wheel and axle
wheel and axle simple machine consisting of a wheel mounted rigidly upon an axle or drum of smaller diameter, the wheel and the axle having the same axis. It is fundamentally a form of lever , the center common to both the wheel and the axle corresponding to the fulcrum, the radii of the two parts to the arms. The effort (applied to the wheel) needed to overcome the resistance (acting upon the axle) is relatively small. The mechanical advantage gained by the use of the wheel is equal to the ratio of the radius of the wheel to the radius of the axle. The wheel and axle is not as efficient as the lever, since a part of the effort must be used to overcome the resistance of friction . In common use, a crank or handle often takes the place of the wheel. Applications of the wheel and axle are numerous in everyday life; examples are the steering wheel of an automobile, the doorknob, and the windlass. The effort is applied through a greater distance than is the resistance, but this effort is applied conveniently in a circle. In the treadmill, the windmill, and the waterwheel, the wheel and axle led the way to the utilization of power in modern machinery. Clockmakers were pioneers in devising ways of transmitting and controlling power by the use of the wheel and axle.
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Africa.(author visits Abu Simbel, Egypt)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: International Travel News; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...tremendous statues surrounded us in the Hypostyle Hall. On some of the mural reliefs...paintings of flying vultures. Beyond the Hypostyle Hall is a vestibule divided into three...enter the doorway of the temple, the Hypostyle Hall is divided into three aisles by...
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GIZA BREAK TRAVEL TRAVEL EGYPT IS A LAND OF ADVENTURE - PACKED WITH TEMPLES, TREASURES AND TOMBS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 10/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...stunningly intact including the early Christian graffiti. The hypostyle hall a forest of massive stone pillars has an intact roof...and Notre Dame cathedrals could be lost in it. The Great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 columns is still the largest room of any...
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(pounds) 100m housing project for Oatlands aims to breathe new life into run-down riverside; Parklife plan for Gorbals
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 11/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Scotland Housing Association, Tay Homes, architects CZWG and Hypostyle - has come up with a scheme called The Inhabited Park. It...quieter, cleaner environment. Architect Gerry Henaughen of Hypostyle said: "In that area the Clyde is absolutely beautiful and...
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Hit list
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...differing as those of Gordon Benson of Benson & Forsyth and Hypostyle's John Garrett. Benson is one of the established stars...likes of Frank Gehry, Richard Meier and James Stirling. Hypostyle has built its reputation in the area of urban regeneration...
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Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...represent an architectural type, such as the basilica or the hypostyle hall. These headings rather represent religious and secular...monumental types. For example, early mosques were generally vast hypostyle halls; medieval mosques often employed the iwan plan; while...
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Mosques: Cultural Representatives of Bygone Era.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 11/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...In places like Damascus, Kairouan, Cordoba, wherever hypostyle halls had been the style, it was easier to convert these...than create entirely new structures," says the author. A hypostyle hall is a hall or other large space with a roof supported...
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Exploring eye: stumbling upon Delhi's Hauz Khas complex, the AR finds a marriage of medieval architecture and modern consumerism.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...formed of residential areas for scholars or perhaps ablution spaces. I saw small groups of trendy student types sitting in the hypostyle sections of the building, talking quietly and enjoying the cool shade and views out over the tank, now occupied by parkland...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Pyramid selling; Children and ancient culture really can mix in Egypt - with the right guides.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 1/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...There was amazement, too, at the sheer scale of things: the vast facade of Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Luxor; the main hypostyle hall at Karnak with its 134 columns, each 22 metres high and, of course, the Pyramids at Giza. "I had no idea they would...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Gaudi's architecture: a poetic form.(Antoni Gaudi)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...between 1900 and 1914). Through two iron gates we enter into a magical garden where a grand stairway leads us to a large hypostyle hall. This hall supports a large upper plaza delimited by a continuous balustrade bench that twists in a serpentine manner...
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The times they are a-changin' as Glasgow's women overtake men
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...there are a lot at an age where they are beginning to get to the top of the tree in their career." Outside her work with Hypostyle Architects, where she is an associate director, Miss Meneely says the city is also much more "woman-friendly". "It...
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hypostyle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hypostyle , the chamber in Egyptian temples in which a number of columns supported a flat stone...clerestory lighting. The ruined temple of Amon at Al Karnak shows the most celebrated hypostyle hall, constructed in the XIX dynasty.
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hypostyle hall
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
hypostyle hall. Large room with a flat roof carried on many columns in rows, the middle rows often having taller columns to accommodate...
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Egyptian architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...open colonnaded courtyard was the great hypostyle hall with immense columns arranged in...for the admission of light. Behind the hypostyle hall were small sanctuaries, where only...additions; the central columns of its hypostyle hall are the largest known. In the temples...
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temple
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...by a colonnaded passage. Beyond the court lay the majestic hypostyle hall and a variety of chambers preceding and surrounding the...monarchs and priests had access to the chambers beyond the hypostyle hall. The New Kingdom was the most active period of temple...
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Karnak
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...obelisk that stands 97 feet tall and weighs 323 tons. The Great Hypostyle Hall, one of the largest single chambers ever built, covers...old gods, including Amon-Ra. Construction on the Great Hypostyle Hall was begun during the reign of Ramses I (reigned 1320...
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