Chebyshev linkage
Mecanismo de Chebyshov
- Date
- c. 1850 · confidence low
- Place
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Credited to
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Chebyshev's linkage is a four-bar mechanism that converts rotational motion into approximately straight-line motion, the result of Pafnuty Chebyshev's studies of straight-line mechanisms.
What it led to
- approximate straight-line mechanisms in mechanical engineering
- advances in linkage theory and kinematics
- applications in steam engines and industrial machinery
- comparison with Watt's linkage