Have you ever seen a flag being raised, or wondered how a mechanical clock works? Let’s take a look at some of the simple mechanisms that they use. Pulleys and gears. When a flag is raised, it will ...

MIDDLETOWN — For many Americans, turning 18 and gaining the right to vote is a moment of great pride: taking marker to ballot and blackening a circle for each of their chosen candidates. Since 2005, ...

On Tuesday, for the first time since the 1920s, not a single vote was cast for president in America by pulling a lever. The beloved metal-lever voting machines rung up their last tallies in this ...

Can you drive a stick shift? It is a question people don’t ask as often as they used to, but it is still something you might hear one of these days. You can turn away sheepishly and pretend that you ...

Caterpillar’s next-gen 140 motor grader now offers joystick or lever steering, a new 9-speed transmission, enhanced ...

This video explores different methods that can be use to amplify a force, and focuses on three types of machine - levers, pulleys and gears. The amplification of a force is called mechanical advantage ...