Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

Preface; Section I History of Institutions: A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History, by Francis Moon.-  Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory, by Reinhard Braune and Burkhard Corves.- The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2nd Half of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries, by Vera Chinenova, Alexander Golovin and Irina Tyulina.- Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18th and 19th Centuries: an Approach to European Industrialization, by Javier Echávarri Otero, E. De La Guerra Ochoa, E. Chacón Tanarro, J. L. Muñoz Sanz, E. Bautista Paz, A. Díaz Lantada and J. R. Álvarez.- The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, by Michela Cigola.- Section II Biographical Contributions: Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra During the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon, by Nam Moon-Hyon.-  Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen, by Burhard Corves.- About Karl Hoecken and Some of his Works on Mechanisms, by Hanfried Kerle.- Gioacchino Russo – a Versatile Scientist, by Francesco Petrone and Viviana Russo.- Applied Mechanics: the Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov, by Alexander Golovin and Anastacia Golovina.- Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS, by Olga Egorova and Gennady A Timofeev.- Francisc Viliam Kovács - Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania, by Erwin Christian Lovasz, Dan Perju, Inocentiu Maniu, Corneliu Radulescu and Valentin Ciupe.- Section III History of Technical Systems: An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria's “On Automaton Making" , by Finlay Mccourt.- The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople, by Junichi Takeno andYoshihiko Takeno.- Structural Synthesis of The Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Cross Bow, by Kuo-Hung Hsiao and Hong-Sen Yan.- Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya, by Helen Fragaki.- The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, by Emanuela Chiavoni.- Historical Watermills for Cereal Grinding: Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley, by Romolo Continenza and Stefano Brusaporci.- Section IV History of Technical Systems: The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism, by Michael Wright.- Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: the Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain), by Rafael López-García, Iván Dávila-Rufián and Rubén Dorado-Vicente.- Improbable Mechanics: a Short History of Fake Automata, by Nadia Ambrosetti.- Centrifugal Governors, the Story of a Mistake, by Max Sakharov and Valentin Tarabarin.- The Anahuac Propeller: a Century After, by J. Romero-N, C. Lopez-C, A. Colin-R and M. Arroyo-C .- The Rotary Aero Engine from1908-1918 , by Giuseppe Genchi and Francesco Sorge .- Section V History of Technical systems: The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System , by Marco Ceccarelli .- A Contribution on the History of Ropeways, by K. Hoffmann and N Zrnic.- The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla’s Principles, by Svetislav Marković, Tatjana Lazović, Ljubica Milović and Bratislav Stojiljković.- Tesla’s Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design, by Aleksandar Marinković, Nenad Zrnić, Bratislav Stojiljković and Milan Vulicević.- Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage, by Simona Mariana Cretu, Gigi Dragos Ciocioi-Troaca, Emil Soarece and Eugen Marian Paun .- History of Human Powered Threshing Machines, by K. S. Zakiuddin, H. V.Sondawale, J. P. Modak and M. Ceccarelli .- Section VI Concepts and Theories: At the Origins of the Concepts of Máthema and Mekhané: Aristotle’s Mekhanikà and Archimedes' Tropos Mekhanikòs, by Giuseppe Boscarino.- Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato di Fortificazione, by Raffaele Pisano and Danilo Capecchi.- Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics, by Agamenon Oliveira .- The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline, by Teun Koetsier.- Cognate Linkages: the Roberts-Chebyshev Theorem , by Egbert Verstraten.- The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of his Method of Principle Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science, by Volkert Van Der Wijk and Just L. Herder.- 3D Overconstrained Linkages - The Lost Jade , by Yan Chen and You Zhong.- Designing, Analysis and Computer Modelling of Straight Line Mechanisms, by Valentin Tarabarin, Z. Tarabarina and D. Chirkina.