A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-2511-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 262 Seiten, Book w. online files / update, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1120 g

Reihe: History of Mechanism and Machine Science

Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant milestones in the progress of knowledge by a complementary persp- tive into a general historical overview. This book is the result of common efforts and interests by several scholars, teachers, and students on subjects that are connected with the theory of machines and mechanisms. In fact, in this book there is a certain teaching aim in addition to a general historical view that is more addressed to the achievements by “homo faber” than to those by “homo sapiens”, since the proposed history survey has been developed with an engineering approach. The brevity of the text added to the fact that the authors are probably not com- tent to tackle historical studies with the necessary rigor, means the content of the book is inevitably incomplete,but it nevertheless attempts to fulfil three basic aims: First, it is hoped that this book may provide a stimulus to promote interest in the study of technical history within a mechanical engineering context. Few are the co- tries where anything significant is done in this area, which means there is a general lack of knowledge of this common cultural heritage.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bautista Paz, Emilio

Ceccarelli, Marco

Echávarri Otero, Javier

Muñoz Sanz, José Luis

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau Konstruktionslehre, Bauelemente, CAD
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Konstruktionslehre und -technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Anonymous Developments.- Chinese Inventions and Machines.- Mechanical Engineering in Antiquity.- Medieval Machines and Mechanisms.- The Machine Renaissance.- Machines in the First Colonial Empires.- Machinery During the Industrial Revolution.- A Vision on Machines.