The Helicies Home Page

• helicies
  • Archimedes water screw
  • augers
  • barbershop poles
  • candy cane stripes
  • coils/inductors/windings
  • comic-strip icon for mental state of confusion
  • corkscrews
  • crullers
  • fusilli (rotelle) and rotini (pasta)
  • geta (wooden sandal) tower
  • Helical Keyboard
  • helicoid
  • pigs' penises
  • propellers
  • slinkies
    • Physics experiments
  • spiral staircases and circular ramps
  • spiral notebook bindings
  • springs
  • telephone handset cords
  • tornados
  • whirlpools
  • wormscrews

  • double helices
    • DNA
      • protein zippers
      • Kinky DNA
      • DNA Animation Tour
    • caduces: twin snakes used in medical icon. When Mercury threw a staff between two snakes, they stopped fighting. Since then the staff has been carried by peace-petitioning messengers from Rome.
    • Sazaedo
• chirality (quick time movie)
• other references
  • The Double Helix. James D. Watson. 1969.
• Helical T-Shirt US Design patent D279,937 (6 August 1985)
  • description
  • figures: basic design (collar->waist)
  • figures: elaborations (double helix, sleeve->waist)
• swords and scabbards (sheaths)
  • linear
  • circular
  • helical