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First take the case of a small gearwheel, say 1 in.
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The gearwheel is centermost, supported on an adjustable cradle like a miniature music stand.
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There are duplicates of the gearwheel and its brethren, etched in brass for testing purposes.
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That's when Rana pays proper attention to the gearwheel, the one she has been working on.
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The same person who had thrown a handful of marbles against the gearwheel in the watermill.
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She already knows every scratch and chip of that gearwheel like an old friend or ancient, bitter adversary.
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When the first barrel is fired, you cock the striker again and a gearwheel revolves the second barrel into position.
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And there is the Mechanism itself, placed on the bench on the far side of the gearwheel she is working on.
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Rana has been spending the last three weeks working with microscopically precise tools on the restoration of a single bronze gearwheel.
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If the cogs on the gearwheels do not interact, the machine can not work.
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Even the bridge sagged under those toothed gearwheels; the arches of the bridge will break, Granny Katarina's china is nothing to that.
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Then her gaze falls on the other gearwheels, in their plastic boxes, and she sees the same brittle corrosion afflicting them all.
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He tossed and turned in the first bout of what would be a nightlong grappling with the hot gearwheels of his brain.
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There are other gearwheels which have already been removed from the device for restoration, sealed in plastic boxes and racked according to coded labels.
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But by then she no longer thinks of anything at all, except the endless meshing of beautiful bronze gearwheels, moving the heavens for all eternity.