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This work deals with mechanical manufacturing processes in history, examined through the machines associated with those processes. A tool is only included if it is part of a machine tool, with devices made up of moving parts. Once the analytical field has been marked out, the chosen descriptive method is basically graphic.
This historical compendium attempts to give a wide-angle view of historical development without making an in-depth analysis of each of the examples presented. Moreover, this book illustrates the historical development of machines and mechanisms more from a technical point of view rather than a strictly history of science point of view since the authors are mechanical engineers who are interested and motivated to examine the most significant facts in their own area of knowledge of the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms. A full understanding of the historical development of Technology also needs the help of experts in technical matters who can appreciate and reassess bygone achievements in the light of their own technical knowledge. More collaboration between science historians and technical experts is needed, as is currently the case in the field of Industrial Archaeology. Thus, this book is also an attempt to set out a technical approach to the historical development of machines and mechanisms, but without too many technical details that will prevent its understanding being purely historical.
At the beginning of each chapter there is a global reference to the period embraced, the most relevant facts, and the most significant treatises in the context of machine history. Following this introduction each chapter contains a series of sections on the types of machines that are representative of the period analysed together with illustrations to accompany the text. A fairly extensive bibliography enables the reader to make a deeper historical analysis.
On History Without Written Sources
On Written Documents
On Cultural Influences on Design
On the Scope of this Book
On the Contents of this Book
Anonymous Developments
On Machines Before Man
On the Machines of Primitive Man
On Popular Machines
Chinese Inventions and Machines
On War Machines
On Textile Machinery
On Hydraulic Machinery
On Clocks and Automatons
On Continuity over the Millennia
Mechanical Engineering in Antiquity
On Technological Evidence
On the Development of Ingenious Mechanisms
On Gears and Screws
On the Way to Mechanical Engineering
On Vitruvius’s Influence
On Harmony in Machines
Medieval Machines and Mechanisms
On Raising Water
On Clocks and Automatons
On the Transition in Europe
The Machine Renaissance
On War Machines
On Lifting Machines
On Hydraulic Machines
On Machine Tools
On Machines for Traction and Transport
On Machines for the Rural World
On Domestic Apparatus
Machines in the First Colonial Empires
On Raising Water
On Mills
On Lifting Devices
On Other Devices
On Machinery and Precious Metals
On Automatons
Machinery During the Industrial Revolution
On Textile Machinery
On the Evolution of Handcraft Manufacturing
On Machine Tools
On Hydraulic Machines
On Steam Engines
On the Development of Transport
On Automatic Astronomical Devices
A Vision on Machines
On Re-examining Greco-Roman Works
On the Systematisation of Machine Study
On Progress in Practical Use
On Mathematization of Mechanism Design
On Machine Training
Final Remarks
Looking at the Future
On the Challenge of Biodevices
On the Challenges with Mechatronics
Chronic Table