Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery

• Main Author: Yan, Hong-Sen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: History Of Mechanism And Machine Science, 3
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Mechanical engineering.; Machinery.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; History of Science.; Mechanical Engineering.

Ancient China was outstanding in mechanical technology before the 15th century. Numerous ingenious machines were invented. However, due to incomplete documentation and loss of finished objects, most of the original machines cannot be verified and many of the inventions did not pass down to later gen...