: Emilio Bautista Paz, Marco Ceccarelli, Javier Echávarri Otero, José Luis Muñoz Sanz
: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms
: Springer-Verlag
: 9789048125128
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Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant milestones in the progress of knowledge by a complementary persp- tive into a general historical overview. This book is the result of common efforts and interests by several scholars, teachers, and students on subjects that are connected with the theory of machines and mechanisms. In fact, in this book there is a certain teaching aim in addition to a general historical view that is more addressed to the achievements by 'homo faber' than to those by 'homo sapiens', since the proposed history survey has been developed with an engineering approach. The brevity of the text added to the fact that the authors are probably not com- tent to tackle historical studies with the necessary rigor, means the content of the book is inevitably incomplete, but it nevertheless attempts to fulfil three basic aims: First, it is hoped that this book may provide a stimulus to promote interest in the study of technical history within a mechanical engineering context. Few are the co- tries where anything significant is done in this area, which means there is a general lack of knowledge of this common cultural heritage.
Preface6
Contents9
Introduction11
On History Without Written Sources11
On Written Documents12
On Cultural Influences on Design13
On the Scope of this Book14
On the Contents of this Book15
Chapter 1 Anonymous Developments17
On Machines Before Man18
On the Machines of Primitive Man22
On Popular Machines29
Chapter 2 Chinese Inventions and Machines34
On War Machines35
On Textile Machinery38
On Hydraulic Machinery41
On Clocks and Automatons47
On Continuity over the Millennia56
Chapter 3 Mechanical Engineering in Antiquity57
On Technological Evidence58
On the Development of Ingenious Mechanisms59
On Gears and Screws67
On the Way to Mechanical Engineering68
On Vitruvius s Influence74
On Harmony in Machines75
Chapter 4 Medieval Machines and Mechanisms80
On Raising Water81
On Clocks and Automatons89
On the Transition in Europe99
Chapter 5 The Machine Renaissance106
On War Machines109
On Lifting Machines110
On Hydraulic Machines116
On Machine Tools121
On Machines for Traction and Transport123
On Machines for the Rural World126
On Domestic Apparatus127
Chapter 6 Machines in the First Colonial Empires131
On Raising Water132
On Mills137
On Lifting Devices147
On Other Devices147
On Machinery and Precious Metals150
On Automatons152
Chapter 7 Machinery During the Industrial Revolution154
On Textile Machinery154
On the Evolution of Handcraft Manufacturing160
On Machine Tools164
On Hydraulic Machines165
On Steam Engines168
On the Development of Transport177
On Automatic Astronomical Devices177
Chapter 8 A Vision on Machines182
On Re-examining Greco-Roman Works182
On the Systematisation of Machine Study185
On Progress in Practical Use198
On Mathematization of Mechanism Design202
On Machine Training207
Final Remarks212
Looking at the Future213
On the Challenge of Biodevices215
On the Challenges with Mechatronics216
Chronic Table219
References224