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The 19th-Century Crisis in Engineering

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At the end of the 19th century, applied (or technical) mechanics, as one of the basics of technical development, found itself a desolate state, due largely to the refusal of its practitioners to recognize the influence of kinetics on (spatial) motion. They had failed to keep up with developments in the science underlying their craft and were unable to keep pace with the speeds of such systems as the steam engine. On the other hand, theoretical (or rational) mechanics was already well established, mainly in conservative astrodynamics. Into this critical situation, two scientists began to build a bridge, from two different sides: August Föppl (1854–1924) and Felix Klein (1849–1925).

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Bremer, H. (2018). The 19th-Century Crisis in Engineering. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2017. EUROCAST 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10671. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74718-7_4

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