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The original patents for flexible shaft drives date from about the 1870s, hence they are well established for applications such as portable tools and instrument drives. However, there are a large number of proven applications other than the more familiar ones, and new applications are being discovered continually in conjunction with new techniques for varying the characteristics of flexible shafts.
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Wood, P.J. (1971). Flexible Shaft Drives. In: Bell, P.C. (eds) Mechanical Power Transmission. Mechanical Engineering Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01197-1_12
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