sprocket
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What came first, the sprocket or the oil?
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Over in a dilapidated shack on the opposite side of the highway, 24-year-old Nasratullah Raihan said much the same as he watched a repairman fiddle with the rear sprocket of his bicycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020
At the Central Wood Car Wash in Largo, Md., owner Paul Earp turned on the big conveyor belt only to discover a cold-fractured sprocket.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2017
The starter’s silver-plated gong rang, a sprocket turned, a valve opened, and the engine whooshed to life on exquisitely machined shafts and bearings.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
May 2: Tesla stockholders are dismayed when CEO Elon Musk announces he is changing his name to Spacely and that his company will stop manufacturing electric cars in favor of sprockets.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
The former stained-glass factory in Haarlem’s old town, lovingly repurposed into an art studio by Collado’s father-in-law, houses an unconventional mélange of sprockets and easels, grinders and paint brushes.
From The Verge ● Sep. 23, 2020
The films were shown on a 16mm projector which was in the room, so you could hear the rattle of the film on the sprockets.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2020
He daydreams of flying spoons and sprockets, of one-legged light bulbs and robotic birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2015
The sprockets began to turn, the chain to advance.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Mechanical Engineering
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