Overview
- 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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About this book
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.
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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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