Comment on Rotary JailsComments−desertrider126yIf one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls?Anyway, this reminded me of the mechanical fortress from Myst.−fake-name6yThere's a variety of motion mechanisms that can't be backdriven. A worm drive[1] is a common one.Alternatively, they could simply have a external lock on rotation that's engaged when someone's not actively moving the cells.1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive−catalogia6yWorm gear maybe, so it couldn't be back driven?
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If one person could rotate the whole thing with a crank, why couldn't the prisoners do the same by holding the bars and pushing on the walls?
Anyway, this reminded me of the mechanical fortress from Myst.
There's a variety of motion mechanisms that can't be backdriven. A worm drive[1] is a common one.
Alternatively, they could simply have a external lock on rotation that's engaged when someone's not actively moving the cells.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive
Worm gear maybe, so it couldn't be back driven?