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Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

Proceedings of the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Carlos López-Cajún

    1. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

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  2. Marco Ceccarelli

    1. LARM: Lab. of Robotics and Mechatronics, DICeM:Univ of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy

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  • Historic developments of schools and development of teaching
  • Past machine designs and achievements
  • Selected historic design concepts of mechanisms being used
  • Includes contributions of distinguished personalities in the area of mechanism and machine science
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science (HMMS, volume 32)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Aspects of the Cost-Effectiveness of Restoration Process of the F. Reuleaux Mechanisms

    • D. Spasskaya, N. Terehova
    Pages 1-7

  3. Application of Rapid Prototyping Technology for Modeling the Mechanisms of F. Reuleaux Collection

    • M. Vlasov, M. Samoylova
    Pages 9-15

  4. Protoepistemology of Mechanical Engineering in Cassiodorus’ Variae or Mission Impossible at Theoderic’s Court

    • N. Ambrosetti
    Pages 17-29

  5. The Silk Mill “alla Bolognese”

    • C. Bartolomei, A. Ippolito
    Pages 31-38

  6. Robots in History: Legends and Prototypes from Ancient Times to the Industrial Revolution

    • A. Gasparetto
    Pages 39-49

  7. The First Hundred Years of Mechanism Science at RWTH Aachen University

    • B. Corves
    Pages 51-64

  8. Mock-Up of an Eighteenth-Century Oil Mill via Rapid-Prototyping

    • J. C. Montes, R. López-García, R. Dorado-Vicente, F. J. Trujillo
    Pages 65-75

  9. An Introduction to the Ancient Mechanical Wind-Instrument Automata

    • Yu-Hsun Chen, Jian-Liang Lin, Hong-Sen Yan
    Pages 77-85

  10. Dynamic Reconstruction of a Colonial Mexican Mechanism

    • J. C. Jauregui-Correa, G. Rodriguez-Zahar
    Pages 87-100

  11. Leibniz’s Developments of Machine Science

    • A. R. E. Oliveira
    Pages 101-112

  12. On the Mechanics of Live Nature in the Works of V.P. Goryachkin

    • V. Chinenova
    Pages 113-123

  13. The Transformation of the Largest Aircraft Factory of Romania in Tractors Factory as Result of the Soviet Occupation

    • H. Salcă, D. Săvescu
    Pages 125-136

  14. New Trends in Learning Through 3D Modeling of Historical Mechanism’s Model

    • O. Egorova, K. Samsonov, A. Sevryukova
    Pages 137-150

  15. Some Inventions by Engineers of the Hellenistic Age

    • C. Rossi
    Pages 151-164

  16. Mechanical Engineer DING Gongchen

    • Zhang Baichun, Liu Yexin
    Pages 165-170

  17. Lewis Mumford Revisited

    • Teun Koetsier
    Pages 171-181

  18. Analysis of Structure, Kinematic and 3D Modeling of Ferguson’s Mechanisms‏

    • V. Tarabarin, A. Kozov
    Pages 183-194

  19. 19th c. Olivier String Models at Cornell University: Ruled Surfaces in Gear Design

    • F. C. Moon, J. F. Abel
    Pages 195-207

  20. Mechanism of Laoguanshan Pattern Looms from Late 2nd Century BCE, Chengdu, China

    • Feng Zhao, Yi Wang, Qun Luo, Bo Long, Baichun Zhang, Yingchong Xia et al.
    Pages 209-221
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About this book

This volume includes contributions presented at the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms, held at Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, QRO, Mexico, in June 2016.
It contains work on theories and facts concerning mechanisms and machines from antiquity to current times as viewed in the present day. Topics include modern reviews of past works; people, history, and their works; direct memories of the recent past; historic development theories; the history of the design of machines and mechanisms; developments of mechanical design and automation; the historic development of teaching; the history of schools of engineering and the education of engineers. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

    Carlos López-Cajún

  • LARM: Lab. of Robotics and Mechatronics, DICeM:Univ of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms

  • Editors: Carlos López-Cajún, Marco Ceccarelli

  • Series Title: History of Mechanism and Machine Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31184-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31182-1Published: 16 April 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80985-4Published: 22 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31184-5Published: 15 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1875-3442

  • Series E-ISSN: 1875-3426

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 194 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, History of Science

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