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A Brief Illustrated History of Machines

and Mechanisms

HISTORY OF MECHANISM AND MACHINE SCIENCE

Volume 10

Series Editor

MARCO CECCARELLI

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 techni-

cal details and formulations and even reformulating those in terms of modern formal-

isms 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

DiMSAT – University of Cassino

Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr)

Italy

E-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it

For other titles published in this series, go to

www.springer.com/series/7481

Emilio Bautista Paz ● Marco Ceccarelli

Javier Echávarri Otero ● José Luis Muñoz Sanz

A Brief Illustrated

History of Machines

and Mechanisms

Emilio Bautista Paz

Technical University of Madrid

Spain

Marco Ceccarelli

University of Cassino

Italy

ceccarelli@unicas.it

Javier Echávarri Otero

Technical University of Madrid

Spain

José Luis Muñoz Sanz

Technical University of Madrid

Spain

Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extra.springer.com.

This is a revised and updated translation of the original Spanish work “Breve Historia

Ilustrada de las Maquinas” ETSII, Madrid, Spain, 2007.

ISBN 978-90-481-2511-1

e-ISBN 978-90-481-2512-8

DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8

Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926023

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Printed on acid-free paper

Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

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