Leibniz wheel

English

Etymology

Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673.

Noun

Leibniz wheel (plural Leibniz wheels)

  1. A cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators.
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