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Re: 507 Mechanical Movements
If you really have time to burn, check out this video, then read the 21 page thread here by the inventor that explains how the Newbould Indexer came to be. It's the 28th Basic Mechanism ever invented, and involves gears with a non-integer number of teeth to directly set an angle in degrees, minutes and seconds.

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...ention-159279/

Animated model in the Smithsonian: http://www.newbould.com/PM/indexer.MPG

EDIT: Do have a look see at the models here: http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/model.php
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