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Simple Machines: Machines That Makes Life Easier

Find out more about the wheel and axel, the lever, and the wedge.

10/01/2025 | Rating TV-G

Science Trek

Simple Machines: Machines That Makes Life Easier

Clip: Special | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions

Find out more about the wheel and axel, the lever, and the wedge.

Find out more about three of the six simple machines: the wheel and axel, the wedge, the lever. Simple machines like these help us do work.

10/01/2025 | Rating TV-G

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Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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