A History of Mechanical Engineering

A History of Mechanical Engineering

Author: Ce Zhang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-03

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 981150833X

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This book explores the history of mechanical engineering since the Bronze Age. Focusing on machinery inventions and the development of mechanical technology, it also discusses the machinery industry and modern mechanical education. The evolution of machinery is divided into three stages: Ancient (before the European Renaissance), Modern (mainly including the two Industrial Revolutions) and Contemporary (since the Revolution in Physics, especially post Second World War). The book not only clarifies the development of mechanical engineering, but also reveals the driving forces behind it – e.g. the economy, national defense and human scientific research activities – to highlight the links between technology and society; mechanical engineering and the natural sciences; and mechanical engineering and related technological areas. Though mainly intended as a textbook or supplemental reading for graduate students, the book also offers a unique resource for researchers and engineers in mechanical engineering who wish to broaden their horizons.


The Elements of Mechanical Design

The Elements of Mechanical Design

Author: James G. Skakoon

Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780791802670

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This book contains principles and practices for mechanical designers and represent engineering fundamentals in a practical way.


Design, Manufacturing And Mechatronics - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Design, Manufacturing And Mechatronics (Icdmm2016)

Design, Manufacturing And Mechatronics - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Design, Manufacturing And Mechatronics (Icdmm2016)

Author: A Mehran Shahhosseini

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 9813208333

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The 3rd Annual International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016) was successfully held in Wuhan, China in 2016.The ICDMM2016 covers a wide range of fundamental studies, technical innovations and industrial applications in industry design, manufacturing and mechatronics. The ICDMM2016 program consists of 4 keynote speeches, 96 oral and poster presentations. We were pleased to have more than 80 participants from China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. However, finally, only 83 articles were selected after peer review to be included in this proceedings.


Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms

Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms

Author: Baichun Zhang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 3030035387

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This is the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms that was held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The Symposium provided an international forum for presenting and discussing historical developments in the field of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS). Special sections focused on the following topics: . modern reviews of past works · engineers in history, and their works · direct memories of the recent past · the development of theories · the history of the design of machines and mechanisms · development of automation and robots · the development of teaching of MMS · the schools and institutes of mechanical engineering · the heritage of machines and mechanisms


Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device

Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device

Author: Jian-Liang Lin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 3662484471

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This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece. The historical background, surviving evidence and reconstructions of the mechanism are introduced, and the historical development of astronomical achievements and various astronomical instruments are investigated. Pursuing an approach based on the conceptual design of modern mechanisms and bearing in mind the standards of science and technology at the time, all feasible designs of the six lost/incomplete/unclear subsystems are synthesized as illustrated examples, and 48 feasible designs of the complete interior structure are presented. This approach provides not only a logical tool for applying modern mechanical engineering knowledge to the reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, but also an innovative research direction for identifying the original structures of the mechanism in the future. In short, the book offers valuable new insights for all readers who are interested in the Antikythera mechanism.


Machine Design

Machine Design

Author: Andrew D. Dimarogonas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2000-12-18

Total Pages: 1024

ISBN-13: 9780471315285

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Computer aided design (CAD) emerged in the 1960s out of the growing acceptance of the use of the computer as a design tool for complex systems. As computers have become faster and less expensive while handling an increasing amount of information, their use in machine design has spread from large industrial needs to the small designer.


Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Author: Francesco Sorge

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 3319226800

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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.


Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

Author: Teun Koetsier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9400741324

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This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). These proceedings cover recent research concerning all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present and its historiography: machines, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, concepts and theories, design methods, collections of methods, collections of models, institutions and biographies.


Mechanical Engineering Design

Mechanical Engineering Design

Author: Joseph Edward Shigley

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780072832099

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The Classic Edition of Shigley & Mischke, Mechanical Engineering Design 5/e provides readers the opportunity to use this well-respected version of the bestselling textbook in Machine Design. Originally published in 1989, MED 5/e provides a balanced overview of machine element design, and the background methods and mechanics principles needed to do proper analysis and design. Content-wise the book remains unchanged from the latest reprint of the original 5th edition. Instructors teaching a course and needing problem solutions can contact McGraw-Hill Account Management for a copy of the Instructor Solutions Manual.


A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

Author: Emilio Bautista Paz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 904812512X

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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.