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F. Reuleaux, F. Wittenbauer: Their Influence on Evolution of Applied Mechanics in Russia at the Beginnings of XXth Century

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This paper describes some peculiarities of applied mechanics in Russia at the beginnings of XXth century. Evolution of technical education, training programs, lectures, courses etc. and also birth of famous Russian engineering school are connected closely to the steps that had been made by German scientists. Franz Reuleaux created new approach to classification and systematization of machines and mechanisms, Ferdinand Wittenbauer built strict and fine system of tasking special for engineering education. Their contribution made it possible to develop the “Russian method” of technical education so how it would became in future.

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    Artwork retrieved from Wikimedia Commons Foundation database and licensed under the conditions of Creative Commons v. 3.0 Public License.

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    Imperial Moscow Technical School.

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    Image (b) of Camus’ Theorem explanation located on http://tmm-umk.bmstu.ru/lectures/lect_14.htm.

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Acknowledgments

I want to acknowledge Pavel Orlov and Alim Dzashueff the students of BMSTU Aerospace faculty for their help in collection of information about Reuleaux’s collection. Also I want to acknowledge my friend Volkert van der Wijk for his assistance in collecting information about prof. Wittenbauer. My thanks to prof. Olga Egorova for her assistance in the preparation of English text. I am very grateful to big command of infotech pirates from the largest Russian knowledge exchange forum http://rutracker.org/ for their assistance in collection and widespreading of information about prof. Wittenbauer.

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Vukolov, A. (2017). F. Reuleaux, F. Wittenbauer: Their Influence on Evolution of Applied Mechanics in Russia at the Beginnings of XXth Century. In: Wenger, P., Flores, P. (eds) New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44156-6_32

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