Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Chapter 1 Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics

Chapter 2 Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis and His Handbook of Machine Designs

Chapter 3 Tribute to Reuleaux

Chapter 4 Elia Ovazza, Professor of TMM in Palermo Around the End of the 19th Century

Chapter 5 Academician K.V. Frolov at Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Chapter 6 Historical Watermills. Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage

Chapter 7 The Mill at the Orbetello Lagoon: Mechanisms and Hydraulic Energy

Chapter 8 The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily

Chapter 9 The History of Aircraft Manufacturing at the Braşov IAR Plant

Chapter 10 Science, Technology and Industry in Southern Italy Before the Unification

Chapter 11 Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in Northern Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century

Chapter 12 The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More Than a Century of History of Technology

Chapter 13 History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid–Almorox

Chapter 14 Airship—The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851

Chapter 15 Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books “De Cochlea” by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria]—Venice—1615: The Engineering and the Language

Chapter 16 On the Birth and Growth of Pendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era

Chapter 17 Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Chapter 18 Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind Through the Fall of Water

Chapter 19 Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models

Chapter 20 The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC

Chapter 21 Hindu Temple Carts—Rathams

Chapter 22 Robots: An Evolving Species