The following figure illustrates the knitting action of a V-bed hand flat machine and the another figure shows the underside of the cam carriage and the cams forming the tracks that guide the needle butts through the knitting system.
Milankovitch cycles are the collective effect of changes in the Earth 's movements upon its climate, named after Serbian civil engineer and mathematician Milutin MilankoviÄ.
It has long been known that Earthâs albedo must have been higher when it was in its glaciated state, but it was in the late 1950s and 60s that Budyko published a series of papers attempting to quantify this effect and to determine whether this would be the feedback required to enhance the effect of the Milankovitch orbital variation to a level such that large-scale glaciation could occur.