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These might include levers, wheels and axles, pulleys, or inclined planes.
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Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
The inclined plane is the simplest of the simple machines, but it's been instrumental in everything from (most likely) building the Pyramids to making canals navigable.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
Or, as Lee has field-tested, they could be placed on sleds and moved up an inclined plane along a ladder-like apparatus, levered from one wrung to the next.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
This suggests, at least to some researchers, that flapping up an inclined plane could have been a bridge between running and flying.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
Salvage experts turned to parbuckling — using a sling to right a vessel on an inclined plane.
—Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2014
The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
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Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
The inclined plane is the simplest of the simple machines, but it's been instrumental in everything from (most likely) building the Pyramids to making canals navigable.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
Or, as Lee has field-tested, they could be placed on sleds and moved up an inclined plane along a ladder-like apparatus, levered from one wrung to the next.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
This suggests, at least to some researchers, that flapping up an inclined plane could have been a bridge between running and flying.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
Salvage experts turned to parbuckling — using a sling to right a vessel on an inclined plane.
—Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2014
The threads are a form of inclined plane or wedge, the simplest type of tool.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
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“Inclined plane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inclined%20plane. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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