“Nuts & Bolts” riffs on the classic list of simple machines you might recall from grade school. These six devices—the lever, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, screw and wheel—revolutionized ...

All the hullabaloo about touchscreen voting machines and the lack of a paper trail got Joyce Dewsbury wondering about the old mechanical lever voting machines. How did they record votes, and was ...

This November there will be a vote on voting in Montgomery County. Voters will be asked to decide whether the county is going to replace its old mechanical voting machines, which have been creaking… ...

This video explores different methods that can be use to amplify a force, and focuses on three types of machine - levers, pulleys and gears. The amplification of a force is called mechanical ...

The main types of simple machines are wheels and axles, gears, levers, pulleys, wedges, and inclined planes or ramps. All of these are still everywhere in everyday life, even if we do not always ...

Officials in New York City are looking to reintroduce lever voting machines for the upcoming mayoral election, citing procedural issues with the electronic scanners currently in use. As the New ...