20 Gifs That Explain How Things work... *Warning: Gif Heavy*

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#1 Zipper:

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#2 Illustrating Pi: Unrolling a Circle’s Circumference: 

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#3 How A Pill Press Works:

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#4 How Walschaerts Valve Gear in Steam Locomotives Works:

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#5 What a Tesseract (4D Cube) Looks Like:

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#6 Knight’s Tour: How a Knight Visits Every Square Once:

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#7 How a Caliper Works:

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#8 How a Constant Velocity Joint Works:

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#9 How Circle Strafing Works:

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#10 Proving the Pythagorean Theorem Through Rearrangement:

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#11 How a Radial Engine Works:

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#12 How the Geneva Drive Works:

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#13 How the Spinning Dancer Illusion Works:

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#14 How a Hypotrochoid is Made:

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#15 How an Alpha Stirling Engine Works:

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#16 How to Draw a Yin Yang Symbol Using Circles:

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#17 How a Wankel Engine Works:

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#18 How a Sewing Machine Works:

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#19 How the Sun and Planet Gear Works:

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#20 How The New York Times Crossword Before the 1996 Election Worked:

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damn, i forgot about this thread 
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i'll try to update it with more gifs this weekend, feel free to share as well if you come across any. 
 
Halp. I dum.

The part that's highlighted said Clinton elected the day before Clinton got electd in 1996

Each clue had two possibles (which goes against working out a crossword) so that the answer could be either Bob Dole or Clinton. Like the one "halloween animal" being bat and cat. The B fills in for Bob dole and the C fills in for clinton.

To configure a whole section of a crossword like that is very clever.
 
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This thread only works if you have a vague understanding of the mechanics of some of these in the first place. I may be able to serve as a tool for teaching engineering students though.
 
Each clue had two possibles (which goes against working out a crossword) so that the answer could be either Bob Dole or Clinton. Like the one "halloween animal" being bat and cat. The B fills in for Bob dole and the C fills in for clinton.

To configure a whole section of a crossword like that is very clever.

Oh, my gif never loaded. It only showed Clinton the first time I was in the thread.
 
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