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A Linkage used in the original steam engine to turn back-and-forth motion into approximately straight-line motion.
See also Linkage
References
Rademacher, H. and Toeplitz, O.  The Enjoyment of Mathematics: Selections from Mathematics for the
   Amateur.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,  pp. 119-121, 1957.