Abstract
Lorenzo Allievi is best known for the Water hammer solution, which he proposed in 1903. But he also contributed to Mechanism Design with the milestone work ‘Cinematica delle Biella Piana’ (Kinematics of Planar Couplers), published in 1895 as an original work from application of the Burmester Theory. His lifetime’s professional activity cemented him as a Captain of Industry, as he experienced success in many Italian enterprises and organizations.
This Chapter is an expanded version of the journal paper: Ceccarelli M., Koetsier T., “Burmester and Allievi: A Theory and Its Application for Mechanism Design at the End of 19th Century,” Journal of Mechanical Design (Vol.130, July 2008, pp. 072301-1:16), http://link.aip.org/link/?JMD/130/072301 (DOI: 10.1115/1.2918911).
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Ceccarelli, M. (2014). Allievi Lorenzo (1856–1941). In: Ceccarelli, M. (eds) Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8947-9_1
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