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The wagon-wheel effect is exploited in some engineering tasks, such as adjusting the timing of an engine. This is also done in some turntables for vinyl records. Since the pitch of music reproduction depends on rotation speed, these models have regular markings on the side of the rotating platter.
Japanese pottery is thrown oppositely, with the wheel spinning clockwise and the right hand on the interior of the pot. [ 19 ] However, modern wheels powered by electric motors often allow for rotation in either direction, allowing the potter to choose which direction works best for their technique, hand dominance and personal preferences.
A rotary atomizer is an automatic electrostatic paint applicator used in high volume, automatic production painting environments. Also called a 'paint bell', "rotary bell atomizer" or 'bell applicator', it is preferred for high volume paint application for its superior transfer efficiency, spray pattern consistency, and low compressed air consumption, when compared to a paint spray gun.
Behind the finished vase are the spinning tools used to shape the metal. Metal spinning, also known as spin forming or spinning or metal turning most commonly, is a metalworking process by which a disc or tube of metal is rotated at high speed and formed into an axially symmetric part. [1] Spinning can be performed by hand or by a CNC lathe.
Description: Close-up detail of a female figure from the right half of the Chinese artist Wang Juzheng's handscroll The Spinning Wheel.Deng Yingke and Wang Pingxing, on page 48 of their Ancient Chinese Inventions (2005, published by 五洲传播出版社, ISBN 7508508378) suggest an alternative title for this painting as The Making of Silk Fabric by Wang Juzheng, Northern Song Dynasty.
Spin art time lapse. To create spin art, an artist initially decorates or drips paint onto a canvas. The canvas can be anything; however, the most common form of canvas is a small rectangular piece of cardboard. Before the paint on the canvas dries, the artist secures the canvas to a platform that can be rotated at high speed.
St Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor, by Marianne Stokes. The depiction of St Elizabeth shows a castle-style spinning wheel and a distaff used to hold the fibre. The Golden Spinning Wheel (Zlatý kolovrat) [40] [41] is a Czech poem by Karel Jaromír Erben that was included in his classic collection of folk ballads, Kytice.
Plate spinning is a circus manipulation art where a person spins plates, bowls and other flat objects on poles, without them falling off. Plate spinning relies on the gyroscopic effect, in the same way a top stays upright while spinning. Spinning plates are sometimes gimmicked, to help keep the plates on the poles. [1]