Sorge F., Genchi G. (eds.) Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

New York: Springer, 2016. — 409 p. — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science 31). — ISBN: 9783319226798, 3319226797.This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years.
The various sections deal with some eminent scientists of the past, with the history of industrial installations, machinery and transport, with the human inventiveness for mechanical and scientific devices, and with robots and human-driven automata. All chapters have been written by experts in their fields.
The volume shows a wide-ranging panorama on the historical progress of scientific and technical knowledge in the past centuries. It will stimulate new research and ideas for those involved in the history of Science and Technology.Eminent Scientists of the Past
Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics. Agamenon R.E. Oliveira
Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis and His Handbook of Machine Designs. Marco Ceccarelli
Tribute to Reuleaux. Roberto Bragastini
Elia Ovazza, Professor of TMM in Palermo Around the End of the 19th Century. Marco Ceccarelli, Francesco Sorge and Giuseppe Genchi
Academician K.V. Frolov at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Olga Egorova and Gennady Timofeev
History of Industrial Installations
Historical Watermills. Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage. Mario Centofanti, Stefano Brusaporci and Vittorio Lucchese
The Mill at the Orbetello Lagoon: Mechanisms and Hydraulic Energy. Emanuela Chiavoni
The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily. Vincenzo Ferrara
The History of Aircraft Manufacturing at the Braşov IAR Plant. Horia Salcă and Dan Săvescu
Science, Technology and Industry in Southern Italy Before the Unification. Cesare Rossi and Marco Ceccarelli
Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in Northern Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century. Yibing Fang and Marco Ceccarelli
History of Machinery and Transport
The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More Than a Century of History of Technology. Riccardo Monastero and Giuseppe Genchi
History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid–Almorox. Daniel Fernández Caballero, Víctor Rodríguez de la Cruz,
Julián Martín Jarillo and Manuel Esperón Miguez
Airship—The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851. Pier Gabriele Molari
Human Inventiveness for Mechanical and Scientific Devices
Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books «De Cochlea» by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria]—Venice—1615: The Engineering and the Language. Elena Magnini and Pier Gabriele Molari
On the Birth and Growth of Pendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era. Francesco Sorge, Marco Cammalleri and Giuseppe Genchi
Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Michela Cigola and Marco Ceccarelli
Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind Through the Fall of Water. Umberto Meneghetti
Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models. Augusto Ajovalasit, Vincenzo Nigrelli, Giuseppe Pitarresi and Gabriele Virzì Mariotti
V Robots and Human-Driven Automata
The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC. Teun Koetsier and Hanfried Kerle
Hindu Temple Carts—Rathams. J.S. Rao, Babaji Raja Bhonsle and Bigil Kumar
Robots: An Evolving Species. Alberto Rovetta and Vincenzo Iannone