The linkage consists of a driver (left bar) and follower (right bar) linked by a coupler bar. While the driver and follower bars perform a reciprocating angular movement, a point on the coupler bar draws a lemniscoidal curve. This refers to a self-intersecting curve resembling a lemniscate. If the three bars have approximately equal lengths and the tracing point is the center of the coupler bar, the traced curve becomes an actual lemniscate with two almost rectilinear segments.

If you uncheck the "connect" box, the dots on the trace show the speed evolution of the coupler bar point with constant angular speed of the driver bar.

During the Industrial Revolution, Watt's linkage was used in the design of the first steam engines [1].