Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms Proceedings of HMM2012 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koetsier, Teun (Editor), Ceccarelli, Marco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 15
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Machinery.; Materials science.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; History of Science.; Materials Science, general.
• Physical Description: XVIII, 594 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400741324
• ISSN: 1875-3442 ;

This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). These proceedings cover recent research concerning all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present and its historiography: machines, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, concepts and theories, design methods, collections of methods, collections of models, institutions and biographies.