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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. On the Warship by Ansaldo for Chinese Imperial Navy

    • Yibing Fang, Marco Ceccarelli
    Pages 223-233

  2. Dynamic Analysis of an Ancient Tilt-Hammer

    • Umberto Meneghetti
    Pages 235-243

  3. An Analysis of Micro Scratches on Typical Southern Chinese Bronzes—A Case Study of Crawler-Pattern Nao and Chugong Ge

    • Lie Sun, Xiaowu Guan, Shilei Wu
    Pages 245-259
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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

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