Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms

Preface.- Aspects of the cost-effectiveness ofrestoration process of the F. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Daria Spasskaya andNatalia Terehova.- Application of rapid prototyping technology for modeling theF. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Maxim Vlasov and Marina Samoylova.- Protoepistemologyof Mechanical Engineering in Cassiodorus' Variae or Mission Impossible atTheoderic's Court, by Nadia Ambrosetti.- The Silk Mill "alla Bolognese", by CristianaBartolomei and Alfonso Ippolito.- Robotsin History: Legends and Prototypes from Ancient Times to the IndustrialRevolution, by  Alessandro Gasparetto.- TheFirst Hundred Years of Mechanism Science at RWTH Aachen University, by BurkhardCorves.- Mock-Up of an Eighteenth-Century Oil Mill via Rapid-Prototyping, byJ.C. Montes, Rafael Lopez-Garcia, Ruben Dorado-Vicente and Francisco JavierTrujillo Vilches.- An Introduction to the Ancient Mechanical Wind-instrumentAutomata, by Yu-Hsun Chen, Jian-Liang Lin and Hong-Sen Yan.- DynamicReconstruction of a Colonial Mexican Mechanism, by Juan Carlos Jauregui andGabriela Rodriguez-Zahar.- Leibniz'sDevelopments of Machine Science, by Agamenon Oliveira.- On the Mechanics ofLiving Nature in the Works of V. P. Goryachkin, by Vera Chinenova.- TheTransformation of the Largest Aircraft Factory of Romania in Tractors Factoryas Result of the Soviet Occupation, by  HoriaSalca and Dan Savescu.- New Trends in Learning through 3D modeling ofHistorical Mechanism's Model, by Olga Egorova, Kirill Samsonov and AlexandraSevryukova.- Some Inventions by Engineers of the Hellenistic Age, by CesareRossi.- DING Gongchen, by Baichun Zhang and Yexin Liu.- Lewis Mumford revisited,by Teun Koestier.- Analysis of Structure, Kinematic and 3D Modeling ofFerguson's Mechanisms, by Valentin Tarabarin and Alexey Kozov.- 19th Century String Models at CornellUniversity: Ruled Surfaces in Gear Design, by Francis Moon and John Abel.- Mechanismof Laoguanshan Pattern Looms from Late 2nd Century BCE, Chengdu, China, by FengZhao, Yi