Reconstruction of a Cog-wheels Lantern Mechanism based upon a drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci; Codex Atlanticus - folio 4 v. This mechanism, already widely used in Leonardo's time, shows us how passionate he was about the friction, performance and wear of cog-wheels for transferring circular motion from one plane to another. The Cog-wheels Lantern Mechanism meant that a motion in a vertical plane could be changed into a motion in a horizontal #13;


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