The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century /

• Main Author: Moon, Francis C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 2
• Subjects: History.; Popular works.; Mechanical engineering.; Engineering design.; Machinery.; History of Science.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; Mechanical Engineering.; Engineering Design.; Popular Science, general.

Ah the Machine; both coveted and criticized, life sustaining and life destr- ing yet always a symbol of human creativity and invention from the Rena- sance to robotics from the Wright brothers to the Wankel engine. There are more than a billion mechanical machines in our world of six billion humans....