Levers are literally all around us. You body uses them to move, pick up a pen to sign your name and you’ll use mechanical advantage to make that ballpoint roll, and that can of soda doesn’t open ...

Have you ever seen a flag being raised, or wondered how a mechanical clock works? Let’s take a look at some of the simple mechanisms that they use. Pulleys and gears. When a flag is raised, it will ...

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world." —Archimedes The famous quote by Archimedes is fundamentally about the mechanics of leverage. You might remember a ...