Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Adding a wood stove fan to your stove can help distribute warm air throughout your home. We tested various fans over a 3-week ...

[Dave] builds custom wooden orreries, which are mechanical models of the solar system. It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the ...

Making furniture from wood pallets is trending nowadays and very cheap. Pallets have been around for decades as mechanisms ...

Jiwei Zhang, Gerald N. Presley, Kenneth E. Hammel, Jae-San Ryu, Jon R. Menke, Melania Figueroa, Dehong Hu, Galya Orr, Jonathan S. Schilling Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...