A Brief History of Mechanical Engineering

• Main Authors: Dixit, Uday Shanker (Author), Hazarika, Manjuri (Author), Davim, J. Paulo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Technology.; Engineering > Vocational guidance.; Mechanical engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Technology.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.

What is mechanical engineering? What a mechanical engineering does? How did the mechanical engineering change through ages? What is the future of mechanical engineering? This book answers these questions in a lucid manner. It also provides a brief chronological history of landmark events and answers...

Table of Contents:

• What is Mechanical Engineering
• Landmark Revolutionary Inventions in Mechanical Engineering
• History of Mechanics
• History of Thermodynamics
• Manufacturing
• Emergence of Production and Industrial Engineering
• History of Mechatronics
• Future of Mechanical Engineering.