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Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 31)

Editors: Sorge, Francesco; Genchi, Giuseppe

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22680-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-22679-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 25, 2015

11 - 20 of 22 Chapters

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Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in Northern Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century

Fang, Yibing; Ceccarelli, Marco

Pages: 181 –198

[In this chapter, the historical conditions and evolutions of the Mechanical Industry in Northern Italy are outlined as occurred after the Italian unification in the second half of the 19th Century, with Italian peculiarities in the Industrial Revolution. Observations and historical findings are...
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The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More Than a Century of History of Technology

Monastero, Riccardo; Genchi, Giuseppe

Pages: 201 –225

[The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo has preserved more than 300 pieces, which collectively narrate the evolution of science and technology in the field of fluid machines and their components and testify to the development in scientific disciplines, technologies and...
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History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid–Almorox

Fernández Caballero, Daniel; Rodríguez de la Cruz, Víctor; Martín Jarillo, Julián; Esperón Miguez, Manuel

Pages: 227 –240

[Nowadays, there is a huge amount of interest in the new high-speed railway lines in Spain. However, there is not much public investment in conventional railway lines. This is not a new phenomenon in Spain’s recent history. This work undertakes analysis of an old metric railway line from Madrid...
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Airship—The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851

Molari, Pier Gabriele

Pages: 241 –251

[The main purpose of the present paper is to answer the question, “Who invented the airship?” and to attribute the invention to Professor Quirico Filopanti (alias Giuseppe Barilli). The rediscovery of certain manuscripts and the link to two editions of an American newspaper dated January 1851...
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Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books “De Cochlea” by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria]—Venice—1615: The Engineering and the Language

Magnini, Elena; Molari, Pier Gabriele

Pages: 255 –271

[The four books on the cochlea by Guido Ubaldo Del Monte (1545–1607) (Guidi Ubaldi e Marchionibus Montis in De Cochlea libri quattuor, 1615) are almost unknown to scholars who studied Archimedes’ machine (Perhaps due to the fact that the author used the Latin language in the few copies that were...
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On the Birth and Growth of Pendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era

Sorge, Francesco; Cammalleri, Marco; Genchi, Giuseppe

Pages: 273 –290

[Measuring the passage of time has intrigued humankind throughout the centuries. Ancient times witnessed the appearance and development of clepsydras and water clocks, whose place was subsequently taken by mechanical clocks in the Middle Ages. It is really surprising how the general architecture...
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Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Cigola, Michela; Ceccarelli, Marco

Pages: 291 –307

[This paper is focused on machine designs of the Renaissance period through drawings reproducing Vitruvius’s machines from Book X of his De Architectura. The editions by Fra’ Giovanni Giocondo in 1513, Cesare Cesariano in 1521, and Daniele Barbaro in 1584 are used to analyze machine designs and...
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Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind Through the Fall of Water

Meneghetti, Umberto

Pages: 309 –325

[Compressed air is nowadays widely used in various industrial applications. In ancient times, it was used both for feeding fires and for wind instruments. Bellows were the usual means, such as piston bellows and leather bellows. In the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the progress of...
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Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models

Ajovalasit, Augusto; Nigrelli, Vincenzo; Pitarresi, Giuseppe; Mariotti, Gabriele Virzì

Pages: 327 –343

[This paper presents the historical development of methods used for the study of torsional stresses in shafts. In particular, the paper covers both analog methods, especially those based on electrical analogies proposed circa 1925, and numerical methods, especially finite difference methods...
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The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC

Koetsier, Teun; Kerle, Hanfried

Pages: 347 –366

[The paper is about the automaton Nysa, which operated in the Grand Procession of Ptolemy Philadelphus in the first half of the 3rd century BC. What was its design? We discuss several possible answers to this question. We give special attention to the mechanism that made Nysa stand up and sit...

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