Topical Guide 576
Mark Dorset
Gadgets: Splines
Where Do You Stop? Chapter 5:
When I got back to Raskol, he had one of the locks apart.
“And look at this,” he said, as if I’d been standing beside him all along. “Just two bolts hold these locks in the door. See? You can take one off in a few seconds—if you’ve got the door open. Now watch this. This little cap with the numbers printed on it fits onto this shaft and over the splines. […] See these little slots inside the cap? […] They slide onto these ridges on the shaft. Those are the splines. They make the cap turn the shaft instead of just turning on it.”
ResearchGate, “The geometric establishment of the spline shaft and the spline hole”:
Creatures: Imaginary: Splines
Where Do You Stop? Chapter 5:
“When the storm abated at last, Cynthia and I emerged from the cave where we’d sought shelter. A preternatural calm had settled over the sea, and the splines had come out to sun themselves on the rocks.”
DALL-E:
See also:
Gadgets, Electronic TG 83; TG 84; TG 433; Car Phone TG 439; Kitchen TG 457; Personal Computers TG 466; Hyperlinks and Hypertext and Hypercard TG 466; Mechanical: Compressed Earth Blocks Machine TG 470, Orrery TG 571; Fantastical, Useless, Self-Destructive TG 567
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