What is "cog wheels"

Usage examples of "cog wheels".

He rushed to his physics laboratory where he destroyed an expensive chronometer to experiment with cog wheels, jaunted to the bandstand where he seized a baton and led the orchestra into confusion, put on skates and fell into the scented swimming pool, was hauled out, swearing fulminously at the lack of ice, and was heard to express a desire for solitude.

I had originally envisioned a collection of wooden cog wheels, but a brass worm gear was a lot simpler and more efficient.

When it had been carefully treated, scholars discovered a sheet of bronze with circles, inscriptions and cog wheels and soon realised that the inscriptions must be connected with astronomy.

He exposed the inner working of the mechanism, an intricate mass of wires and pipes, whirling cog wheels, and fluttering valves.

At one point they found a pit in the floor, filled with enormous gears and cog wheels —.

At one point they found a pit in the floor, filled with enormous gears and cog wheels some more than five meters in diameterall spinning and ticking away as though the entire world were running on clockwork.