Science Question: Why is the steering wheel on the ship large?
For my grade seven science class we are learning about Simple Machines and one of my questions that I cannot figure out is Why the steering wheel on a ship is large?
Because the wheel was connected to the tiller with block and tackle. A larger wheel makes it easier to turn. A smaller wheel would have been much herder to turn.
Actually there is some history behind the answer and a little physics. On sailing ships the rudder did not have any hydrolics to assist the helmsman to turn it. The large wheel gave him a mechanical advantage to turn the wheel. In very old cars that you can see in older films also had larger steering wheels than todays cars for the same reason - no power steering. Today the ships wheel is about the same size for the purposses of tradition. Latter super cargo ships no longer have steering wheel. There are a few levers and a lot of computer power to do the job,
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This also includes a steering wheel on the medium, in addition to a large sub and a firing button to fire your missiles. I found the controls to work pretty well once I got use to them and the underwater seas that I would be moving throughout.
