Gear - A zine

g e
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gear
& things about ‘em
that’ll make your head spin
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gears are
every
where...
ADOBE STOCK
There’s no question that many things are becoming
digitized. Mechanical things to the average person
may seem outdated-- doesn’t the new age only use
electricity? Gears are for the factories or the quirky
cosplays at conventions, you may say. But if you
look around you, plenty of appliances and everyday
objects use gears. They’re hidden as inner workings
of an object. Kinda like our organs to the human
body. With less blood and guts, though.
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Teeth?!
gears have ‘em too....
they’re used for
& grip
smooth
movement
...not for chewing food!
Gear teeth are the miniscule
protrusions or ridges that line
the circular shape of a gear. They
come in many shapes and forms!
Without these gear teeth, friction
would slow down rotation.
well, what makes a
good tooth?
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pitch
the distance between two identical
points on two adjacent gear teeth
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angle
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the leaning angle
of a gear tooth
depth
the distance between tooth
tip and the tooth root
all of these help to ensure that movement
keeps going instead of slowly stopping!
(and that’s why physics is magic, BABY!)
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2 + 30 + 90 + 40 + 34 * 25
find the normal force of the
+ 30b - c = x, solve for the
quadratics versus linear fu
polynomials & binomials &
COG NIT
ION
noggin?
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turning
Are the
wheels
inside
your
have become virtually synonymous
Gears
with cognition, calculation, and contemplation.
People speculate this is because it portrays, in
a simple fashion, the process to a certain result.
It really makes you think.
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the
earliest
form of
mechanized
Before the metal gears we know of today, Grist mills and grain mills are one of the
there existed grist mills. Like gears, they earliest forms of mechanization, invented
use rotational motion to fully achieve in the early 1600s. Instead of electricity
spinning
spinning
a certain function. This motion is also
known as mechanized spinning.
or automation, however, these mills were
powered by horse.
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the movement for
INDUSTRIALIZATIONION
760-
1840
economic
changed everything!
The specialization of mechanical machinery
birthed factories, sending society into a new
era. Innovation and hard work was the mark
ociological
technological
cultural
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of this new chapter, cementing cogwheels to
be representative of productivity and labor.

G “
I was just a screw
or cog in the great
machine I called life,
“
and when I dropped
out of it I found I was
of no use anywhere
else.
Edith Wharton
in House of Mirth
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Speaking of productivity...
in 2021, the average American
office worker is only productive for
THREE
HOURS
A DAY!
That’s only about 60% of the
traditional 8-hour work day!
32% of employees’ time goes to
Facebook and other social media.
And people report being 24% more
happy if they can work from home!
WORLD’S OKAYEST
WORKER!
...Maybe those team
meetings aren’t
working so well.
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gearbox
software
studios
is extremely well-known for their
video game series, Borderlands. The
video game mostly takes place on a
post-apocalyptic, ruined planet known
as Pandora. With a complex loot system
and charming space punk planetary
aesthetic, the game won many awards
such as Best Shooter and Best
Multi-Player Game from the Spike
Awards 2012. Several of the most
iconic characters in the modern
generation were born from this
game. One infamous example...
!!!
...is this robot.
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gear
A ZINE BY
marianne
delgado
MADE FOR
argd 3060 type & image
FALL 2021
TYPOGRAPHY
Freight MacroPro
RESOURCES
Factory Picture
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>,
via Wikimedia Commons
Apollo Technical
https://www.apollotechnical.com/
employee-productivity-statistics/
Industrial Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/
event/Industrial-Revolution
KHK Gear Terminology
https://khkgears.net/new/gear_
knowledge/abcs_of_gears-b/basic_
gear_terminology_calculation.html
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