Gearboxes let engineers adjust servomotors’ operating speed and resulting torque. But understanding the two major types will lead to lower costs and better performance. Engineers have long used ...

Today's passenger aircraft house some of the most cutting-edge innovations in engine technology, and that list most certainly includes turboprop engines. In layman's terms, a turboprop is a jet engine ...

All factory equipment requires some degree of maintenance, monitoring, and replacement, but some need much more than others. One group of high-maintenance components are gearboxes. They are ...

Automatic gearboxes aren’t exactly new. In fact, it could be argued that the very first production car, the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, had one; it certainly didn’t have a clutch pedal. What’s ...

Sequential and dual-clutch gearboxes both allow you to manually select gears without a clutch pedal, but that doesn't mean they're the same. This video from parts supplier FCP Euro explains the ...

High-quality gearboxes have many uses in automotive manufacturing and come in an array of configurations that make it easy to choose the perfect system for the exact needs of a given application. With ...

These days, automatic transmissions are usually quicker to reach 60 mph than their manual counterparts. But a few manual ...

Over $113 million will go toward 12 aircraft nacelle improvement kits -- the part of the aircraft enclosing the engine. Additionally, over $39 million will go toward the procurement of 12 triple-melt ...

A bicycle gearbox is a mechanical system that can change a bike's gear ratio, enabling you to adjust your pedalling effort and speed. Gearboxes use a clever spur gearing system and are integrated ...

With the advent of the modern sports car in the 1960s, automakers have placed an increasing amount of focus on the smallest things that could help make their cars even quicker. Lighter bodies, ...

Automatic gearboxes aren’t exactly new. In fact, it could be argued that the very first production car, the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, had one; it certainly didn’t have a clutch pedal. What’s ...