Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering
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
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Francesco Sorge Giuseppe Genchi Editors
Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering
History of Mechanism and Machine Science Volume 31
Series editor Marco Ceccarelli LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics DICeM; University of Cassino and South Latium Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy [email protected]
Aims and Scope of the Series This book series aims to establish a well defined forum for Monographs and Proceedings on the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). The series publishes works that give an overview of the historical developments, from the earliest times up to and including the recent past, of MMS in all its technical aspects. This technical approach is an essential characteristic of the series. By discussing technical details and formulations and even reformulating those in terms of modern formalisms the possibility is created not only to track the historical technical developments but also to use past experiences in technical teaching and research today. In order to do so, the emphasis must be on technical aspects rather than a purely historical focus, although the latter has its place too. Furthermore, the series will consider the republication of out-of-print older works with English translation and comments. The book series is intended to collect technical views on historical developments of the broad field of MMS in a unique frame that can be seen in its totality as an Encyclopaedia of the History of MMS but with the additional purpose of archiving and teaching the History of MMS. Therefore the book series is intended not only for researchers of the History of Engineering but also for professionals and students who are interested in obtaining a clear perspective of the past for their future technical works. The books will be written in general by engineers but not only for engineers. Prospective authors and editors can contact the series editor, Professor M. Ceccarelli, about future publications within the series at: LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics DICeM; University of Cassino and South Latium Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) Italy email: [email protected]
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7481
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Editors Francesco Sorge Chemical, Management, Informatics and Mechanical Engineering University of Palermo Palermo Italy
Giuseppe Genchi Chemical, Management, Informatics and Mechanical Engineering University of Palermo Palermo Italy
ISSN 1875-3442 ISSN 1875-3426 (electronic) History of Mechanism and Machine Science ISBN 978-3-319-22679-8 ISBN 978-3-319-22680-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22680-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015951518 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, r