Field guide No. 560
Impossible gearbox interlock
Meshing, technically.
Inside an oily green gearbox, a flat spur gear and an upright one pass straight through each other, teeth sliding through teeth with no gap to spare. The machine runs fine; the drawing would not.
Field noteTwo solid gears cannot occupy one space. These pass straight through each other’s teeth.
- Specimen
- No. 560
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An oily green gearbox.
- Nearest existing relative
- A gear train.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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