Essays On The History Of Mechanical Engineering

Author : Francesco Sorge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319226800
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering written by Francesco Sorge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years. The various sections deal with some eminent scientists of the past, with the history of industrial installations, machinery and transport, with the human inventiveness for mechanical and scientific devices, and with robots and human-driven automata. All chapters have been written by experts in their fields. The volume shows a wide-ranging panorama on the historical progress of scientific and technical knowledge in the past centuries. It will stimulate new research and ideas for those involved in the history of Science and Technology.

Author : Thomas H Fehring
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States written by Thomas H Fehring and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading contributors of historical articles to ME over the past fifty years was Fritz Hirschfeld. In preparation for the United States' bicentennial year in 1976, the editors of Mechanical Engineering contracted with engineer-historian Hirschfeld for a series of articles on the county's early engineering history. Just a few years later, as the Society was nearing its centennial in 1880, the editors again turned to Hirschfeld and asked him to write a series of articles about the founding of ASME and important early mechanical engineers. Hirschfeld's articles, collected here, provide the foundation for the early portion of this volume. Building upon Hirschfeld's foundation, we selected a wide assortment of other articles about aspects of mechanical engineering history in the United States from the Revolutionary War until recent times. We largely limited our selections to those articles published in Mechanical Engineering magazine during the last fifty years (i.e., 1971-2021). Even for this period, the volume does not include all such articles due to limitations in length and editorial judgments. For instance, some articles duplicated coverage of specific events or innovations. In such cases we picked what we deemed the best, or most comprehensive of overlapping articles. We also decided to focus this volume on the history of mechanical engineering in America. We thus excluded articles on historical developments largely occurring outside the United States. At some future time, we may "harvest" both pre-1971 ME articles and unselected post-1971 articles, as well as articles focusing on non-American mechanical engineering achievements, for a separate collection or collections. Of the more than seventy articles collected in this volume, well over ninety per cent were drawn from issues of ME published during the past fifty years. Five pieces, however, were drawn from outside that chronological limit or from other sources. We have, for example, included a 1933 biographical article from ME about American engineer George H. Corliss. Corliss's innovations in the design and manufacture of steam engines and related devices helped establish the United States as a major player in the manufacture of prime movers. Corliss was considered by his contemporaries to be such a significant figure in mechanical engineering circles in the United States that we elected to include him. He was, after all, asked to serve as the first president of ASME-an offer which he declined. A second exception is another biographical article, one on Edwin Reynolds, a significant steam engine designer. It was authored by Thomas Fehring, one of the editors of this volume. Reynolds worked for a time for the Corliss Steam Engine Company, as did other notable American engineers such as Erasmus Darwin Leavitt (second president of ASME) and Alexander L. Holley (one of the founders of the Society), before moving to Allis-Chalmers. Reynolds made significant improvements in steam engine design. He was president of ASME in 1902-03, and three of his steam engines have been designated as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks by the Society.

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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machines, devices, and systems that have touched our lives, both intimately and for the public good, are often unheralded inventions that we take for granted or never even see. Fortunately, they claim landmark recognition by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which now makes these engineering marvels accessible to teachers and students, travelers, researchers, and the curious. The 135 historic mechanical engineering landmarks in this book represent the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years - from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). This roster of landmarks tells a magnificent story of people and places and of innovation and discovery.

Author : Aubrey Frederick Burstall
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ISBN 13 : 9780571047079
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mechanical Engineering written by Aubrey Frederick Burstall and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas H Fehring
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ISBN 13 : 9780791884843
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States written by Thomas H Fehring and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time it was organized in 1880, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recorded aspects of the history of the mechanical engineering profession and the careers of some of its notable practitioners. The Society's historical efforts were formalized in 1971 with the creation of a History and Heritage Committee. This volume commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of that committee and collects, in a single place, many of the historical contributions published over the past fifty years in ASME's flagship magazine, Mechanical Engineering. In preparation for the United States' bicentennial year, and later the Society's centennial, the editors of Mechanical Engineering contracted with engineer-historian Fritz Hirschfeld for a long series of articles about the county's early mechanical engineering heritage and the lives of notable mechanical engineers, particularly those associated with ASME's founding. Hirschfeld's articles form the foundation of this volume. To supplement Hirschfeld's work, the editors have added numerous other historical articles published in Mechanical Engineering. The engineering innovations described by these articles have been enormously important to the development of modern technological society, and the stories behind their development should be of interest to engineers interested in the history of their profession, as well as anyone interested in American history.

Author : Aubrey Frederic Burstall
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ISBN 13 : 9780262520010
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book A History of Mechanical Engineering written by Aubrey Frederic Burstall and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin T. Layton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book History of Heat Transfer written by Edwin T. Layton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
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Download or read book Mechanical Engineering written by American Society of Mechanical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of the American society of mechanical engineers. Preliminary report of the committee on Society history," issued from time to time, beginning with v. 30, Feb. 1908.

Author : Uday Shanker Dixit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319429167
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book A Brief History of Mechanical Engineering written by Uday Shanker Dixit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 questions such as: When was steam engine invented? Where was first CNC machine developed? When did the era of additive manufacturing start? When did the marriage of mechanical and electronics give birth to discipline of mechatronics? This book informs and create interest on mechanical engineering in the general public and particular in students. It also helps to sensitize the engineering fraternity about the historical aspects of engineering. At the same time, it provides a common sense knowledge of mechanical engineering in a handy manner.

Author : A.F. Burstall
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A HISTORY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. written by A.F. Burstall and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: