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A tribute to Franz Reuleaux! Why? Let me introduce myself: I’m a mechanical engineer with a degree in philosophy, and a former manager of a world-wide manufacturing company (aluminium die-casting machines, that is to say, machines equipped with many kinematic mechanisms). The Workshop on the History of MMS organized in the field of MMS, (2013 IFToMM PC-21-22 November in Palermo, Italy) gives me the opportunity to dedicate a tribute to Franz Reuleaux, called the father of kinematics. The goal of this, my homage, is to “brush up the memory of Franz Reuleaux”. That’s all.
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Bragastini, R. (2016). Tribute to Reuleaux. In: Sorge, F., Genchi, G. (eds) Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22680-4_3
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