Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of HMM2012 (History of Mechanism and Machine Science (15))

This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). These proceedings cover recent research concerning all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present and its historiography: machines, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, concepts and theories, design methods, collections of methods, collections of models, institutions and biographies. Front Matter....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History....Pages 3-19 Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory....Pages 21-38 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....Pages 39-53 Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18 th and 19 th Centuries: An Approach to European Industrialisation....Pages 55-68 The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVI th and XVII th Centuries....Pages 69-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra during the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon....Pages 83-105 Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen....Pages 107-121 About Karl Hoecken and Some of His Works on Mechanisms....Pages 123-134 Gioacchino Russo – A Versatile Scientist....Pages 135-144 Applied Mechanics: The Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov....Pages 145-158 Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science)....Pages 159-169 Francisc Viliam Kovács – Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania....Pages 171-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria’s On Automaton-Making ....Pages 185-198 The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople....Pages 199-211 Structural Synthesis of the Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Crossbow....Pages 213-228 Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya....Pages 229-250 The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras....Pages 251-259 Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley (Italy): Historical Watermills for Cereals Grinding....Pages 261-275 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism....Pages 279-292 The Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: The Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain)....Pages 293-307 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 Improbable Mechanics: A Short History of Fake Automata....Pages 309-322 Centrifugal Governors: The Story of a Mistake....Pages 323-336 The Anahuac Propeller: A Century after....Pages 337-348 The Rotary Aero Engine from 1908 to 1918....Pages 349-362 Front Matter....Pages 363-363 The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System....Pages 365-379 A Contribution on the History of Ropeways....Pages 381-394 The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla’s Principles....Pages 395-406 Tesla’s Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design....Pages 407-420 Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage....Pages 421-430 History of Human Powered Threshing Machines: A Literature Review....Pages 431-445 Front Matter....Pages 447-447 At the Origins of the Concepts of Máthema and Mekhané: Aristotle’s Mekhanikà and Archimedes’ Tropos Mekhanikòs ....Pages 449-461 Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato Di Fortificazione ....Pages 463-473 Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics....Pages 475-490 The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline....Pages 491-504 Cognate Linkages the Roberts – Chebyshev Theorem....Pages 505-519 The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of His Method of Principal Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science....Pages 521-534 Spatial Overconstrained Linkages—The Lost Jade....Pages 535-550 Designing, Analysis and Computer Modeling of Straight-Line Mechanisms....Pages 551-563 The Transmission of the European Clock-Making Technology into China in the 17 th -18 th Centuries....Pages 565-577 DMG-Lib – An Open Access Digital Library as an Exploration Tool for Historians and Engineers....Pages 579-592 Back Matter....Pages 0--1 Teun Koetsier And Marco Ceccarelli (eds.). ... The 4th International Symposium On History Of Machines And Mechanisms That Was Held At Vu University In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, From May 7 Until May 11, 2012.--pref. Includes Bibliographical References And Author Index.