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Definition of Planet wheel

1. Noun. An outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Planet Wheel

Literary usage of Planet wheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"This wheel is called the planet-wheel, ... The next revolution of the fly will bring the planet-wheel, and the beam connected with it, ..."

2. The Useful Arts: Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science by Jacob Bigelow (1853)
"Alternate, or Reciprocating, Motion, Cams, Crank, Parallel Motion, Sun and Planet Wheel, ... planet wheel ..."

3. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Independently of the greater expense attending the construction of the sun-and-planet wheel, its liability to go out of order, and the rapid wear of the ..."

4. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"Now, tho motion of the planet-wheel is one of translation in a circle along with the pin D, compounded with an angular oscillation to and fro along with the ..."

5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, John Radford Young, Wm S Orr, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"The sun and planet wheel is a Kg. 263. . contrivance for converting a ... 264) gears with the planet-wheel B, which is caused to revolve round A without ..."

6. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"This wheel is called the planet-wheel, ... The next revolution of the fly will bring the planet-wheel, and the beam connected with it, ..."

7. The Useful Arts: Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science by Jacob Bigelow (1853)
"Alternate, or Reciprocating, Motion, Cams, Crank, Parallel Motion, Sun and Planet Wheel, ... planet wheel ..."

8. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Independently of the greater expense attending the construction of the sun-and-planet wheel, its liability to go out of order, and the rapid wear of the ..."

9. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"Now, tho motion of the planet-wheel is one of translation in a circle along with the pin D, compounded with an angular oscillation to and fro along with the ..."

10. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, John Radford Young, Wm S Orr, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"The sun and planet wheel is a Kg. 263. . contrivance for converting a ... 264) gears with the planet-wheel B, which is caused to revolve round A without ..."

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