Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science Their Contributions and Legacies Part 1 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ceccarelli, Marco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ; 1
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Engineering design.; Machinery.; Engineering Design.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; History of Science.

This is the ?rst volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve as a dictionary of names of individuals who have made contributions to the discipline of MMS (Me- anism and Machine Science). This dictionary project has the peculiarity that,...

Table of Contents:

• Archimedes (287–212 BC)
• Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (1758–1824)
• Oene Bottema (1901–1992)
• William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
• Alexander Yershov (1818–1867)
• Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926–2006)
• Kurt Hain (1908–1995)
• Heron of Alexandria (c. 10–85 AD)
• Willibald Lichtenheldt (1901–1980)
• Xian-Zhou Liu (1890–1975)
• Giulio Mozzi (1730–1813)
• Théodore Olivier (1793–1853)
• Ufimtsev anatoly georgievich (1880–1936)
• James Watt (1736–1819)
• Walter Wunderlich (1910–1998).