THE VIDEO SHELF · differential gears
How Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)
A 1930s Chevrolet training film explaining the principles and development of the differential gear. It builds the idea step by step from first principles to the finished mechanism.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN loves it as an example of old-school instructional film that makes how a differential works fully understandable in clear, simple language.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- ConceptVBS
- Topic
- differential gears
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In case you're interested, here are two of the best video's I've seen describing how a watch works ( [LINK] ) and how a differential works ( [VIDEO] ) Don't let their old school-ness throw you off. They are both extremely well done and demonstrate …
Sukotto on Hacker News · 2013-07
In Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chainsNeat site. My father was a mechanic and thus I should know all of this stuff, but I wasted away my life behind the keyboard instead :D I often find videos do a much better job at explaining some concepts. For example, the section on …
nogridbag on Hacker News · 2015-07
In How a car works (2012)These old-school education videos are such a treat. One of my favorite is on differential gearing - [VIDEO] (apologies about the clickbait title)
anitil on Hacker News · 2020-04
In How to Use a Differential Analyzer
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