Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of HMM2012

Front Matter....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History....Pages 3-19
Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory....Pages 21-38
The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2 nd Half of the 19 th Century and the Early 20 th Century....Pages 39-53
Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18 th and 19 th Centuries: An Approach to European Industrialisation....Pages 55-68
The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVI th and XVII th Centuries....Pages 69-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra during the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon....Pages 83-105
Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen....Pages 107-121
About Karl Hoecken and Some of His Works on Mechanisms....Pages 123-134
Gioacchino Russo – A Versatile Scientist....Pages 135-144
Applied Mechanics: The Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov....Pages 145-158
Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science)....Pages 159-169
Francisc Viliam Kovács – Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania....Pages 171-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria’s On Automaton-Making ....Pages 185-198
The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople....Pages 199-211
Structural Synthesis of the Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Crossbow....Pages 213-228
Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya....Pages 229-250
The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras....Pages 251-259
Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley (Italy): Historical Watermills for Cereals Grinding....Pages 261-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism....Pages 279-292
The Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: The Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain)....Pages 293-307
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Improbable Mechanics: A Short History of Fake Automata....Pages 309-322
Centrifugal Governors: The Story of a Mistake....Pages 323-336
The Anahuac Propeller: A Century after....Pages 337-348
The Rotary Aero Engine from 1908 to 1918....Pages 349-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System....Pages 365-379
A Contribution on the History of Ropeways....Pages 381-394
The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla’s Principles....Pages 395-406
Tesla’s Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design....Pages 407-420
Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage....Pages 421-430
History of Human Powered Threshing Machines: A Literature Review....Pages 431-445
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
At the Origins of the Concepts of Máthema and Mekhané: Aristotle’s Mekhanikà and Archimedes’ Tropos Mekhanikòs ....Pages 449-461
Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato Di Fortificazione ....Pages 463-473
Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics....Pages 475-490
The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline....Pages 491-504
Cognate Linkages the Roberts – Chebyshev Theorem....Pages 505-519
The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of His Method of Principal Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science....Pages 521-534
Spatial Overconstrained Linkages—The Lost Jade....Pages 535-550
Designing, Analysis and Computer Modeling of Straight-Line Mechanisms....Pages 551-563
The Transmission of the European Clock-Making Technology into China in the 17 th -18 th Centuries....Pages 565-577
DMG-Lib – An Open Access Digital Library as an Exploration Tool for Historians and Engineers....Pages 579-592
Back Matter....Pages 0--1