Table Saw Blade

 A circular saw bade from a saw-bench located at ETC wood-shop. The blade is a toothed metal cutting wheel. the tooth have a wedge form that cuts through the wood as the wheel rotates.  

Scissors (wedge, lever)

In my desk drawer in kinsolving. Scissors! photo by: vanessa manzano

Stapler (Wedge & Lever)

The stapler acts as both a wedge and a lever!

Brass Buttons Trail, Austin TX

By Makeila Sorensen

Tape Dispenser (Wheel, Wedge)

This tape dispenser combines a wheel to roll out the tape and a wedge to cut the tape off of the roll.

Ground Floor Moore-Hill Residence Hall

by Adarsh Nednur

Nail Clippers (Lever, Wedge)

This nail clipper uses a lever and wedge to cut nails.

3rd Floor Jester West

by Sarah Kriegh

Shampoo Cap (Wedge and Lever)

Explanation: This is the cap to my shampoo bottle. I may be completely wrong, but the actual cap is a class two lever (fulcrum is the end connected to the rest of the bottle, the load is in the middle where the cap locks, and effort is my finger pushing up on the opposite end of the fulcrum). Also, the white piece in the middle of the cap acts as a wedge and seals the bottle so that shampoo doesn't leak out.

Location: Jester East Dormitory

Photo taken by Justin Kim at 11:47 PM on 9/12/13

Sewing Scissors

The scissors are a combination of two first-class levers to amplify the force applied to the handles and two sharp wedges to reduce the effort necessary to cut thread or fabric.

Blanton 313

By McKay Proctor

Inside an electric shaver

This electric shaver has wheels at the bottom which spins the prongs, which spin the gears, which finally spin the wedges at the top.
By: Nicolas Lavigne
Location: Dobie Center
Date: 9/12/2013 at 825 PM

Swingline Stapler (Lever, Wedge)

The stapler acts as a third-order lever to create a load on the staple, and the channels act as a wedge to bend the staple shut.

711 w 26th Street, by Matthew Nelson

Scissors, lever and wedge

The scissors are made up of levers (the handles) and wedges (the blades).

4th floor of Kinsolving 

By Mary Claire Matlock

Scissors ( Wedge & Lever)

The scissors includes the simple machines, wedge and lever, allowing it to transfer the effort done at the handles to work done by the blade. They also have the wedge to separate the material into different pieces.
11th Floor of Jester West Residence Hal
By: Anthony Tran

Can Opener (Wedge, Lever, Gear, Wheel)

September 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM

This state of the art can opener available for purchase at your local Walmart employs an innovated combination of simple machines such as the inclined plane on the metal wheel which allows it to penetrate any cans at your disposable. The two spur gears will ensure any stubborn metal cans foolish enough to stand between you and this handy contraption will be cleaved to your desires with an exclusive first class lever handles capable of a mind blowing grip.

12th Floor of Jester West

By Tristan Emborgo

Nail Clippers, Lever and Wedge

The blades on the clippers act as wedges to cut fingernails, and the lever amplifies the force of your fingers create enough force to cut fingernails.
Taken in Jester
by Michael Sulkis

Pulley Winch (Wheel, Pulley, Screw, Wedge)

This pulley winch is part of a pulley system and utilizes a wheel for the rope to wind onto, a wedge to keep the wheel in place and stop it from rotating, and a screw to hold the parts together. This winch is used to support banners hung over a walkway.

Location: Bridge near ETC

Fan, Axle and Wedge

The axle serves as a central point in which the wedged fan blades spin around.
Ryan Lester

Lawn Mower (wheel, wedge, screw)

This lawnmower has a few simple machines combined together. Obviously, it implements wheels, and there are screws holding the handle together, but underneath there is also a rotating blade that is slightly sharpened and acts as a wedge when cutting the grass.
The picture is in a friends backyard on Stoneoak Lane, Austin, Texas
by Saul Carrillo

Scissors, Wedge and Lever. Rahul Shetty

This pair of scissors are wedges and first class levers because of the positioning of the fulcrum.

Scissors (Wedge & Lever)

These scissors use the lever to transfer the effort done at the handles to work done by the blade. They also have the wedge to seperate the material into different pieces.
1st floor Kinsolving Residence Hall
By Cassandra Tiel

Scissors by Colin Blackmon

It is a simple machine for sure. This pair of scissors are composed of two devices: the wedge and the lever. The fulcrum of the lever is between the handle and the wedges. The wedges and the sharp tips that do the actual cutting when force is applied to the handle (in a squeezing motion). 

Faucets: screw and a wedge

These faucets, at the Jester West 12th floor laundry room, use a screw to raise and lower a wedge that blocks or allows the water to flow.

Jester West 12th floor

By Andrew Dismukes