After a couple of millennia of fiddling with gears, you’d think there wouldn’t be much new ground to explore in the field of power transmission. And then you see something like an infinitely ...

It’s roughly analogous to the gear shifter and chain system employed in bicycles. Transmission components are always mounted straight on the engine so that their attached belt and gear system can ...

Power outages need to be fixed fast ... But America’s already modest stockpiles of backup electrical transmission gear are getting critically low. One utility company in the northwest noted ...