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.
Preface; Section I History of Institutions: A Social Network Model for
Innovation in Early Aviation History, by Francis Moon.- Franz Reuleaux and
the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory, by Reinhard Braune and Burkhard
Corves.- The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2nd Half
of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries, by Vera Chinenova, Alexander
Golovin and Irina Tyulina.- Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown
during the 18th and 19th Centuries: an Approach to European
Industrialization, by Javier Echįvarri Otero, E. De La Guerra Ochoa, E.
Chacón Tanarro, J. L. Muńoz Sanz, E. Bautista Paz, A. Dķaz Lantada and J. R.
Įlvarez.- The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European
Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, by Michela
Cigola.- Section II Biographical Contributions: Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of
the Striking Clepsydra During the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon, by Nam
Moon-Hyon.- Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen, by Burhard
Corves.- About Karl Hoecken and Some of his Works on Mechanisms, by Hanfried
Kerle.- Gioacchino Russo a Versatile Scientist, by Francesco Petrone and
Viviana Russo.- Applied Mechanics: the Information Sheets of Professor Leonid
Smirnov, by Alexander Golovin and Anastacia Golovina.- Konstantin Frolov
Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS, by Olga Egorova and Gennady A
Timofeev.- Francisc Viliam Kovįcs - Leader in the Development of Mechanisms
and Robotics in Romania, by Erwin Christian Lovasz, Dan Perju, Inocentiu
Maniu, Corneliu Radulescu and Valentin Ciupe.- Section III History of
Technical Systems: An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of
Alexandria's On Automaton Making" , by Finlay Mccourt.- The Mystery of the
Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople, by Junichi Takeno andYoshihiko
Takeno.- Structural Synthesis of The Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Cross
Bow, by Kuo-Hung Hsiao and Hong-Sen Yan.- Clocks and Dials with Automata: The
Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya, by Helen Fragaki.- The Drawings of Machines by the
Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, by Emanuela Chiavoni.-
Historical Watermills for Cereal Grinding: Cultural Heritages in Aterno
Valley, by Romolo Continenza and Stefano Brusaporci.- Section IV History of
Technical Systems: The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism, by Michael
Wright.- Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: the Town
Hall Clock of Alcalį la Real, Jaén (Spain), by Rafael López-Garcķa, Ivįn
Dįvila-Rufiįn and Rubén Dorado-Vicente.- Improbable Mechanics: a Short
History of Fake Automata, by Nadia Ambrosetti.- Centrifugal Governors, the
Story of a Mistake, by Max Sakharov and Valentin Tarabarin.- The Anahuac
Propeller: a Century After, by J. Romero-N, C. Lopez-C, A. Colin-R and M.
Arroyo-C .- The Rotary Aero Engine from1908-1918 , by Giuseppe Genchi and
Francesco Sorge .- Section V History of Technical systems: The Historical
Development of Catrasys, a Cable System , by Marco Ceccarelli .- A
Contribution on the History of Ropeways, by K. Hoffmann and N Zrnic.- The
First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Teslas
Principles, by Svetislav Markovi, Tatjana Lazovi, Ljubica Milovi and
Bratislav Stojiljkovi.- Teslas Research in the Field of Mechanical
Engineering Focused on Fountains Design, by Aleksandar Marinkovi, Nenad
Zrni, Bratislav Stojiljkovi and Milan Vulicevi.- Mechanical Models for
Anti-Rhomb Linkage, by Simona Mariana Cretu, Gigi Dragos Ciocioi-Troaca, Emil
Soarece and Eugen Marian Paun .- History of Human Powered Threshing Machines,
by K. S. Zakiuddin, H. V.Sondawale, J. P. Modak and M. Ceccarelli .- Section
VI Concepts and Theories: At the Origins of the Concepts of Mįthema and
Mekhané: Aristotles Mekhaniką and Archimedes' Tropos Mekhanikņs, by Giuseppe
Boscarino.- Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean
Trattato di Fortificazione, by Raffaele Pisano and Danilo Capecchi.- Poncelet
and the Development of Applied Mechanics, by Agamenon Oliveira .- The Case of
Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline, by Teun Koetsier.- Cognate Linkages:
the Roberts-Chebyshev Theorem , by Egbert Verstraten.- The Work of Otto
Fischer and the Historical Development of his Method of Principle Vectors for
Mechanism and Machine Science, by Volkert Van Der Wijk and Just L. Herder.-
3D Overconstrained Linkages - The Lost Jade , by Yan Chen and You Zhong.-
Designing, Analysis and Computer Modelling of Straight Line Mechanisms, by
Valentin Tarabarin, Z. Tarabarina and D. Chirkina.
