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Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

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    Chapter 1 A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History
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    Chapter 2 Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory
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    Chapter 3 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
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    Chapter 4 Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18 th and 19 th Centuries: An Approach to European Industrialisation
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    Chapter 5 The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVI th and XVII th Centuries
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    Chapter 6 Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra during the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon
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    Chapter 7 Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen
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    Chapter 8 About Karl Hoecken and Some of His Works on Mechanisms
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    Chapter 9 Gioacchino Russo – A Versatile Scientist
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    Chapter 10 Applied Mechanics: The Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov
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    Chapter 11 Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science)
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    Chapter 12 Francisc Viliam Kovács – Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania
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    Chapter 13 An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria’s On Automaton-Making
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    Chapter 14 The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople
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    Chapter 15 Structural Synthesis of the Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Crossbow
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    Chapter 16 Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya
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    Chapter 17 The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
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    Chapter 18 Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley (Italy): Historical Watermills for Cereals Grinding
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    Chapter 19 The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism
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    Chapter 20 The Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: The Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain)
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    Chapter 21 Improbable Mechanics: A Short History of Fake Automata
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    Chapter 22 Centrifugal Governors: The Story of a Mistake
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    Chapter 23 The Anahuac Propeller: A Century after
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    Chapter 24 The Rotary Aero Engine from 1908 to 1918
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    Chapter 25 The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System
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    Chapter 26 A Contribution on the History of Ropeways
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    Chapter 27 The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla’s Principles
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    Chapter 28 Tesla’s Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design
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    Chapter 29 Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage
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    Chapter 30 History of Human Powered Threshing Machines: A Literature Review
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    Chapter 31 At the Origins of the Concepts of Máthema and Mekhané: Aristotle’s Mekhanikà and Archimedes’ Tropos Mekhanikòs
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    Chapter 32 Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato Di Fortificazione
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    Chapter 33 Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics
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    Chapter 34 The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline
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    Chapter 35 Cognate Linkages the Roberts – Chebyshev Theorem
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    Chapter 36 The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of His Method of Principal Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science
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    Chapter 37 Spatial Overconstrained Linkages—The Lost Jade
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    Chapter 38 Designing, Analysis and Computer Modeling of Straight-Line Mechanisms
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    Chapter 39 The Transmission of the European Clock-Making Technology into China in the 17 th -18 th Centuries
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    Chapter 40 DMG-Lib – An Open Access Digital Library as an Exploration Tool for Historians and Engineers
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Chapter title
Francisc Viliam Kovács – Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania
Chapter number 12
Book title
Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4132-4_12
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-074131-7, 978-9-40-074132-4
Authors

Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Dan Perju, Inocenţiu Maniu, Corneliu Rădulescu, Valentin Ciupe, Lovasz, Erwin-Christian, Perju, Dan, Maniu, Inocenţiu, Rădulescu, Corneliu, Ciupe, Valentin

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Professor 1 100%
Student > Postgraduate 1 100%
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Engineering 2 200%