axle

Com/ It attaches to your car-axle and is a giant screw that splits wood.

It's an awkward lift that's used for cleaning axle bars that are too fat to grip and clean conventionally. Anyone trying that for the first time will look similarly awkward.

It has 6 ton front axle and in the rear it has an 11 ton and an additional 6 or 8 ton axle. While a fire truck has a ridiculously strong suspension, if you used that for an RV, you would get a punishing amount of vibration and shaking.

The red gear is held in place via the axle, and isn't free to rotate because of the crescent shaped portion on the drive wheel. The spoke on the drive wheel catches the driven wheel before/simultaneous to the crescent rotating out of the way and freeing the driven wheel to move.

A system consisting of two identical wheels mounted on the same axle and spinning at the same speed in opposite directions has a total angular momentum of zero. It will behave like a solid object of the same mass.

It's very likely that the Model S could also be driven away after the tests, since the engine sits on the rear axle and the only electronic component in the front is the 12v battery.

It's like a racecar driver not knowing the difference between an axle and a wheel, he doesn't have to know how to make them or even fix them, but he should damn well know what they're called. Understanding this issue is fundamental to understanding Unix, and is also a superb way of introducing some classical IPC methods.

We have railroad locomotives that can tell when an axle is just starting to slip, and cut the power to that one axle, so that the wheels never slip even at full power on slick rails. We have jet aircraft engines that can report when a part is getting close to failure, so that it can be replaced at a soon-but-convenient time before it actually fails in flight.

There is a lot to automate, for example shifting the trailer tandem axles or the 'fifth wheel' to more evenly distribute the weight per axle. I don't know how an automated truck would handle driving across Wyoming with tens of thousands of big tumbleweeds blowing across the road, would the collision-avoidance system be triggered?

But for this example, of someone designing a machine that has one axle going through another wheel, the better solution is just to move that axle, rather than trying to actually build a wheel with a shaft passer on each spoke.

Unlike looking at an engine and observing all of the gears and rods involved in making an axle spin, one cannot observe bytes of data travelling between microprocessors. I think it's that layer of obscurity that gives digital products a degree of personality that a car or hammer or pencil or knife cannot have.

As a result, a great deal of effort is expended in the developer communities surrounding these languages to reinvent the wheel, axle, spoke, tire, hubcap, and spinner, which prevents said developers from making things that are truly interesting. Languages which work with the "outside world" can be used to develop great software even if they are not popular, like Lua and CoffeeScript.

If there is any slippage or movement or anything, you've moved into the realm of kinetic friction, whether it be between the wheels and the track, or the axle and its bearings. > Axle bearings have pretty low friction ...