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Networks in the Machine Age: From Leonardo to Clocks to Reuleaux

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Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention

Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ((HMMS,volume 22))

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We apply a network analysis to the history of kinematics theory of machine design from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries beginning with Leonardo da Vinci. As a particular example we construct a network chart for the evolution of precision marine clocks. We also look at the social network of Franz Reuleaux and other kinematics contributors of the nineteenth century. The kinematics network has links to the internal combustion network of Chap. 3.

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Moon, F. (2014). Networks in the Machine Age: From Leonardo to Clocks to Reuleaux. In: Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7528-2_2

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