Overview
- Invaluable tool for the study of ancient machinery
- Uses illustrated examples to set out how ancient Chinese designs of the time can be reconstructed today
- Stimulates thought about new machinery for the future
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science (HMMS, volume 23)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books.
The historical, cultural and technical backgrounds of the mechanisms are explained, and various mechanisms described and illustrated in ancient books are introduced. By utilizing the idea for the conceptual design of modern mechanisms, all feasible designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain members and joints that meet the technical standards of the subjects’ time periods are synthesized systematically. Ancient Chinese crossbows (the original crossbow and repeating crossbows), textile mechanisms (silk-reeling mechanism, spinning mechanisms, and looms), and many other artisan's tool mechanisms are used as illustrated examples. Such an approach provides a logical method for the reconstruction designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain structures. It also provides an innovative direction for researchers to further identify the original structures of mechanisms and machines with drawings in ancient literature.
This book can be used as a textbook and/or supplemental reading material for courses related to history of ancient (Chinese) machinery and creative mechanism design for senior and graduate students.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations
Authors: Kuo-Hung Hsiao, Hong-Sen Yan
Series Title: History of Mechanism and Machine Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02009-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02008-2Published: 30 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37694-3Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02009-9Published: 12 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1875-3442
Series E-ISSN: 1875-3426
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 221 b/w illustrations
Topics: Machinery and Machine Elements, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, History of Science