Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics....Pages 3-13
Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis and His Handbook of Machine Designs....Pages 15-34
Tribute to Reuleaux....Pages 35-45
Elia Ovazza, Professor of TMM in Palermo Around the End of the 19th Century....Pages 47-63
Academician K.V. Frolov at Bauman Moscow State Technical University....Pages 65-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Historical Watermills. Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage....Pages 81-97
The Mill at the Orbetello Lagoon: Mechanisms and Hydraulic Energy....Pages 99-110
The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily....Pages 111-130
The History of Aircraft Manufacturing at the Braşov IAR Plant....Pages 131-157
Science, Technology and Industry in Southern Italy Before the Unification....Pages 159-179
Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in Northern Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century....Pages 181-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More Than a Century of History of Technology....Pages 201-225
History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid–Almorox....Pages 227-240
Airship—The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851....Pages 241-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books “De Cochlea” by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria]—Venice—1615: The Engineering and the Language....Pages 255-271
On the Birth and Growth of Pendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era....Pages 273-290
Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio....Pages 291-307
Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind Through the Fall of Water....Pages 309-325
Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models....Pages 327-343
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC....Pages 347-366
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Hindu Temple Carts—Rathams....Pages 367-388
Robots: An Evolving Species....Pages 389-409