Part 1. Section I: History of Institutions -- A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History / Francis C. Moon -- Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory / Reinhard Braune and Burkhard Corves -- The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2nd Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century / Vera Chinenova, Alexander Golovin and Irina Tyulina -- Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18th and 19th Centuries: An Approach to European Industrialisation / Javier Echávarri Otero, E. de la Guerra Ochoa, E. Chacón Tanarro, J.L. Muñoz Sanz and E. Bautista Paz, et al. -- The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries / Michela Cigola.

Part 2. Section II: Biographical Contributions -- Jang Yeong-sil 蔣英實: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra during the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon / Nam Moon-hyon -- Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen / Burkhard Corves -- About Karl Hoecken and Some of His Works on Mechanisms / Hanfried Kerle -- Gioacchino Russo -- A Versatile Scientist / Francesco Petrone and Viviana Russo -- Applied Mechanics: The Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov / Alexander Golovin and Anastacia Golovina -- Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science) / Olga V. Egorova and Gennady A. Timofeev -- Francisc Viliam Kovács -- Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania / Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Dan Perju, Inocenţiu Maniu, Corneliu Rădulescu and Valentin Ciupe.

Part 3. Section III: History of Technical Systems -- An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton-Making / Finlay McCourt -- The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople / Junichi Takeno and Yoshihiko Takeno -- Structural Synthesis of the Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Crossbow / Kuo-Hung Hsiao and Hong-Sen Yan -- Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya / Helen Fragaki -- The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras / Emanuela Chiavoni -- Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley (Italy): Historical Watermills for Cereals Grinding / Romolo Continenza and Stefano Brusaporci.

Part 4. Section IV: History of Technical Systems -- The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism / Michael T. Wright -- The Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: The Town Hall Clock of Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Spain) / López-García Rafael, Dávila-Rufián Iván and Dorado-Vicente Rubén -- Improbable Mechanics: A Short History of Fake Automata / Nadia Ambrosetti -- Centrifugal Governors: The Story of a Mistake / Max Sakharov and Valentin Tarabarin -- The Anahuac Propeller: A Century after / J. Romero-N, C. López-C, A. Colín-R and M. Arroyo-C -- The Rotary Aero Engine from 1908 to 1918 / Giuseppe Genchi and Francesco Sorge.

Part 5. Section V: History of Technical Systems -- The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System / Marco Ceccarelli -- A Contribution on the History of Ropeways / K. Hoffmann and Nenad Zrnić -- The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla's Principles / Svetislav Marković, Tatjana Lazović, Ljubica Milović and Bratislav Stojiljković -- Tesla's Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design / Aleksandar Marinković, Nenad Zrnić, Bratislav Stojiljković and Milan Vulićević -- Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage / Simona-Mariana Cretu, Gigi-Dragos Ciocioi-Troaca, Emil Soarece and Eugen Marian Paun -- History of Human Powered Threshing Machines: A Literature Review / K.S. Zakiuddin, H.V. Sondawale, J.P. Modak and Marco Ceccarelli.

Part 6. Section VI: Concepts and Theories -- At the Origins of the Concepts of Máthema and Mekhané: Aristotle's Mekhanikà and Archimedes' Tropos Mekhanikòs / Giuseppe Boscarino -- Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato Di Fortificazione / Raffaele Pisano and Danilo Capecchi -- Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics / Agamenon R.E. Oliveira -- The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline / Teun Koetsier -- Cognate Linkages the Roberts -- Chebyshev Theorem / Egbert Verstraten -- The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of His Method of Principal Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science / Volkert van der Wijk and Just L. Herder -- Spatial Overconstrained Linkages-The Lost Jade / Yan Chen and Zhong You -- Designing, Analysis and Computer Modeling of Straight-Line Mechanisms / Valentin Tarabarin, Z. Tarabarina and D. Chirkina -- The Transmission of the European Clock-Making Technology into China in the 17th-18th Centuries / Baichun Zhang -- DMG-Lib -- An Open Access Digital Library as an Exploration Tool for Historians and Engineers / Torsten Brix, Rike Brecht, Veit Henkel and Michael Reeßing.

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.

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Preface -- Aspects of the cost-effectiveness of restoration process of the F. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Daria Spasskaya and Natalia Terehova -- Application of rapid prototyping technology for modeling the F. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Maxim Vlasov and Marina Samoylova -- Protoepistemology of Mechanical Engineering in Cassiodorus' Variae or Mission Impossible at Theoderic's Court, by Nadia Ambrosetti -- The Silk Mill "alla Bolognese", by Cristiana Bartolomei and Alfonso Ippolito -- Robots in History: Legends and Prototypes from Ancient Times to the Industrial Revolution, by Alessandro Gasparetto -- The First Hundred Years of Mechanism Science at RWTH Aachen University, by Burkhard Corves -- Mock-Up of an Eighteenth-Century Oil Mill via Rapid-Prototyping, by J.C. Montes, Rafael Lopez-Garcia, Ruben Dorado-Vicente and Francisco Javier Trujillo Vilches -- An Introduction to the Ancient Mechanical Wind-instrument Automata, by Yu-Hsun Chen, Jian-Liang Lin and Hong-Sen Yan -- Dynamic Reconstruction of a Colonial Mexican Mechanism, by Juan Carlos Jauregui and Gabriela Rodriguez-Zahar -- Leibniz's Developments of Machine Science, by Agamenon Oliveira -- On the Mechanics of Living Nature in the Works of V. P. Goryachkin, by Vera Chinenova -- The Transformation of the Largest Aircraft Factory of Romania in Tractors Factory as Result of the Soviet Occupation, by Horia Salca and Dan Savescu -- New Trends in Learning through 3D modeling of Historical Mechanism's Model, by Olga Egorova, Kirill Samsonov and Alexandra Sevryukova -- Some Inventions by Engineers of the Hellenistic Age, by Cesare Rossi -- DING Gongchen, by Baichun Zhang and Yexin Liu -- Lewis Mumford revisited, by Teun Koestier -- Analysis of Structure, Kinematic and 3D Modeling of Ferguson's Mechanisms, by‏ Valentin Tarabarin and Alexey Kozov -- 19th Century String Models at Cornell University: Ruled Surfaces in Gear Design, by Francis Moon and John Abel -- Mechanism of Laoguanshan Pattern Looms from Late 2nd Century BCE, Chengdu, China, by Feng Zhao, Yi Wang, Qun Luo, Bo Long, Baichun Zhang, Yingchong Xia and Tao Xie -- On the battleship by Ansaldo for Chinese Imperial Navy, by Yibing Fang and Marco Ceccarelli -- Dynamic Analysis of an Ancient Tilt-Hammer, by Umberto Meneghetti -- An Analysis of Micro Scratches on Typical Southern Chinese Bronzes - A case study of Crawler-pattern Nao and Chugong Ge, Lie Sun.

This volume includes contributions presented at the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms, held at Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, QRO, Mexico, in June 2016. It contains work on theories and facts concerning mechanisms and machines from antiquity to current times as viewed in the present day. Topics include modern reviews of past works; people, history, and their works; direct memories of the recent past; historic development theories; the history of the design of machines and mechanisms; developments of mechanical design and automation; the historic development of teaching; the history of schools of engineering and the education of engineers.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31184-5

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