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Schematic animation of Watt's sun and planet gears. The Sun is yellow, the planet red, the reciprocating crank is blue, the flywheel is green and the driveshaft is grey. Notice that the sun and flywheel rotate twice for every rotation of the planet.
It was likely invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, but was patented by James Watt in October 1781. It played an important part in the development of devices for rotative motion in the Industrial Revolution.
The sun and planet gear converted the vertical motion of a beam, driven by a small steam engine, into circular motion using a 'planet,' a cogwheel fixed at the end of the pumping rod (connected to the beam) of the engine. With the motion of the beam, this revolved around, and turned, the 'sun,' a larger rotating cog which turned the drive shaft, thus generating rotary motion. An interesting feature of this arrangement, when compared to that of a simple crank, is that when both sun and planet have the same number of teeth,the drive shaft completes two revolutions for each stroke of the beam and not a 1:1 ratio as expected.
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See also
Epicyclic gearing
External links
★ Sun and planet gear animation
★ Henry Ford Museum Watt Rotative Engine
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