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The other feature incorporates a differential gear on the axle, which allows the wheels to spin at different speeds.
—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
The highly complicated timepiece offers a sky dance on two levels and is one of the most accurate tourbillon timepieces on the market thanks to two oscillators with differential gear mechanisms.
—Roberta Naas, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
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First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of differential gear was
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“Differential gear.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/differential%20gear. Accessed 6 Nov. 2024.
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