Achmad Sundoro: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

Sunday, April 7, 2013

A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

Book Contents:

1. Anonymous Developments

On Machines Before Man
On the Machines of Primitive Man
On Popular Machines

2. Chinese Inventions and Machines

On War Machines
On Textile Machinery
On Hydraulic Machinery
On Clocks and Automatons
On Continuity over the Millennia

3. 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

4. Medieval Machines and Mechanisms

On Raising Water
On Clocks and Automatons
On the Transition in Europe

5. 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

6. Machines in the First Colonial Empires

On Raising Water
On Mills
On Lifting Devices
On Other Devices
On Machinery and Precious Metals
On Automatons

7. 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

8. 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

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