For a motor to power machinery, the local motion has to be translated into the ordered movement of other parts of the system. Organic chemists have now produced a light driven rotary motor in which ...

If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the ...

Problem: build a combined anemometer and wind vane where the pivots for both sensors are coaxial. Solution: turn an old universal motor into a step-wise potentiometer for the wind vane, and then pull ...

Gearing up to make even more complex molecular machines, chemists at the University of Groningen have created a molecular motor coupled to a rotor. The motor turns the attached rotor such that the two ...

What’s your secret evil plan? Are you looking for world domination by building a machine that can truly replicate itself? Or are you just tired of winding motor rotors and other coils by hand? Either ...

Four 140-hp electric motors power the latest generation of U.S. Army heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks. They use ac induction motors with die-cast copper rotors on each of four axles. The 520-V ...

Honda Motor has filed a patent for an aircraft design featuring overlapping portions of the fuselage and cruise rotors, with an inclined surface at the rear to reduce the overlap area. This innovative ...