Bautista Paz / Ceccarelli / Echávarri Otero A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-2512-8
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 262 Seiten, eBook

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;9
3;Introduction;11
3.1;On History Without Written Sources;11
3.2;On Written Documents;12
3.3;On Cultural Influences on Design;13
3.4;On the Scope of this Book;14
3.5;On the Contents of this Book;15
4;Chapter 1 Anonymous Developments;17
4.1;On Machines Before Man;18
4.2;On the Machines of Primitive Man;22
4.3;On Popular Machines;29
5;Chapter 2 Chinese Inventions and Machines;34
5.1;On War Machines;35
5.2;On Textile Machinery;38
5.3;On Hydraulic Machinery;41
5.4;On Clocks and Automatons;47
5.5;On Continuity over the Millennia;56
6;Chapter 3 Mechanical Engineering in Antiquity;57
6.1;On Technological Evidence;58
6.2;On the Development of Ingenious Mechanisms;59
6.3;On Gears and Screws;67
6.4;On the Way to Mechanical Engineering;68
6.5;On Vitruvius’s Influence;74
6.6;On Harmony in Machines;75
7;Chapter 4 Medieval Machines and Mechanisms;80
7.1;On Raising Water;81
7.2;On Clocks and Automatons;89
7.3;On the Transition in Europe;99
8;Chapter 5 The Machine Renaissance;106
8.1;On War Machines;109
8.2;On Lifting Machines;110
8.3;On Hydraulic Machines;116
8.4;On Machine Tools;121
8.5;On Machines for Traction and Transport;123
8.6;On Machines for the Rural World;126
8.7;On Domestic Apparatus;127
9;Chapter 6 Machines in the First Colonial Empires;131
9.1;On Raising Water;132
9.2;On Mills;137
9.3;On Lifting Devices;147
9.4;On Other Devices;147
9.5;On Machinery and Precious Metals;150
9.6;On Automatons;152
10;Chapter 7 Machinery During the Industrial Revolution;154
10.1;On Textile Machinery;154
10.2;On the Evolution of Handcraft Manufacturing;160
10.3;On Machine Tools;164
10.4;On Hydraulic Machines;165
10.5;On Steam Engines;168
10.6;On the Development of Transport;177
10.7;On Automatic Astronomical Devices;177
11;Chapter 8 A Vision on Machines;182
11.1;On Re-examining Greco-Roman Works;182
11.2;On the Systematisation of Machine Study;185
11.3;On Progress in Practical Use;198
11.4;On Mathematization of Mechanism Design;202
11.5;On Machine Training;207
11.6;Final Remarks;212
11.7;Looking at the Future;213
11.8;On the Challenge of Biodevices;215
11.9;On the Challenges with Mechatronics;216
12;Chronic Table;219
13;References;224

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.