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Section I History of Institutions |
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A Social Network Model for Innovation in Early Aviation History |
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3 | (18) |
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Franz Reuleaux and the Rhenish Roots of Mechanism Theory |
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21 | (18) |
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The Birth of the Moscow School of Applied Mechanics in the 2nd Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century |
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39 | (16) |
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Royal Manufactures Promoted by the Spanish Crown during the 18th and 19th Centuries: An Approach to European Industrialisation |
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55 | (14) |
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The Influence of the Society of Jesus on the Spread of European Mechanical Knowledge in China in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries |
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69 | (14) |
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Section II Biographical Contributions |
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Jang Yeong-sil: Inventor of the Striking Clepsydra during the Reign of King Sejong in Joseon |
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83 | (24) |
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Kurt Rauh: Saxon Mechanism Theory Brought to Aachen |
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107 | (16) |
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About Karl Hoecken and Some of His Works on Mechanisms |
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123 | (12) |
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Gioacchino Russo - A Versatile Scientist |
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135 | (10) |
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Applied Mechanics: The Information Sheets of Professor Leonid Smirnov |
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145 | (14) |
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Konstantin Frolov Continuing the Soviet School Traditions on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science) |
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159 | (12) |
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Francisc Viliam Kovacs - Leader in the Development of Mechanisms and Robotics in Romania |
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171 | (14) |
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Section III History of Technical Systems |
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An Examination of the Mechanisms of Movement in Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton Making |
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185 | (14) |
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The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople |
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199 | (14) |
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Structural Synthesis of the Ancient Chinese Zhuge Repeating Crossbow |
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213 | (16) |
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Clocks and Dials with Automata: The Mosaic of Qasr El-Lebya |
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229 | (22) |
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The Drawings of Machines by the Great Architects of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras |
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251 | (10) |
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Cultural Heritages in Aterno Valley (Italy): Historical Watermills for Cereals Grinding |
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261 | (18) |
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Section IV History of Technical Systems |
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The Front Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism |
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279 | (14) |
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The Historical-Technological Study of Monumental Tower Clocks: The Town Hall Clock of Alcala la Real, Jaen (Spain) |
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293 | (16) |
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Improbable Mechanics: A Short History of Fake Automata |
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309 | (14) |
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Centrifugal Governors: The Story of a Mistake |
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323 | (14) |
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The Anahuac Propeller: A Century after |
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337 | (12) |
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The Rotary Aero Engine from 1908 to 1918 |
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349 | (16) |
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Section V History of Technical Systems |
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The Historical Development of Catrasys, a Cable System |
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365 | (16) |
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A Contribution on the History of Ropeways |
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381 | (14) |
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The First Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Balkans Built on the Basis of Tesla's Principles |
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395 | (12) |
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Tesla's Research in the Field of Mechanical Engineering Focused on Fountains Design |
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407 | (14) |
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Mechanical Models for Anti-Rhomb Linkage |
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421 | (10) |
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Gigi-Dragos Ciocioi-Troaca |
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History of Human Powered Threshing Machines: A Literature Review |
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431 | (18) |
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Section VI Concepts and Theories |
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At the Origins of the Concepts of Mathema and Mekhane: Aristotle's Mekhanika and Archimedes' Tropos Mekhanikos |
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449 | (14) |
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Historical Reflections on the Scale Ratio in the Galilean Trattato Di Fortificazione |
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463 | (12) |
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Poncelet and the Development of Applied Mechanics |
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475 | (16) |
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The Case of Kinematics, the Genesis of a Discipline |
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491 | (14) |
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Cognate Linkages the Roberts - Chebyshev Theorem |
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505 | (16) |
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The Work of Otto Fischer and the Historical Development of His Method of Principal Vectors for Mechanism and Machine Science |
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521 | (14) |
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Spatial Overconstrained Linkages---The Lost Jade |
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535 | (16) |
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Designing, Analysis and Computer Modeling of Straight-Line Mechanisms |
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551 | (14) |
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The Transmission of the European Clock-Making Technology into China in the 17th-18th Centuries |
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565 | (14) |
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DMG-Lib - An Open Access Digital Library as an Exploration Tool for Historians and Engineers |
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579 | (14) |
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Author Index |
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