Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of Hmm2012
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Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Book 15
Technology & EngineeringSports General
ISBN13: 9789400799448
Publisher: Springer Pg
Published: May 9 2014
Pages: 594
Weight: 1.87
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Preface; Section I History of Institutions: A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History, by Francis Moon.- Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory, by Reinhard Braune and Burkhard Corves.- The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2nd Half of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries, by Vera Chinenova, Alexander Golovin and Irina Tyulina.- Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18th and 19th Centuries: an Approach to European Industrialization, by Javier Echávarri Otero, E. De La Guerra Ochoa, E. Chacón Tanarro, J. L. Muñoz Sanz, E. Bautista Paz, A. Díaz Lantada and J. R. Álvarez.- The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, by Michela Cigola.- Section II Biographical Contributions: Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra During the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon, by Nam Moon-Hyon.- Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen, by Burhard Corves.- About Karl Hoecken and Some of his Works on Mechanisms, by Hanfried Kerle.- Gioacchino Russo - a Versatile Scientist, by Francesco Petrone and Viviana Russo.- Applied Mechanics: the Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov, by Alexander Golovin and Anastacia Golovina.- Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS, by Olga Egorova and Gennady A Timofeev.- Francisc Viliam Kovács - Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania, by Erwin Christian Lovasz, Dan Perju, Inocentiu Maniu, Corneliu Radulescu and Valentin Ciupe.- Section III History of Technical Systems: An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton Making, by Finlay Mccourt.- The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople, by Junichi Takeno and Yoshihiko Takeno.- Structural Synthesis of The Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Cross Bow, by Kuo-Hung Hsiao and Hong-Sen Yan.- Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya, by Helen Fragaki.- The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, by Emanuela Chiavoni.- Historical Watermills for Cereal Grinding: Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley, by Romolo Continenza and Stefano Brusaporci.- Section IV History of Technical Systems: The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism, by Michael Wright.- Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: the Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain), by Rafael López-García, Iván Dávila-Rufián and Rubén Dorado-Vicente.- Improbable Mechanics: a Short History of Fake Automata, by Nadia Ambrosetti.- Centrifugal Governors, the Story of a Mistake, by Max Sakharov and Valentin Tarabarin.- The Anahuac Propeller: a Century After, by J. Romero-N, C. Lopez-C, A. Colin-R and M. Arroyo-C .- The Rotary Aero Engine from1908-1918 , by Giuseppe Genchi and Francesco Sorge .- Section V History of Technical systems: The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System , by Marco Ceccarelli .- A Contribution on the History of Ropeways, by K. Hoffmann and N Zrnic.- The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla's Principles, by Svetislav Markovic, Tatjana Lazovic, Ljubica Milovic and Bratislav Stojiljkovic.- Tesla's Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design, by Aleksandar Marinkovic, Nenad Zrnic, Bratislav Stojiljkovic and Milan Vulicevic.- Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage, by Simona Mariana Cretu, Gigi Dragos Ciocioi-Troaca, Emil Soarece and Eugen Marian Paun .- History of Human Powered Threshing Machines, by K. S. Zakiuddin, H. V. Sondawale, J. P. M
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