Talk:Mechanical amplifier

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Torque amplifier

It looks like torque amplifier is the only purely mechanical amplifier out there. The rest that I found are fluidic, hydraulic, pneumatic or partly electric. That's why the redirect to Torque amplifier. Olli Niemitalo (talk) 11:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This redirect is misleading. Torque amplifier is a subset of mechanical amplifier. Mechanical amplifier include a wide variety of things. Amplification of linear mechanical quantities such as force and displacement as well as rotational quantities such as torque are all encompassed under this umbrella term. Therefore, a separate page dedicated to generic mechanical amplifiers should be set up rather than redirecting to a narrow subset. Textbooks include: ^[1] Vibrationexpert (talk) 21:15, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was a stub article created, but the content never arrived. If you can provide cited information on other types of mechanical amplifiers, by all means, be WP:BOLD and recreate the article. ~KvnG 03:56, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There's a beginning of an article in my user space but it doesn't cite any sources and I'm no expert. Vibrationexpert, you had a great draft in the making, but it appears to be deleted now; I hope that it still somehow remains and that you will publish it. Olli Niemitalo (talk) 19:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The current article appears to be from Vibrationexpert's draft. Good. Olli Niemitalo (talk) 17:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I came here looking for linear amplifiers and I agree with Olli Niemitalo that basically none of the devices listed now are actual amplifiers. The torque amplifier and Auxetophone exist, so we should at least add those two. But I have found nothing similar for linear motion. One option is combining a torque amplifier with two cranks, but I'd like to find a more elegant mechanism in the literature that we could present. KetchupSalt (talk) 10:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New article creation in place of the redirect to torque amplifier

Declined but later approved by editor AppleJack-7 on 6th June 2013, "Feel free to merge the article into that namespace then." This article was written as a collective work by a group of people. Please kindly help to improve the article further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelfaraday1791 (talk • contribs) 11:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ B.C. Nakra and K.K. Chaudhry, (1985), Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-07-048296-9

[1] B.C. Nakra and K.K. Chaudhry, (1985), Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-07-048296-9

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