Turnstile

March 26, 2012

What is 4 times 5? What is 5 times 5? What is 25 times 4?
Find theses numbers on this project.
Stop at each of the places indicated and show me your numbers.

A pawl and ratchet lets "people" go only one way.

With this gearing how many "people" have been counted with one rotation of the indicator?

4

20

Move the indicator to the last.

100

The little gear has 8 teeth and the largest has 40.
See where the 5 comes from?
There are 4 arms on the turnstile.
See where the 20 comes from?
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