Electric guitar and archimedes’ screw: what they have in common

  1. Step 1. Electric guitar — has part — Potentiometer. The volume and tone knobs on an electric guitar are potentiometers.
  2. Step 2. Potentiometer — is made of — Nickel. The resistance wire is a nickel alloy.
  3. Step 3. Nickel — is material for — Turboprop. The turbine blades are nickel alloys.
  4. Step 4. Turboprop — has part — Propeller. A propeller.
  5. Step 5. Propeller — evolved from — Archimedes’ screw. The first propellers by Smith and Ericsson were a variation on the Archimedes’ screw.

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