Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

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

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. 

• HMM
• History of Mechanism and Machine Science
• IFToMM
• Machines Design
• Mechanism and Machine Science

• 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

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