ratio increases to i Ges = 7 16 = 33,232,930,569,601. Rotates z. B. the gear of the gearbox input once per second, the total of the translations results in that the gearwheel of the gearbox output would need about a million years for one revolution if it were not set in concrete.
Individual evidence
- ^ Machine with granite in the Technorama Winterthur, Switzerland
- ↑ Wolfgang Bürger: Only twelve steps to eternity In: Spectrum of Science , No. 2/2004, pp. 102-105