I have had this thing for about 30 years.
Update(20081217)Now it is about 40 years and I update this as I went to the Tech Museum in San Jose CA for the Exhibit of the work of Leonardo da Vinci and recognized this in one of his machines. I also found out that he thinks like I do. So I checked and he is suspected as having Asperger's Syndrome
66.249.71.19 is this your IP?
Microsoft web crawler hitting this page on 20090425
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A fossel from the Paleolithic age of computers.

Figure 1.
Notice that shiny part that is a small, horizontal cylinder one fourth from the left side of the image and half way down. That is the input spindal for that side of the machine.

Figure 2.
At the very top is a spindal I assign as the output shaft. The lighting shows off the groves in the face of the flywheel.

Figure 3.
Right below this output shaft and inside the shape that reminds you of the accelerator displayed in the traffic loop at Lawrence Hall of Science is a shape that is like a backwards "C" with a thick back. Below it and to its right is an oval shape.

Figure 4.

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Figure 7.
That oval shape noted in Fig 3. is shown here. You can see that there is another such shape on the other side. Offset in height.

Figure 8.

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Figure 14.
Here you can see that the oval shape in Fig. 3 is a wheel. The teeth in its edge mesh with the lower teeth in the backwards "C" which is really part of the planetary gear. The upper teeth mesh with the gear for the flywheel on the other side.

Figure 15.
Here the perceptive among you may observe the cluster of three in the center as ball bearings. The lower of the three engages the gear on the rim of the flywheel as the output from the coaxial planetary gear set concealed within the device. The upper of the cluster is the axis of the other planetary gear concealed within and outputs to the rim gear of the flywheel on the other side. The input shaft in the center of the cluster inputs to both the upper and the lower planetary gear set as does the input shaft on the other side also input to both the upper and lower planetary gear set.

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Figure 20.
Here you can see the detail of the spiral row of teeth.

Figure 21.
Here^ is the shaft I twisted clockwise until the traveling small gear was driven to the top of the shaft running up from the axis of the large wheel.

Figure 22.
In this shot you can begin to see the serrations at the top of the large wheel. These are teeth in the same fashion that the flywheel on your car has teeth that the starter engages every time you start your car.

FIgure 23.
In this shot see right ^ above the caret the gear that engages the teeth on the rim of the flywheel.

Figure 24.
In the upper center you may perceive the teeth of the rim gear.

Figure 25.
You can see here the bearing that is part of a cluster of three and closest to bottom center has gears that are meshed with the rim gear of the flywheel on this other side. If you look carefully in the upper right corner you can see the rim gears.

Figure 26.
Here is another shot without the trash in the background Any questions?