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A person examining the interior of a mechanical clock cannot fail to be amazed at the number of gear wheels it contains. These gear wheels ensure that the clock’s hands revolve at a certain speed by converting the oscillations of the internal energy source, usually at one-second intervals, into a one-hour cycle for the minute hand and a twelve-hour cycle for the hour hand.
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Crato, N. (2010). Gear Wheels. In: Figuring It Out. Copernicus, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3_13
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